Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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EnricoPallazzo said:

JRPGfan said:

Have faith.
Poliovirus used to infect 350,000-400,000 every year (that they know about), and children would suffer nerve damage and paralaysis (and some die to it). Now its down to like 20-30 cases pr year, and mainly happends in like 2 countries in the world (where they didnt vaccinate).

Polio was for most people just "mild symptoms", and influenze like... but occasionally a adult with it, would pass it onto children.
Who would get much worse outcomes.

So again, another virus, that was hard to detect, and most wheren't aware they had, and they would unknowingly go around infecting others.
And the ones to suffer would be the kids, that ended up getting it.

Vaccines beat it.
Theres like 99.9% less polio in the world today, than just 50years ago.

Yes but as far as I know we didn't have to shut down our lives for one whole year because of polio. Also children infected had no choice. Today a person that is in the risk group has the option to isolate or make people that lives with them to isolate. There is no reason why you are not allowed to see people that are not in the risk group. There is not reason a group of 5, 10, 20, 50 people that have no contact with risk group people to not be able to see each other. I was reading about the average age for covid deaths in UK and it is pretty abysmal. The vast majority are people above 70. If you are under 60 and is not fat or have any otther serious condition than most likely nothing will happen to you. Everyone I know that got covid recovered pretty easily just staying home.

I'm just tired. I have been following the rules since the beginning and agree that at the start of the pandemic we had to take extraordinary measures, we didn't know much about the virus and the health are sector could collapse. But here we are almost one year later and we are still doing the same thing and making peoples lives miserable when it is clear this is not necessary. And most likely we will have to keep doing it for one more year at least until this is 100% erradicated.

Another problem is that a lot of people just don't want to take the vaccine, especially "minorities" and other groups that are being heavily impacted. So people will keep on being infected and dying and we will keep on being locked.

Sorry I'm just ranting. Its probably just frustration for not seeing a feasible end to all of this.

Of course you're getting frustrated when all you think about is nonsense.

There are more people dying from this virus than ever and you think we're doing fine and those measures aren't necessary? Just because the news has fatigued and isn't talking about it as dramatically anymore doesn't mean it's over. It's as bad as ever and the only reason why nothing has collapsed yet is

1. The measures you're so tired of are working!

2. The health sector has massively expanded capacity.

We're burying more people than ever, we just got more efficient at it. To say that we're doing fine is a fucking joke. It's winter now and it's going to get a lot worse, because a virus like that spreads like crazy in that season.

Yes, we're learning more and more about the virus. For example how even in asymptomatic or mild cases it can do lasting damage to the body. I'm not gonna stop social distancing and wearing a mask just because there is "only" a 0.1% chance for me to die or fuck up my body long term. I like living and I like being healthy, sorry if that is an inconvenience to you.