Coronavirus is not polio which is a crippling disease that incurs a life of costs, treatment, disability, and pain because it disproportionally strikes young children who have yet to live their lives.
My point is not that government has no role in these things. My point is that government's role in THIS, a pathogen that has a small mortality rate disproportionally weighted towards the elderly, was completely mishandled, and done so deliberately for political reasons, in my opinion.
yikes, previous post typos from microphone conversion.
The problem with political over-reaction as a theory is that the reaction has been global.
Another friend of mine thinks in terms of life-years lost. Yes, it’s the elderly. But in today’s world an 85 year old has a life expectancy of 6 yrs. It’s not as if the virus is just chopping a few weeks off someone about to die regardless. They had 6 more years of sunrises and knowing their grandchildren ahead of them.
There was a theory floating around in summer that the elderly dying then were just being pulled forward a few months from winter and winter would see many fewer deaths. That one didn’t work out. Pre covid, the elderly die in far greater numbers in winter than summer, and that got amplified post covid.
There is one last fly in the government measures ointment. 80% of deaths have been 65+. 20% have been under 65. Those are not trivial death counts.
My point is that government’s role in THIS, a pathogen that has a small mortality rate disproportionally weighted towards the elderly, was completely mishandled, and done so deliberately for political reasons, in my opinion.
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Definitely agree with you on this...
According to the initial 15 day test period that ALL would be well is anyone over 65 or so locked themselves away from the rest of the world...etc etc etc
I ‘joked’ that I had a fauxi ID saying I was 62...
In the intial diagnosis, if it was correct, I AM DEAD.
I don’t/won’t/can’t wear the mask and I also have a built in ‘contempt’ as having survived TB in the 40s, Polio in the 50s, in 1957 in the middle of a WORLD PANDEMIC for Asian Flu, I was aboard a ship that sailed from San Diego to ASIA and the only social distancing we had on the old APA was NONE.
Through in the other chicken little incidents etc and the fact that unless USN snuck one or two in I have NEVER taken the flu shot and don’t intend to start with this crap.
Lest ‘the sky is falling crowd’ thinks I am insensitive to your needs, when I tried to keep people at ‘arms length’ I was considered anti social for not believing in hugs and avoiding handshakes whenever possible.
Also, I have enough common sense that I will NOT go out and mingle if I am ‘sick’.
BTW both my mother and father were RNs and worked in sanitariums and state hospitals in the 40s & 50s so I guess there was a good chance of them ‘bringing it home.