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The media and government can't be trusted with germ theory. The whole idea that we have control over the virus and that our actions are tantamount to killing p

The media and government can't be trusted with germ theory. The whole idea that we have control over the virus and that our actions are tantamount to killing people with it or not is ludicrous. The virus is going to spread, and its going to kill people. People aren't killing each other. We will all catch covid. The "treatment" has been so much worse than the disease. 5 million died due to covid, but hundreds of millions will die due to the global economy tanking. People acted like we were "sacrificing" lives to the economy, but in reality we were sacrificing children's childhoods for extending the lives of septuagenarians.

defensem3ch 5y ago
hundreds of millions of people will die from the... economy? what? no, i think you got this backwards. nobody is being choked by the invisible hand of the market.
- scoopdewoop 5y ago
  > The coronavirus crisis will push more than a quarter of a billion people to the brink of starvation unless swift action is taken to provide food and humanitarian relief to the most at-risk regions, the UN and other experts have warned. > About 265 million people around the world are forecast to be facing acute food insecurity by the end of this year, a doubling of the 130 million estimated to suffer severe food shortages last year. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/global-hunger-could-be-next-big-impact-of-coronavirus-pandemic https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/global-hunger-... Yeah, I got sources. Cool downvotes, team. Real meeting of the minds on this site. Some brilliant intellectuals here.
  - op00to 5y ago
    Quit being a whiny brat while immediately changing the subject to avoid a weak argument, and maybe you'll get better engagement.
Afforess 5y ago
The existence of and overall success of China's zero covid strategy says you're wrong, human actions can contain it. If your reply is China's data can not be trusted, then Australia or NZ. But same conclusion, we can and should mitigate the virus. Also, the economy is doing fine. Some places better than other, but we're much better off now than in 2009, the last global recession. If this is a crisis, it's milder than the last, from an economic standpoint.
- mythrwy 5y ago
  "Delay" is not "Contain".

defensem3ch 5y ago

hundreds of millions of people will die from the... economy? what? no, i think you got this backwards. nobody is being choked by the invisible hand of the market.

scoopdewoop 5y ago
> The coronavirus crisis will push more than a quarter of a billion people to the brink of starvation unless swift action is taken to provide food and humanitarian relief to the most at-risk regions, the UN and other experts have warned. > About 265 million people around the world are forecast to be facing acute food insecurity by the end of this year, a doubling of the 130 million estimated to suffer severe food shortages last year. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/global-hunger-could-be-next-big-impact-of-coronavirus-pandemic https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/global-hunger-... Yeah, I got sources. Cool downvotes, team. Real meeting of the minds on this site. Some brilliant intellectuals here.
- op00to 5y ago
  Quit being a whiny brat while immediately changing the subject to avoid a weak argument, and maybe you'll get better engagement.

Afforess 5y ago

The existence of and overall success of China's zero covid strategy says you're wrong, human actions can contain it. If your reply is China's data can not be trusted, then Australia or NZ. But same conclusion, we can and should mitigate the virus. Also, the economy is doing fine. Some places better than other, but we're much better off now than in 2009, the last global recession. If this is a crisis, it's milder than the last, from an economic standpoint.

mythrwy 5y ago
"Delay" is not "Contain".