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Originally Posted by mopek1
You didn't really address what I wrote.
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Sorry, let me address this:
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Originally Posted by mopek1
There are 1000s of harmful things in our world and 1000s of things we can do that would reduce those harmful things by 1%, yet we don't do them. Decrease driving accidents, cleaner environment, better eating (which will save our health and the health system), reducing suicide, concussion protocols, possibility of war etc... I could go on. We don't take actions that would reduce those likelihoods by 1% so why do it for Corona? How would we even start to rank what's the most harmful thing for us and then decide to take action to reduce that by 1%?
It would take too much time and too many resources and we as humans just don't do that for good and bad reasons. We live with risk and we go about our day as best we can, moving forward making things better a bit at a time. There are far more dangerous things to worry about out there than Corona.
BTW, the lockdown is said to have increased tuberculosis in the world by 5 million cases over the next few years and 1.4 million deaths. That's just one adverse affect of the lockdown. 1.4 million deaths ... now you ask me about people who are so utterly stupid ... again, it's not that they are stupid, it's that this issue is now politicized and that's one more reason why (on top of my rationale above and belief they are generally not needed) I don't wear a mask.
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Basically your argument is that there are lots of things that can kill us so why bother taking extra precautions for Covid-19, is that about right?
Well those things that can kill us are KNOWN causes of death and we, as clear-thinking free humans, can decide how to deal with those possibilities. But with coronavirus? We simply DO NOT KNOW the extent of this disease, its' long-term affects and whether or not you get immunity from it once you have it. This is so new the data is still flowing in.
So what to do? Look at all the other ways you could get sick and die and treat Covid-19 as the same? That would be a huge mistake (one many people are currently making). This virus spreads faster than other diseases, there is no cure or vaccine, we do not know the long-term affects of the disease, there is a second wave coming....
Just wear a fucking mask for a few months people PLEASE. It will not be forever.