RolStoppable said:
A virus is only easier to combat because politicians have no spine. If they weren't servants of capitalism, then it would be clear to everyone that combating a virus is not easier. The coronavirus made peoples all around the world unite together because it was played up to be an immense threat despite being something that the vast majority was easily going to survive without any lasting drawbacks for their health. Meanwhile, there are much bigger problems with more severe consequences that keep leaving people cold. That makes it very easy to be cynical about humanity's grasp of common sense. Just like the high approval ratings of politicians who ordered strict corona measures, simply because not a lot of people died, completely ignoring that there was never going to be a big number to die because of COVID to begin with. But what can you do when the media has hammered the threat of corona into people's heads by continuously highlighting the worst cases instead of pointing to how many people got off easily. The thing that bothers me the most about all those corona measures is that no country went with the simple idea of isolating its risk groups from the rest of the population instead of isolating everyone. The cherry on top is that old people are the most likely to not go along with the measures for reasons like having no faith in politics because they've become numb over decades of lies and deception, or having already experienced so many other crises that they know that it's always made out to be much worse than it really is. Thankfully, the vaccines are coming. Because otherwise we would have politicians repeat the same thing again and again. |
Places with fewer deaths due to corona virus, have populations that appreciate their politicans more than otherway around?
Who would have guessed.
"completely ignoreing that there was never going to be a big number to die because of COVID to begin with"
What is a big number? So far world wide, in less than 1 year, its killed more than 1.8m (offical number).
(while the true number is probably alot higher)
Also the vaccines wont magically fix things, deaths will keep riseing throughout 2021, possibly 2022.
(who can say when this goes away?)
"But what can you do when the media has hammered the threat of corona into people's heads by continuously highlighting the worst cases instead of pointing to how many people got off easily."
Even if Mortality rate is between 1,5% - 3% (offical number, going by worldometers.info).
And say,.... maybe ~10% of all that get it, have some form of lasting damage.
People focus on the bad, because you have no reason to fear the good.
Its only natural. Also a little fear, is a good thing, if it keeps people from ignoreing it (which too many do) or forgetting we have a pandemic on our hands, and not doing their part to stop spread of it.
"The thing that bothers me the most about all those corona measures is that no country went with the simple idea of isolating its risk groups from the rest of the population instead of isolating everyone."
Sweden tried that, then regreted it, and started doing prevention too.
Basically its hard to keep staff & patients in nurseing homes isolated.
It sounds easy, but try to see how many people you can convince to lock themselves into a nurseing home for a year or two, without leaveing it.
(its the only way to really protect "at risk groups" from the rest of the population)
Also the elderly and their loved ones, will complain "my rights" "s/he's old and dying, why cant I go visit my gramps/grandma ect".
You run into issues eitherway.
Its failed everywhere they tried it (ei. keeping at risk groups safe is proveing hard).
As long as you dont lock it down, and keep staff locked in, along with patients eventually the corna gets in.
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