Are lockdowns justified?

[Jackalope]

The dumbfuckery in this thread is palpable.

[Anomalocaris]

He made minor typographic errors when setting up his account.

He meant to type “Flat Dissembler”, but he typed “FlatAssember” instead.

[FlatAssembler]

Does anybody here understand, why didn't COVID-19 disappear, as Donald Trump predicted? Why do different laws of evolution appear to apply to viruses and to us?
Viruses co-evolve with the hosts, right? And virus equivalent of sexual reproduction is when two viruses infect the same cell, right? So, when a bat coronavirus receives a mutation that enables it to attack humans... it essentially enters an eco-system in which there is no organism of its specie. The coronavirus that lives in humans which is most closely related to COVID-19 is separated from COVID-19 by tens of millions of years, and "mating" with it will not produce viable offspring. So, one would expect COVID-19 to disappear due to inbreeding in a few generations, as the harmful genetic mutations in it accumulate. Where is the error in that reasoning?

[Foxaèr]

Does anybody here understand, why didn't COVID-19 disappear, as Donald Trump predicted?

My very educated guess is far right extremism, mainly anti-maskers and idiots who didn't want to be informed by reason.

[FlatAssembler]

Does anybody here understand, why didn't COVID-19 disappear, as Donald Trump predicted?

My very educated guess is far right extremism, mainly anti-maskers and idiots who didn't want to be informed by reason.

I mean disappear naturally, because of inbreeding, as would be clear if you read my post. Why don't viruses that jump from one specie to another soon disappear due to inbreeding?

[Foxaèr]

I mean disappear naturally, because of inbreeding, as would be clear if you read my post. Why don't viruses that jump from one specie to another soon disappear due to inbreeding?

Why don't we turn to cheese when we look at the moon? I find as much relevance with that question as I do with your inquiry.

[FlatAssembler]

I mean disappear naturally, because of inbreeding, as would be clear if you read my post. Why don't viruses that jump from one specie to another soon disappear due to inbreeding?

Why don't we turn to cheese when we look at the moon? I find as much relevance with that question as I do with your inquiry.

Donald Trump said that COVID-19 will disappear naturally. And, when you think about that, thinking that does not appear so silly. In fact, it seems to me that, if you apply the knowledge of high-school biology, that is what you would expect. So I want to know why it is wrong, exactly. Which logical fallacy are both Donald Trump and I committing when thinking about whether it is to be expected that COVID-19 disappears naturally?

[Foxaèr]

Donald Trump said that COVID-19 will disappear naturally. And, when you think about that, thinking that does not appear so silly. In fact, it seems to me that, if you apply the knowledge of high-school biology, that is what you would expect. So I want to know why it is wrong, exactly. Which logical fallacy are both Donald Trump and I committing when thinking about whether it is to be expected that COVID-19 disappears naturally?

What comes to mind is yours and his ignorance of science.

[arewethereyet]

Why don't we turn to cheese when we look at the moon? I find as much relevance with that question as I do with your inquiry.

Donald Trump said that COVID-19 will disappear naturally. And, when you think about that, thinking that does not appear so silly. In fact, it seems to me that, if you apply the knowledge of high-school biology, that is what you would expect. So I want to know why it is wrong, exactly. Which logical fallacy are both Donald Trump and I committing when thinking about whether it is to be expected that COVID-19 disappears naturally?

Did small pox disappear naturally?  What would make you think that as long as a virus/germ/bacteria has a host it will just magically disappear?

[tackattack]

"So I want to know why it is wrong, exactly" - your definition of naturally.