vivster said:
Doesn't really matter. A virus is way easier to combat than established bad habits. You could say the same about smoking and drinking, but it's moot to talk about it. It's only logical to tackle the easier to solve problem first or maybe do both at the same time? It's not like people have stopped caring about other issues during the pandemic. |
I mean, most never cared about other issues, to begin with. 9 million people died of hunger last year. 3 million were children under 5. I strongly suspect that would take less financial resources and logistic planning to solve than vaccinating everyone for Covid and instead, here we are, shocked that retired boomers in developed countries are dying above usual rates.
Whataboutism? I'd rather consider it relevant context to determine whether certain attitudes or concerns are actually fair and not merely deflections...
I mean, so many people are like oooh 2020 is the worst year ever. Pal, you don't need to go more than ten or fifteen years to the past to find out, for the average human being, in terms of life expectancy, income, etc., that life was worse than this, all the time.
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