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>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

>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.

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.