People don't understand what risk is. It is NOT fear or worry. It is understanding what can happen, its probability of happening, and its impact if it does happen. Early on, wuflu was a risk. Its probability and impact were not understood or were heavily misrepresented. The original shutdown was based on the unknowns. The sad part is media and liberals have prevented anyone from reevaluating the risk. Which is a standard practice of risk management.
cOViD is not even really a risk for people with working immune systems. It's a mundane coronavirus, no more deadly than all the coronaviruses your body fights every day. Silently, your body's immune system is always at work, always fighting off viruses and infection.
Sometimes your body can't beat it and you get a cold, sometimes you get a more virulent virus like Influenza or Norovirus and you go down for a while, in the case of those two it IS potentially deadly.
For people without the immune response to fight off viruses, any virus can be deadly, which is just a fact of life. That's why people die when they get older. Their bodies become weaker and less capable of fighting off illnesses. Some people hasten this by abusing their bodies. Some people develop illnesses by circumstance and are compromised. For these people, CoViD any virtually any other virus that the rest of us don't even notice we fight off every day can be deadly.
So does that mean when a person gets old we wrap them in a bubble? Really if it's not covid, it's something else right? No, that's not a life for them. They are humans with the need to be around people, to be hugged and treated with dignity. That carries risk, obviously... but nobody gets out of life alive!
Mine is throwing an Octoberfest party this weekend because she wants to drink beer and eat pretzels with friends again. We're all fed up with the expectation we'll live like morlocks while the eloi enjoy their freezers full of $12 ice cream.
More like in all human history. You can go all the way back to when humans were in nomadic tribes and you wouldn’t be able to find a single point where the huge majority of the economy was deemed not important enough and that socializing needs to be limited in this way.
This has been the most successful propaganda/gas lighting campaign of the 20th and 21st centuries.
It's utterly pathetic that anyone who has seen the real numbers of infected/ill/dead would not want to be done with this bullshit immediately.
Life is full of risk. COViD is just one more thing that can hurt you, and it's not especially high on the list.
Leftists make a desert and call it peace, or to put another way end human society and call it safe.
Truly. I'm saddened by the number of people who willingly stop living in order to maybe avoid dying. That's not living; it's just not dying.
I love Big Brother!
People don't understand what risk is. It is NOT fear or worry. It is understanding what can happen, its probability of happening, and its impact if it does happen. Early on, wuflu was a risk. Its probability and impact were not understood or were heavily misrepresented. The original shutdown was based on the unknowns. The sad part is media and liberals have prevented anyone from reevaluating the risk. Which is a standard practice of risk management.
cOViD is not even really a risk for people with working immune systems. It's a mundane coronavirus, no more deadly than all the coronaviruses your body fights every day. Silently, your body's immune system is always at work, always fighting off viruses and infection.
Sometimes your body can't beat it and you get a cold, sometimes you get a more virulent virus like Influenza or Norovirus and you go down for a while, in the case of those two it IS potentially deadly.
For people without the immune response to fight off viruses, any virus can be deadly, which is just a fact of life. That's why people die when they get older. Their bodies become weaker and less capable of fighting off illnesses. Some people hasten this by abusing their bodies. Some people develop illnesses by circumstance and are compromised. For these people, CoViD any virtually any other virus that the rest of us don't even notice we fight off every day can be deadly.
So does that mean when a person gets old we wrap them in a bubble? Really if it's not covid, it's something else right? No, that's not a life for them. They are humans with the need to be around people, to be hugged and treated with dignity. That carries risk, obviously... but nobody gets out of life alive!
They have my mother terrified but her eyes were never open. She believe all politicians lie but when it came to this she bought into it completely.
Mine is half-way. She is conservative but still consumes too much mainstream media. A slow, steady drop of reality and facts seems to help.
Mine is throwing an Octoberfest party this weekend because she wants to drink beer and eat pretzels with friends again. We're all fed up with the expectation we'll live like morlocks while the eloi enjoy their freezers full of $12 ice cream.
The women in my bible study, on the other hand...
More like in all human history. You can go all the way back to when humans were in nomadic tribes and you wouldn’t be able to find a single point where the huge majority of the economy was deemed not important enough and that socializing needs to be limited in this way.
you're right
Even at 200k I don't care. I grew up being told 500k are killed every year by smoking. So what the fuck does 200k matter when nobody noticed 509k?
agreed