I think you're vastly underestimating the damage these covid measures have caused and are causing. Psychological damage. Economic damage. Jobs lost, children's education wildly disrupted. Humans are extremely social creatures, it's extremely bad for people's health and well-being to be locked away from one another. Massive amounts of elected surgeries and hospital visits delayed while hospitals remain open and unused, waiting for covid patients. How many people will have missed crucial visits that would have caught cancer earlier, as an example.
Then you have the extreme amount of nonsense that has come out from experts the entire time. Models that are wildly off, expert suggestions that contradict each other every few weeks. Social media platforms that ban discussion as conspiratorial one week because it goes against cdc and who guidelines, and the next week, cdc and who guidelines change to take that position.
Then you have the numbers. Even if it is as bad as the numbers bear out right now, there's zero chance it's worth the damage being done in reaction. But the numbers are clearly being miscounted. It's undisputed that Corona cases are being counted in ways that inflate the numbers. Deaths that are obviously not caused by covid, but the person had tested positive for covid are being counted as covid deaths (e.g. suicide or hit by a car while having had covid). Hospitals incentivized to claim covid as much as possible to make more money. Counting Corona cases not just by a positive test, but symptoms alone, contact with someone who had covid, etc
Then you can look at who is actually dying from it. Overwhelmingly the old and frail, much like the flu. People treat it like it's the plague or something. If you're not old and or in poor health, you have nothing to worry about (yes, the occasional anecdote of younger "healthy" people dying is out there, that will happen with the flu too).
Now there is extreme fear-mongering of a second wave, but now the media is only focused on cases, because deaths are staying the same or dropping. There's also blatant politicisation when you see left-leaning sources laughably insist the massive blm protests haven't contributed to the uptick in cases.
And yes, people are worried that the precedent of giving up so much liberty to tamp down on a glorified flu is a bad thing.
Do you dispute all the damage I laid out that's being done in reaction to covid? Do you dispute that the covid numbers are similar to a bad flu? Have you considered that your position on this may have been wrong?
I think you're vastly underestimating the damage these covid measures have caused and are causing. Psychological damage. Economic damage. Jobs lost, children's education wildly disrupted. Humans are extremely social creatures, it's extremely bad for people's health and well-being to be locked away from one another. Massive amounts of elected surgeries and hospital visits delayed while hospitals remain open and unused, waiting for covid patients. How many people will have missed crucial visits that would have caught cancer earlier, as an example.
Then you have the extreme amount of nonsense that has come out from experts the entire time. Models that are wildly off, expert suggestions that contradict each other every few weeks. Social media platforms that ban discussion as conspiratorial one week because it goes against cdc and who guidelines, and the next week, cdc and who guidelines change to take that position.
Then you have the numbers. Even if it is as bad as the numbers bear out right now, there's zero chance it's worth the damage being done in reaction. But the numbers are clearly being miscounted. It's undisputed that Corona cases are being counted in ways that inflate the numbers. Deaths that are obviously not caused by covid, but the person had tested positive for covid are being counted as covid deaths (e.g. suicide or hit by a car while having had covid). Hospitals incentivized to claim covid as much as possible to make more money. Counting Corona cases not just by a positive test, but symptoms alone, contact with someone who had covid, etc
Then you can look at who is actually dying from it. Overwhelmingly the old and frail, much like the flu. People treat it like it's the plague or something. If you're not old and or in poor health, you have nothing to worry about (yes, the occasional anecdote of younger "healthy" people dying is out there, that will happen with the flu too).
Now there is extreme fear-mongering of a second wave, but now the media is only focused on cases, because deaths are staying the same or dropping. There's also blatant politicisation when you see left-leaning sources laughably insist the massive blm protests haven't contributed to the uptick in cases.
And yes, people are worried that the precedent of giving up so much liberty to tamp down on a glorified flu is a bad thing.
Do you dispute all the damage I laid out that's being done in reaction to covid? Do you dispute that the covid numbers are similar to a bad flu? Have you considered that your position on this may have been wrong?