Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
I'll be doing the asking now.

1. What is the driving force behind trying to belittle/deny the gravity of the pandemic?

2. Why the refusal to look at the already given and posted (by me) numbers comparing COVID-19 with the flu?

3. Why the anger and resentment for those people who choose to obey social distancing guidelines and protect themselves?

4. Why the dogged relentless questions about cause of death?

5. Why the persistent comparisons between COVID-19 and every other cause of death under the sun, including but not limited to: cancer, heart attacks, car accidents, hunger, meteor strikes?



I'd like these answered to my satisfaction, thanks.
1. I think it is a meaningful health issue, but it does not compare with prior pandemics. Maybe I say this from a place where it has been controlled.

2. I have looked at the data and the risk of Covid is clearly higher than flu given the data, but if many have had it and not been tested then that also skews the data too. Heck, Beanz and his family may have had it and all alive. If added to the numbers the death rate declines. All I know is that 0.4% chance of death is relatively low. And even lower considering I am not obese, with diabetes, heart issues etc. Of course it is an issue, but still relatively low. Get healthy and you are even less likely to die from it.

3. I think people should social distance. I do it myself and I wear a mask. I just do not think a man alone in a park reading a book or a guy on the ocean surfing is an issue.

4. Cause of death is important. For instance if you have stage 4 cancer and then catch Covid it will push you over, but you were 90% likely to die very soon anyway. It's like a person with AIDS getting the flu. Of course the flu killed him, but he had AIDS. It is important to put that into perspective.

5. I compare because more people have died this year from other conditions than been even infected with covid. It puts it into perspective. You are more likely to die from something than even get infected with Covid. For most it is a bad flu, for some it is more serious, most recover. You cannot say the same for late stage cancer. It kills far more and we do nothing to detect it. More Americans have died from other things in far greater numbers than even died globally from Corona. It is just a bit of perspective again.

Corona is not everything, it does not shape all health concerns, it does not kill everyone, but we should take it seriously and be responsible in our efforts to contain it. Maybe you will see it from my position in say a month.