My Thoughts on COVID-19
Apr. 17th, 2020 02:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dogriverI'm far too mentally exhausted to argue. So I'm writing this blog entry not because I want to pick a fight with anyone, but because I have opinions and I have to put them out there. Agree or disagree with me as you will, it's my right to say how I feel, it's your right to agree or disagree as you see fit. I may be right, I may be wrong, I'm no expert and don't claim to be one.
From the beginning of this whole COVID-19 scare, the numbers just haven't added up for me. COVID-19 is supposed to be ten times more deadly than the flu. So why haven't we seen numbers even approaching the numbers for the seasonal flu? Why does the media report on every death from COVID-19, but remain completely silent about the flu? Social distancing is working, say the experts. If that is indeed why the numbers are a mere tiny fraction of what was predicted, then one would think that the flu, being so much less contagious, should have had numbers that dropped like a stone. And even so, the number of flu cases is going to be incredibly under-reported. I'm almost fifty and have never reported getting the flu in my life, and I must be one of millions who falls into that category. Yet, for all that, the numbers for the flu are many, many times higher than those for COVID-19. Why do these numbers just not add up?
Do I think it's a hoax? No. I do believe there is a virus, I do believe it kills people, I do believe that one death is one death too many. But I also believe that the media has fuled an unprecedented hysteria, overblowing the actualy problem a thousandfold, thus cripling the economy, putting millions out of work, severely hurting millions more, in short, causing hundreds of thousands of times more damage than the actual virus has.
Governments have been jumping on this like crazy, because to appear to do nothing would be political suicide. I also think some governments will use it as an excuse to dump a major portion of their civil services. It's a feeding frenzy of opportunism, probably fueled also in no small part by Trump-hating. I don't like Trump, not at all. But I do think that the media and many individuals have taken their hatred of the president to incredible heights by overblowing this so-called pandemic. And again, so many people untouched by COVID-19 are being hurt, many times irreparably. Health experts are sitting at home beside their three-car garages, pulling in six-figure salaries, and dishing out gloom and doom guaranteed to cause financial ruin to millions or even billions worldwide. It's easy destroying the lives of others when your life is untouched.
None of this adds up. When this is all over, the world is going to be clogged with ventilators and masks that no one has need of. Landfills are going to be overflowing to bursting with used masks. People will be forced out on the streats because their livelihoods have been ruined. Is it worth it? Is it worth the United states spending in excess of $6000 for every single man, woman and child in the country to fight a disease that is absolutely dwarfed by a seasonal flu that everyone chooses to ignore? Wouldn't it be better to deal with and help those who are infected and who are symptomatic as opposed to ruining the lives of billions of people who are not? The 1918-19 flu pandemic infected roughly a third of the population of the planet. For COVID-19 to do the same, we'll need well over two billion more infections worldwide. The media, the doom-and-gloomers, those taking an almost sick pleasure in scaring people to death, all these people will have to be held accountable for the damage that they've done. And for a lare part, there is no turning back, that damage has been done and won't be reversible. HAs anyone won?
From the beginning of this whole COVID-19 scare, the numbers just haven't added up for me. COVID-19 is supposed to be ten times more deadly than the flu. So why haven't we seen numbers even approaching the numbers for the seasonal flu? Why does the media report on every death from COVID-19, but remain completely silent about the flu? Social distancing is working, say the experts. If that is indeed why the numbers are a mere tiny fraction of what was predicted, then one would think that the flu, being so much less contagious, should have had numbers that dropped like a stone. And even so, the number of flu cases is going to be incredibly under-reported. I'm almost fifty and have never reported getting the flu in my life, and I must be one of millions who falls into that category. Yet, for all that, the numbers for the flu are many, many times higher than those for COVID-19. Why do these numbers just not add up?
Do I think it's a hoax? No. I do believe there is a virus, I do believe it kills people, I do believe that one death is one death too many. But I also believe that the media has fuled an unprecedented hysteria, overblowing the actualy problem a thousandfold, thus cripling the economy, putting millions out of work, severely hurting millions more, in short, causing hundreds of thousands of times more damage than the actual virus has.
Governments have been jumping on this like crazy, because to appear to do nothing would be political suicide. I also think some governments will use it as an excuse to dump a major portion of their civil services. It's a feeding frenzy of opportunism, probably fueled also in no small part by Trump-hating. I don't like Trump, not at all. But I do think that the media and many individuals have taken their hatred of the president to incredible heights by overblowing this so-called pandemic. And again, so many people untouched by COVID-19 are being hurt, many times irreparably. Health experts are sitting at home beside their three-car garages, pulling in six-figure salaries, and dishing out gloom and doom guaranteed to cause financial ruin to millions or even billions worldwide. It's easy destroying the lives of others when your life is untouched.
None of this adds up. When this is all over, the world is going to be clogged with ventilators and masks that no one has need of. Landfills are going to be overflowing to bursting with used masks. People will be forced out on the streats because their livelihoods have been ruined. Is it worth it? Is it worth the United states spending in excess of $6000 for every single man, woman and child in the country to fight a disease that is absolutely dwarfed by a seasonal flu that everyone chooses to ignore? Wouldn't it be better to deal with and help those who are infected and who are symptomatic as opposed to ruining the lives of billions of people who are not? The 1918-19 flu pandemic infected roughly a third of the population of the planet. For COVID-19 to do the same, we'll need well over two billion more infections worldwide. The media, the doom-and-gloomers, those taking an almost sick pleasure in scaring people to death, all these people will have to be held accountable for the damage that they've done. And for a lare part, there is no turning back, that damage has been done and won't be reversible. HAs anyone won?
