Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire
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[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
Over a virus that is no worse, on average, than the flu.
An average skewed by the fact that those most at risk are often completely isolated from all human contact. You're comparing bad cases of COVID-19 in the very healthiest to bad cases of flu in the whole population. Calling that "on average" is disingenuous. (And, by the way, that's a really old stat – I'm pretty sure that hasn't been the case for five months now. COVID-19 isn't the worst disease on the planet when compared to stuff like Ebola, but it's virulent and a darn sight worse than anything we had in developed countries this time last year.)
forced to wear a item of clothing
I don't know of anywhere where this is legally mandated.
your right to privacy is intruded on
How? I'm a techie; the contract tracing protocols track you less than the telephony network.
Only to look forward to years of a rocky economic road which will seriously diminish your way of life,
Most countries have managed to avoid this. Blame your government, and maybe spend half an hour actually working towards fixing the problem – vote, if your voting system's effective; otherwise, write a letter to a politician, or perhaps find a competent activist and throw some money at them.
True ignorance is denying experiential and scientific data surrounding the topic.
Yeah… Kind of sucks to live in one of the countries where your government's doing this. But at least it's better than the US.
The only way millions of people are going to "stop it", is by contracting it, having the sniffles for a couple of weeks and then being done with it.
"The sniffles" is, generously, an accurate assessment of the median reaction. But "the median reaction is sniffles" is consistent with "40% of people straight up die"; going by the median response is a terrible way to make these decisions.
Your healthcare system can't cope with everybody getting COVID-19 at once, if only 1% of people require hospitalisation to survive. Nowhere's can. (And iirc, it's higher than 1% even with those most at risk self-isolating.)
[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Despite your hysterics it really is just a "flu". Screencap this and be prepared to eat all of your words with a generous helping of salt.
[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
I can do better than a screencap. Willing to make a “bet” on PredictionBook? (No money; just a permanent record that people can bring up at a later date and laugh at you about.)
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