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I appreciate your reply but how can the amount COVID deaths increase total deaths be irrelvent? It provides perspective. It is even likely that working age people are more likely to die in a car accident than from COVID and we know that kids are far more likely to be taken out by the Flu.
Our young people are statistically safe, most adults are reasonably safe and certainly elderly/debilitated are at much more risk and should be protected if they wish.
I definetly get what you are saying it certainly adds to the fear factor that this unseen assailant can come at me un-noticed from anywhere at any time unless I am alone. IMO, the fear factor of exposeure or even a positive test have been blown out of proportion for the average American. For example just a little more that 1 in 2,000 Americans have died from COVID but 1 in 115 will die from something this year. My odds are better than average in both cases because both are over represented by very elderly very debilitated. However you look at it this is not the killer it was first purported to be and IMO: If hospitals are going broke from under utilization you're not in much of a pandemic. As for people not doing what they should I honestly think the nation would of responded to a request to help those at high risk isolate if they wished far better than being told what to do.
I guess what I'm saying is that 250,000 dead is like 4 bad flu years at once and we just soldier on through those year after year where we lose tens of thousands depsite having a vaccine. In other words we can't shut down over something like this. The cost are too high and the benfits too low.
Our young people are statistically safe, most adults are reasonably safe and certainly elderly/debilitated are at much more risk and should be protected if they wish.
I definetly get what you are saying it certainly adds to the fear factor that this unseen assailant can come at me un-noticed from anywhere at any time unless I am alone. IMO, the fear factor of exposeure or even a positive test have been blown out of proportion for the average American. For example just a little more that 1 in 2,000 Americans have died from COVID but 1 in 115 will die from something this year. My odds are better than average in both cases because both are over represented by very elderly very debilitated. However you look at it this is not the killer it was first purported to be and IMO: If hospitals are going broke from under utilization you're not in much of a pandemic. As for people not doing what they should I honestly think the nation would of responded to a request to help those at high risk isolate if they wished far better than being told what to do.
I guess what I'm saying is that 250,000 dead is like 4 bad flu years at once and we just soldier on through those year after year where we lose tens of thousands depsite having a vaccine. In other words we can't shut down over something like this. The cost are too high and the benfits too low.