wanderingbadger77 said:I guess I'll keep lying for a bit. Where do you guys even get this inspiration?
Dentists are working.
Besides, what does that even have to do with isolation.
You guys are clogging up every single thread.
The forums and society at large are being cluttered by these self-proclaimed doomsday prophets and loafers who clearly have nothing better to do with their lives. They don't have jobs, they don't have friends, and they just sit around waiting for a crisis so they finally have something to talk about.
Frank Martin2 said:You just undermined your own point by using the word "potentially" regarding those consequences.
We don't actually know much about these "potential" consequences—they are "possible," sure, but not necessarily certain.
If we’re going to split hairs, every single illness leaves some sort of mark. For all we know, the aftermath of COVID might actually be less severe than the aftermath of a bad case of the flu.
So, since we're still in the dark, why defend epidemic control measures from such a pessimistic standpoint?
Why not approach it as an optimist?
And more importantly, why not ask what negative impact these very measures will have on people? (Like stalling the healthcare system and delaying treatment for other diseases that could, frankly, be far more dangerous and lethal than COVID-19.)
Or consider the economic blow to citizens through job losses and plummeting revenue... which inevitably pushes people into high-stress situations that leave their own lasting health issues.
All this based on a big fat "maybe."
(Maybe a cow will lay an egg?)
We need to approach this from a realist's perspective. These alarmists love obsessing over data, so let them run the numbers. How many lives were actually compromised by the virus versus how many were ruined by sheer stupidity in policy-making? I personally know far too many people who lost their livelihoods—educated professionals who had spent years building careers, all gone because of these measures.
The issue isn't the virus. The problem is that people have become fundamentally decayed and negligent regarding their own well-being, and now we finally have something that exposes it.
It’s like having rotten roof beams that have been sitting there for ten years, and then a heavy snowfall hits and the whole roof collapses on you. What do you do? You blame the snow. No. The snow was just the last straw.
The people listed as having died "from COVID" were likely already at death's door or ancient to begin with. Look, I know I sound blunt, but they didn't die "from the virus"—it’s a miracle they even lived long enough to catch it.
My grandfather passed away this year at 89 from pneumonia. "Pneumonia." Apparently, the fact that he was 88 years old and everything else about his health just suddenly didn't matter anymore.
Of course, losing someone isn't easy, but let’s be realistic—you can't exactly act surprised when both your nine-month-old car and your twenty-seven-year-old one finally give up the ghost at the same time. The human body is just another machine that requires maintenance and has a built-in expiration date. Besides, there's always the question of how each individual machine was originally designed.
After everything I’ve laid out, we arrive at one conclusion: natural selection.
Nicole James As requested by silverstag24:
It’s inevitable. The same crowd that’s been trashing the task force and their protocols will be the first ones demanding accountability from them the moment hospital beds start filling up, claiming they didn't do enough.
Explain to me why they’re closing hospitals, especially if they plan on moving people who actually NEED help into them, rather than just asymptomatic patients and people running a mild fever of 102°F.
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