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Because even if a lot of people are OK and only a few die, those "few" still add up to hundreds of thousands dead people, when the entire population gets infect
by brazzy 5y ago
Because even if a lot of people are OK and only a few die, those "few" still add up to hundreds of thousands dead people, when the entire population gets infected. Which sure sounds like a good reason to get hysterical. To say nothing of the issue of a catastrophically overtaxed health system and what side effects that will have.
- argiopetech 5y agoFrom the top-down, metrics focused perspective, I agree. From an individual, bottom-up perspective, most people don't have a high risk of death from COVID. The majority will avoid spreading any disease to others, usually by self-enforced quarantine. Some individuals will die, but all of us will die of something some day and we should come up peace with that. The only top-down mitigation to death of a specific cause is legislation. For an endemic disease, legislation to avoid the spread of that disease must necessarily approach tyranny. I've addressed the overtaxing if the health system I'm reply to a sibling. It is unclear to me that any overtax if the health system (which is, from what I can glean from the CDC limited, in the US, to a few states) is due to COVID directly rather than institutional responses to COVID.
- spookthesunset 5y ago> rather than institutional responses to COVID I bet you a lot of fake internet money that when the fire is out and cooler heads prevail, most of the overtax was institutional responses to COVID. We won't be able to know how true this actually is until years (perhaps decades) after this all calms down. There is simply too much pressure to maintain the current narrative and do true root cause analysis.