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[–]passionflounder 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Frankly the whole COVID national crisis amounts to opportunistic exploitation of a virus that, if left alone to run its course would likely register as nothing more than something along the lines of a strain of flu- albeit a particularly virulent one.

Mask-wearing is being pushed as the singular most effective means of slowing spread of this super-super virulent disease where in order to meet the standard that triggers contact tracing in order to identify potential new cases, one will have needed to be in close contact with a laboratory-confirmed case for at least 15 minutes- either continuous or accumulated over a 24-hour period.

Many of the same fuck-heads pushing restrictions on the healthy population were the same ones mandating that nursing homes accept active cases early on- when initial roll-outs of closures reflected how easily transmissible the virus supposedly is... but apparently there needed to be a bloated body count. How better a way to achieve that than to seed the spread to the most vulnerable population?

Depraved indifference is a nice way of putting it. Frankly those spearheading these choreographed "unprecedented; uncertain times" are committing acts on par with what got Nazis executed in the 40's Nuremburg trials after their WWII atrocities were uncovered.

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

if left alone to run its course would likely register as nothing more than something along the lines of a strain of flu- albeit a particularly virulent one.

Well that's the point, isn't it? It's like the flu, but if left uncontrolled, would spread to far more people than flu does, making it far more damaging than the flu is.

[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Except the death rate is only a tiny fraction of the flu's. And that is using the same extremely exaggerated numbers the cdc is using to scare the hell out of everyone. They are using people's complete ignorance of statistics and inclination towards fear to control us all.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

COVID-19 doesn't simply kill; it also causes massive amounts of long term systemic damage due to its effects on various organs in the body. Even if it doesn't kill you it can badly fuck you up, and the people claiming that "it's like the flu" like yourself are incredibly ill informed and are spreading dangerous misinformation. You are not a healthcare worker; you don't have to deal with the sick and dying on a deadly basis. Stop it.