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It's 2023 and we're still making attempts at discrediting covid deaths? Wow. The economy was not "destroyed" nor were childrens' lives. You know what was dest
by earthling8118 3y ago
It's 2023 and we're still making attempts at discrediting covid deaths? Wow.
The economy was not "destroyed" nor were childrens' lives.
You know what was destroyed? One of my loved one's sense of smell. And it was definitely covid's doing. I could never call that "functionally zero" risk. We're talking one of the few senses people have and it can be gone with no hope. You might not value that much but I don't want to deny anyone their senses.
Trading the lives and senses of anyone to watch numbers go up in a spreadsheet is despicable.
- arp242 3y ago> Trading the lives and senses of anyone to watch numbers go up in a spreadsheet is despicable. Yet this is what we all do every day, from traffic to food safety, to public spending on health care, etc. These sort of trade-offs exist everywhere. Every single time you take a flight or step in a car you are literally contributing to the death of people. None of this is hugely controversial, except ... in the case of COVID. And it's not about "numbers", during great economic recessions quality of life does decline, sometimes greatly so. IMHO "destroy the economy", "destroy the lives of children", etc. is hugely overstating matters, but it did have a negative impact on many aspects. Were lockdowns a good or bad trade-off? You can reasonably disagree on that. But to deny the trade-off exists in the first place is unhelpful.