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I will go to my grave thinking that we'd have never locked down for COVID back in the 80s, 90s and even 00s. Matter of fact we didn't lockdown in the early 00s
by GDC7 5y ago
I will go to my grave thinking that we'd have never locked down for COVID back in the 80s, 90s and even 00s.
Matter of fact we didn't lockdown in the early 00s for SARS.
Further it seems to me that the progress in prolonging human lifespan and the collapsing levels of interpersonal violence are not worth it if the price to pay is constantly living in fear.
Whether we like it or not we must admit that the self -confidence and arrogance that causes a bar brawl comes from the same part of the brain that compels people to publish their long odds theory of everything or a moon shot company.
Which is incidentally the same part of the brain which gives people the arrogance to think that COVID is a nothingburger and they'd never catch it , and if they ever catch it they'd never die from it.
People thought that the castration of Western society would have been a free lunch. There is no free lunch out there.
- lnxg33k1 5y agoI think maybe you need a reminder of the numbers of SARS for your statements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbrea...
- GDC7 5y agoIt's not about the numbers as much as it is about the state of mind of those who read them. People are extremely scared about everything nowadays. There have been thousands of COVID like viruses in the history of civiliaztion and they aren't even recorded because it's a rounding error in the metric that matters the most but that nobody wants to use: Months trimmed off the life expectancy of the deceased (ex-COVID)
- lnxg33k1 5y agoI don't agree with you, as italian we read for example in school a story I think is also famous in other parts of the world, "I promessi sposi" like it's translated as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrothed_(Manzoni_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrothed_(Manzoni_novel), and there are described at a certain point confinements for the plague, also I've read about confined city for epidemics of smallpox, so I don't think it is about modern society, I think it's more about the numbers and death rate of disease..
- denton-scratch 5y ago> Months trimmed off the life expectancy of the deceased (ex-COVID) Huh? Isn't the life-expectancy of the deceased zero?