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From 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
by argiopetech 5y ago
From 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.