[independentmind]

Good post.

I agree with you about the quality of commentary available on twitter.

I am frankly astounded at some of what is being said here on FR. It is hard not to characterize it as stupidity or willful ignorance, at this point.

[nerdgirl]

Thanks :)

I’m going to go with stupidity.

At this point it’s becoming somewhat survival of the fittest, where the most mediocre minds are just unable to process the idea of an exponential process, which is why they say things like “we’ve had XX,XXX flu deaths and nobody cares...”

They cannot grasp that however many deaths the flu causes, it doesn’t have the ability to add 2 places to that number, and covid19 does.

Another things to remember is that supposedly nearly 80% of the flu deaths are people who chose not to vaccinate. That may be off, but one can at least accept that a hefty portion of the flu deaths did not vaccinate. That’s a choice.

Nobody can make that choice here - so there will be no “avoidable” deaths other than the ones caused by the testing debacle, and the complacent attitudes that will also lead to additional deaths.