Ping!
The NHS will not be happy...
Big Pharma hardest hit.............
I’ll take that photo over your Goebbels photo any day. This folks look...happy.
If you want to know what we should do, watch this. Its an Oxford, Stanford and Harvard group of professors of public health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz_Z7Gf1aRE
This is science. But CNN and even Youtube, act like it does not exist.
The resistance of many to embracing the concept of “herd immunity” is not surprising. It isn’t just the conflict between a non-battlefield medical point of view that means everyone must be saved all the time everywhere and an executive view that choices must be made (more of a battlefield triage) and that the choice between destroying an economy and/or industry and creating misery on a large scale due to poverty and hunger outweighs the number of lives that might be saved by draconian measures.
I have been writing lately of the unpleasant tendency in our society (fostered almost entirely by the Left) to REQUIRE all people be “safe” all the time, in everything.
What you eat. You can’t eat things that are bad from you. Outlaw sugary drinks. Tax alcohol and tobacco. Mandate nutrition information.
What you see. You can’t see a statue. You can’t see a flag. You can’t watch a video someone else doesn’t agree with. You can’t view a sign that offends someone.
What you hear. Hearing hateful or stupid people is discouraged and outlawed. De-platform those whose opinions are thought to be bad. Shut down campus discourse at a lecture. People cannot have their feelings hurt, no matter if what hurts them is the truth.
What you do. Don’t drive without a seatbelt. Wear a helmet. Ban monkey bars. Make safety regulations so onerous that products become so expensive people won’t buy or use them.
It is all interrelated.
But most of all, it becomes a Manichean choice between accepting that WE as humans control EVERYTHING that happens to us, and accepting that Nature (God) has a hand it it.
This is a most difficult conflict for Leftists who believe Man is God.
Compare a state’s result to Sweden, such as Louisiana.
Sweden, with a population of 10 million, had 94,000 cases and 5900 deaths.
Louisiana, with a population of 4.6 million, had 169,000 cases and 5600 deaths - with intense and current lockdowns.
What would have been the outcome for Louisiana if they remained open? Would they have had that second spike or would the herd immunity have protected them more?
Since we know that the disease is deadly only to those with compromised health conditions, it would seem that herd immunity is the better policy.
Told ‘ya. I proposed this approach a couple of months ago on a popular social media site where I was severely criticised for a lack of compassion and understanding.