A lot of good people bit hard on this virus hoax. It was rightfully seen early on as a threat. Now, it is obvious that the real threat is the response to it. Anyone still all-in on this thing is malicious or so neurotic that they need help. It’s a flu that is dangerous to people who are really old and/or really fat and/or otherwise sick. It is not very dangerous for anyone else. It’s like all the other flus that we didn’t destroy our civilization for. This is a political matter that is being used to get the #badorangeman and to persecute those who would support him.
My backyard neighbor is late 70s with relatively good health. His younger brother died from the flu last year (2019) and was 76. For all this time of CoVid, he and his wife have gone on about their usual business as much as the lockdown would allow them. His wife, also late 70s, only wears masks when required, and she does the most of the errands, and regularly visits others she knows that are needing help. These are often people in their late 80s and early to mid 90s. None of them have gotten CoVid, but none are in group homes either. They have their own caregivers and she helps them out running errands for them.
I once asked my neighbor early on how she felt about all of the mask wearing and the shutdowns. She says it’s ludicrous, and she added, “I say that as a person who lost a loved one to the flu.” She gets it. She knows, like I do, that while this is a terrible tragedy for those of us losing loved ones to the Wuhan flu, that common sense needs to prevail here. Some people will get sick, some people will need to be hospitalized, and some people will die. That’s just life.
Absolutely correct but try to convince the "We're all gonna die" pearl clutchers here on FR.