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Answer: Because it is a very contagious disease that can spread invisibly with asymptomatic carriers! If a mere 1% of our population is overcome by it, that is over 3 million people. And sure, they will mostly be old, and they were all going to die anyway, so who cares, right?
I am curious how deadly this pandemic would have had to be to convince people to take it seriously. Have we become so individualistic and asocial that unless we are personally threatened, we will just turn our backs on the vulnerable and let them fend for themselves? Would things have gone differently if it was children who were dropping dead instead of old people?
We seem to be developing an American outlook on tragedy that I find rather distressing. We decide there nothing we can do about it (without giving a quarter of an inch of our personal freedom in the name of the common good), so we might as well just look the other way and keep our heads down. I see this with the pandemic, the gun violence epidemic in this country, our addiction/overdose crisis, our broken justice system, and so much else.
As for all of this pandemic disinformation; go talk to your doctor about it. He or she is an expert on this sort of thing; you should listen to what they have to say over some tinfoil-hat-wearing whacko with a youtube account and made up credentials.
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AdminChris,
I think it is high-time to lock out this topic.
Everyone has had their chance to state their opinions.
Get thier inner angsts out.
We now have options on Covid-19.
Let each choose. And live with that choice.
Further chattering about this on the DOW is disruptive, and bears poking to angers.
Let’s instead actually live the American creed of E PLURIBUS UNUM.
Out of Many: One
Wood gassers are a unique critter, with a unique approach and we all need to stick together on focused on this pursuit.
Steve Unruh
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The point is always missed about the treatments that work, they always go to not taking it seriously, then to name calling. It is all about early treatments that were denied. Even if only 50% wouldn’t it have been worth trying? and the last I heard the vaccines have killed over 4000 people, but lets outlaw any treatments.
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I woke up this morning with a twisted feeling of foreboding in my stomach.
For various local reasons, social, work related, and family…
On the world stage their are corpses floating down the Ganges in such numbers they used nets up to catch them.
People hiding in basements from rocket attacks.
Starving children in the dessert ( this never seems to end ).
An Iceberg 80 times bigger than Manhattan cleaved off the ant arctic ice shelf.
The whole world not just the USA seems to have taken complete leave of its senses and just acts like there is nothing we can do.
There probably is nothing we can do on an individual level but no one is willing to work together.
I am feeling a measure of shame for just leaving that kid on the bench to OD alone. I could have done something more and didn’t.
I was leaving the mayors office on the way home from buying a dog license and I saw this pale greasing kid about my son’s age ( maybe older hard tell when your all greasy pale and hunched over like that ). I talked to him for a moment, I came back because I felt guilty and talked to him a little more asked him if he was OK, I walked back to the intercom I used to buzz in to city hall to ask for someone else to come do something, then I left in my car…
No one wants to come out of their safe locked up offices because of Covid and I am turning into one of those people that steps over or walks around others in distress that I maybe really could help. I don’t even keep change in my pockets for the pan handlers that seem to be covering every corner now on every road in every direction.
I can’t blame Covid for my own lack of Empathy. I am just turning into a prick because I let myself say its not my responsibility
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Societal problems are not something we can address alone. Some problems are so thorny they do not even seem to have solutions. I think the best we can do is try and stay engaged even when it is frustrating. Keep voting, even when it doesnt seem to make any difference who wins the elections. Try and hear other people, even when we disagree with what they say. Just try and be a generally decent person, and recognize just how much we depend on each other.
Anyway, I am not a doctor or an epidemiologist, so really I have no authority to rebut the claims that those videos made. We could argue back and forth until we were all blue in the face, but we would really all just be citing second-hand information. So talk to your doctor. If you doctor says you should be looking for medical advice on the videos that pop up on your social media feed, then I will defer to their expert judgment.
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You would think a good crisis might make people re-evaluate things.
Rather it has made us more cynical and I think this year has even made us less likely to think about he common good. I blame social media for giving us the freedom to not listen to or associate with anyone we don’t agree with in a virtual world of make believe and self serving ideology.
Ideology is everywhere
" When I’m watchin’ my TV
And a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be
But he can’t be a man 'cause he doesn’t smoke
The same cigarrettes as me "
Did you question Cronkite of Nash when he read the evening news?
Today we rather dispute any fact that does not conform to our ideology and seek only the approval facebook echo chambers.
Have you seen the people that get elected today.
I won’t even go into that rabbit hole.
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Yep. COVID has unfortunately become highly politicized, and very divisive even among friends. As such it is no longer a suitable topic on DOW.
Everyone please do your best to stay safe, whatever you choose to do. Let’s leave it at that.
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