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At large, covid was never dangerous to children and (healthy) (non-senior) adults. The fear of whole working populations becoming crippled and unable to work d

At large, covid was never dangerous to children and (healthy) (non-senior) adults. The fear of whole working populations becoming crippled and unable to work due to „long covid“ (mostly just good old PVFS/SEID/CFS) was quickly disproven. Policies never reflected that, disproportionately harming the young mentally, physically and economically. The damaged trust in governments and public health organisations was immense and on an irreparable level. Rightfully so, as for example in Austria, the stationary clerk store had to check my vaccination certificate before selling me a pen.

dailykoder 2y ago
>At large, covid was never dangerous to children and (healthy) (non-senior) adults. We didn't know that in the first place though. We expected it, but I shared the sentiment of better be safe then sorry. At least for 2020. I think after that it got handled extremly badly. I can only speak of germany from personal experience though. While I still can understand _some_ of the decissions made by politics, I think they were communicated very very bad and not discussed openly
- logicchains 2y ago
  We absolutely did know this in the first place; China published detailed mortality data by age group in Wuhan. The media just refused to publish it, fearmongering to the benefit of its aging, at-risk owners.
- switch007 2y ago
  COVID is in a group of viruses with not dissimilar characteristics. It wasn't a completely unknown virus.
  - Izkata 2y ago
    I've maintained for a while the worst thing that happened early on was calling it a "novel coronavirus". In this context, "novel" is medical/scientific jargon that doesn't mean what the average person thinks it means. It should never have made it to the public, because it created a misunderstanding about what was going on. It simply meant "humans haven't encountered this virus before so no one has immunity". Instead the common understanding became "this virus is so different we can't rely on any previous knowledge and have to start from scratch".
    - switch007 2y ago
      They knew what they were doing
      - dent9876543 2y ago
        Yes, I think that's correct. There was an absolute willingness to allow views in support of a fear narrative win through. (No matter their grounding.) The probing/questioning threads were quickly closed down. Some of it was done by the social media companies acting at the direction of the state. But much of it was actioned by military information security units acting against the general population.
Salgat 2y ago
In spite of the rediculous level of precautions society had taken, over a million Americans still died to COVID. Keep in mind at the time the proper procedure to treat COVID was unknown, there was no vaccine which dramatically reduced the risk, and more aggressive and successful treatments such as using antibodies didn't exist either. COVID was without doubt dangerous in the early days of the pandemic.
- franktankbank 2y ago
  > died to COVID *Died with COVID
friend_Fernando 2y ago
This is provably untrue disinformation.
sonofhans 2y ago
You write as if disease communicability isn’t a thing. If every healthy adult gets infected with Covid it’s no big deal, right? Except who will work in hospitals, nursing homes, and grocery stores? Those are all places full of old people who can get easily harmed by this disease. There’s no magic solution to pandemics, only a choice between bad options. “Fuck it, let all the old people die off” never struck me as a reasonable option.

dailykoder 2y ago

>At large, covid was never dangerous to children and (healthy) (non-senior) adults. We didn't know that in the first place though. We expected it, but I shared the sentiment of better be safe then sorry. At least for 2020. I think after that it got handled extremly badly. I can only speak of germany from personal experience though. While I still can understand _some_ of the decissions made by politics, I think they were communicated very very bad and not discussed openly

logicchains 2y ago
We absolutely did know this in the first place; China published detailed mortality data by age group in Wuhan. The media just refused to publish it, fearmongering to the benefit of its aging, at-risk owners.
switch007 2y ago
COVID is in a group of viruses with not dissimilar characteristics. It wasn't a completely unknown virus.
- Izkata 2y ago
  I've maintained for a while the worst thing that happened early on was calling it a "novel coronavirus". In this context, "novel" is medical/scientific jargon that doesn't mean what the average person thinks it means. It should never have made it to the public, because it created a misunderstanding about what was going on. It simply meant "humans haven't encountered this virus before so no one has immunity". Instead the common understanding became "this virus is so different we can't rely on any previous knowledge and have to start from scratch".
  - switch007 2y ago
    They knew what they were doing
    - dent9876543 2y ago
      Yes, I think that's correct. There was an absolute willingness to allow views in support of a fear narrative win through. (No matter their grounding.) The probing/questioning threads were quickly closed down. Some of it was done by the social media companies acting at the direction of the state. But much of it was actioned by military information security units acting against the general population.

Salgat 2y ago

In spite of the rediculous level of precautions society had taken, over a million Americans still died to COVID. Keep in mind at the time the proper procedure to treat COVID was unknown, there was no vaccine which dramatically reduced the risk, and more aggressive and successful treatments such as using antibodies didn't exist either. COVID was without doubt dangerous in the early days of the pandemic.

franktankbank 2y ago
> died to COVID *Died with COVID

friend_Fernando 2y ago

This is provably untrue disinformation.

sonofhans 2y ago

You write as if disease communicability isn’t a thing. If every healthy adult gets infected with Covid it’s no big deal, right? Except who will work in hospitals, nursing homes, and grocery stores? Those are all places full of old people who can get easily harmed by this disease. There’s no magic solution to pandemics, only a choice between bad options. “Fuck it, let all the old people die off” never struck me as a reasonable option.