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> This sounds alot like the excuses for not taking action against COVID-19 which we hear over and over again. Not sure where this theory of inaction against Co
by logicalmonster 4y ago
> This sounds alot like the excuses for not taking action against COVID-19 which we hear over and over again.
Not sure where this theory of inaction against Covid-19 comes from.
Actually, the world took quite a lot of action against Covid-19: forced masks, economic shutdowns, vaccines to keep your job, quarantines and isolation, preventing travel, preventing hospital visits and even funerals, mandating testing, and even blocking treatments for many actual health problems, and many more uncountable illogical and monstrous things.
I just had an acquaintance who had a desperately needed cancer surgery delayed for 2 weeks due to a false Covid-19 test. We're still dealing with lives ruined by this utter nonsense.
> I know there are pensioners who find meaning in life from looking for any evidence that the government made some mistake or may make some mistake about handling COVID-19.
When it comes to the massive loss in freedom, economic devastation, deaths directly caused by government actions, careers and job losses and other ruin caused by government policies, and possibly leading up to the destruction of the economy and resulting in many millions (if not billions of) deaths, our precious government officials should feel lucky that the least that happens to them is the mildest little criticism from an upset pensioner.
> The outcome of that situation, quite depressingly, is that the next crisis is going to be harder to handle.
On this, we agree with each other, albeit probably for different reasons. For me, it's the boy-who-cried-wolf effect to keep in mind. A large segment of the population will not trust what the government/media tell them on health matters ever again. All social capital and trust was wasted on a cold with a very high survival rate for most people. Not the smartest move. If there's ever a real dangerous pandemic, many people will not believe it.