In America, 1.1 million people died from COVID. Sadly not all of those were CT loons who wouldn’t take precautions.
How does mortality differ across countries? Examining the number of deaths per confirmed case and per 100,000 population. A global comparison.
coronavirus.jhu.edu
Here is the difference. You expect medicine to be perfect. I expect the people to do the very best they can with the information they have.
When I was a child, I had a lot of earaches. The standard practice then was to pump the child full of antibiotics. The antibiotics had a side effect we didn’t know about. They destroyed the enamel on adult teeth that were still developing.
This meant that as an adult I had teeth that were always getting cavities no matter how often I brushed them. So I ended up getting dentures at an early point in my life, because the alternative was pain and rotting teeth.
Now I can get mad at Doctors for now knowing. I can blame them. Or I can accept they were doing the best they could.
I was in the Army. Up to Vietnam the Army would pop Morphine into the wounded to ease their pain. The Doctors didn’t know this could cause the patient to go into shock and die. They were trying to help the guy. When we learned about Shock we treated for it. God alone knows how many Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines died because we were trying to help.
That is life. You do the best you can and you hope it is good enough. You aren’t perfect. No human is. You just keep trying and learning and struggle to do better.
I got the shots. I didn’t get sick. Of course I got inoculated against everything imaginable when I was growing up and in the Army. So I trust medicine. I trust that the Doctor is doing everything he can. I trust that my Doctor is going to try his best to fix what is broken, or repair what is torn. I trust my Doctor to manage my conditions.
And as a Smoker, I accept the risks of my decisions. I’m not afraid of dying. I’m not afraid of injury. I jumped out of airplanes in the Army. Fear is not in my character. Obviously it rules yours.