Has anybody in your family had the Corona virus?

[Gandalf]

Does the absence of Coronavirus in your social circle mean or prove anything other than no one in your social circle has it or has had it? Is that minuscule slice of the World supposed to be representative of the remainder?

The goal posts on this have shifted and continue to shift as the true picture is painted. Echoed right here with the question does anyone know anyone that’s had it. To continue to support that narrative We now need to be related.

Let’s hope the answer to the question continues to be no.

I like to put it into perspective. This will pass soon and few will have family who even had it. Everyone will have family who will die from cancer or heart disease. 10 years from now this will be a flash in the pan while cancer and heart disease continue to kill in much higher numbers as they are even now.

It is nasty for some of course and I do not mock anyone's death or suffering. I just don't know anyone with it. My wife must have hundreds of friends and even someone in Daegu. I have less friends, but know a good 20 or so that all have family both here and back home and nothing.

Of course I hope it remains that way. I am a bit worried about Brock actually. Unless he is here, he has gone missing. Dia have you heard from the Brockster?

I get that, nothing wrong with perspective but this is almost like your there shouldn't be special Olympics claim on the basis that they aren't really the best so why bother? Do we relegate Alzheimer on the basis that it isn't as bad as a stroke? Stroke on the basis that it isn't heart disease?

You're having to shift the goal posts again and bring cancer or heart disease into the mix because despite being a decent sound bite to start with, the it's no worse than flu claim (I used it too) is becoming less and less sustainable and something far worse is now required to tow the line.

I am not noving the goalposts. You just did not see the goal posts to begin with. I have always asserted that in the US, for instance, 2.5 million die a year normally. Much of that death is from the common killers. By comparison these numbers are relatively low. In Europe asides from Germany it is a mess, but in some countries the numbers are actually very low and the rate of death not very high. It is not comparable to the great plague or the Spanish flu in terms of numbers.

The Paralympics has nothing to do with this and is a pure decade old strawman point. But if you want to discuss that we can and I would just tell you that people are more interested in men's singles tennis than either the women's or the disabled. It is just how people are. They want to see the best. The crowds empty for less than that. It is how things are. I do not determine how empty Wimbledon is. That is the general public. Argue that with them. It is a different topic though.