When someone suffers a personal loss it is a tragedy so prayers for those in his family negatively affected by the Coronavirus.
That being said my opinion has not changed one bit. This overblown hype to take our freedoms away. Just as when a black man is killed by the police it is somehow more of a “crime” than when a white man is killed by police, we have a situation where anyone killed by Coronavirus is more of a tragedy than any other type of death. I know relatives who died from the flu a few years ago...I didn’t advocate for losing personal liberties as a result of that.
Good for you and thanks for acknowledging that this isn't the flu.
I think we can separate what a proper response from government should look like from the actual impact of the disease itself. I’m no fan of mandates, lockdowns, shutdowns, etc., but I also acknowledge that COVID-19 has killed many Americans and continues to do so.
I don’t advocate for losing personal liberties, and I think that position is only strengthened by accepting the basic facts about what the disease is (and isn’t). There’s hyperbole on both sides, and lost in the middle are the real people impacted both by the virus itself (those afflicted and their families) and by the botched responses from the (mostly Democrat) state governments.