A True Killer

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[–]madcow-5 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Sure. So no different than the flu or a rough cold.

Those are, and have been for all of humanity, an accepted part of life. Never until this year was it even suggested that you shut-down all of society over it, or that by having a cold you're inadvertently murdering people if you don't quarantine yourself. And that's very much the way the narrative is going. Someone I know at upenn has to provide proof of a flu shot to receive their degree this year. That's insane, and clearly an effort to pretend it's normal to treat the common flu the same way we're expected to treat COVID19.

[–]Sebastian 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree with you but I think there is no great conspiracy behind it. Just a human error. In the first days, maybe January, nobody really had any data on how deadly is the virus. The theory was it could be even 20%, which would be catastrophic to our society. So with that mindset everybody enacted drastic measures (I am talking about the world, dunno much about US). Also you need to realize that normal flu does not overflood the hospitals with patients. Almost every country in Europe is building field hospitals because of overflooded hospitals. Flu does not do that.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Are you serious?

In the UK we get our hospitals flooded every single winter with flu.

Last year we built field hospitals for covid but they were dismantled due to lack of demand.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In the US it's not super common to go to the hospital for anything short of an immeniently life threatening condition. Poor people do sometimes cause it's covered for them.