72Hardtop wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:29 am
Everyone dies in the end. When it's ones time, it's time. No one gets out alive.
OK, Doctors, that's your cue. Go home. All your patients are going to die anyway. Firefighters, too. All the lives you save will perish in the end. Lifeguards, that drowning person is going to die anyway someday, so you might as well not get your swimsuit wet. (And yes, that's sarcasm.)
Fact is they went about it the wrong way from the get go, They know who it affects mostly 65+ with 2 or more underlying conditions. With that info you focus on that. Kids are nearly unaffected. The one size shoe fits all approach was wrong.
Jeez, where have you been? We're now hearing that there are surges in mortality among younger people ... teens, even ... and that the concerns with kids is not just that they'll die from it (of which the odds are small, as you've noted) but that they'll catch it and bring it home to mom and dad and grandma and grandpa and Aunt Cora, who's recovering from cancer. And testing on school-age children, particularly those in middle-school and high school, has shown that a high percentage of them are testing positive for COVID, even though they're asymptomatic.
Your view is based on what people knew about the virus last winter and early spring. Sadly, the experts were wrong in many ways. It wasn't because they were negligent, but because they didn't have the data we have now. They were doing the best they could with what they had, erring on the side of caution whenever possible. If they hadn't, the pandemic would be worse now, with more people getting sick, hospitals and clinics running out of PPEs a lot sooner, and patients waiting for ventilators that hadn't even been built yet.
I suggest you start getting your information from the Mayo Clinic, WHO and the Johns Hopkins University. (I would have added the CDC to that list, but their information stream has been pissed in by the White House, who waited until Dr. Fauci was under sedation before they promulgated a new, less intensive testing program that better suited Trump's "The less we test, the few cases we'll have" strategy for keeping his image untarnished.)
Honestly, do you even follow the news from reputable sources, or are you buying what Fox News and Trump's Twitter feeds are sending you? I'm serious. The information is out there, and we can't be willfully blind about it. That's only going to prolong the agony. See what your local health department has to say about it. They're only a phone call or a couple of browser clicks away.
We never went to this extreme with any disease. And there have been others with much higher mortality rates.
Yes, there were. and we've learned from them not to take contagious diseases lightly. And Ebola, which indeed has a higher mortality rate, isn't spread by airborne viruses, but by actual contact with an infected person's body, blood, or urine. So it's more easily contained, once the proper measures are taken. Nobody is going to give you Ebola by sneezing five feet away from you.
If you continue to share your opinions on health-related matters, please state your qualifications. I'll state mine right here: I was employed as a Health Educator (capitalized because it was my job title) by the Baltimore City Health Department for five years. It was part of my job to learn about pandemics and epidemics, the statistical methods for analyzing and interpreting the data on them, and teaching the principles of public health to others.
Your turn.