RE: The mask thread
October 12, 2020 at 1:33 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2020 at 1:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 12, 2020 at 1:25 am)Seraph Wrote: In this case a larger group (society in general) is enduring overwhelming detriment so a small group of people can go outside their homes. Very old people with preexisting conditions like diabetes and obesity are virtually the only ones dying of Covid, that too with a low mortality rate of somewhere between 1-3%. If you really want to save their lives, restrict them to their homes, don’t tell the entire society to wear a mask, not congregate in large numbers, and maintain 6 feet distance from each other. What kind of incompetent policy is this?
200k dead people is a pretty large group of dead people, and there are...ofc...many many more who've been infected and been damaged. Bodily, and economically. As to the state we find ourselves in, again, the virus didn't do that. We've done this to ourselves. We could have mass quarantined. We could have worn our masks. We could have provided adequate relief. We still can, but, obviously, we were going to get the most out of our actions at the very beginning.
I feel like we're negotiating over your grandmother. Perhaps neither of us has the right to offer up her life or the right to suggest it? Letting covid run roughshod over us is unlikely to bring the mortality rate down.
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