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| RolStoppable said: The worst thing about all the COVID-19 measures is that their purpose is to protect the vulnerable, many of which unwilling to take the step to get vaccinated. There's nothing more frustrating than making huge efforts to help people who don't give a damn, so again, no surprise that more and more people got tired of living according to the measures. Someone in this thread cited how a study found that lockdowns saved three million lives in Europe. That sounds good on the surface, but when the consequence is that easily ten times as many people began to suffer from depressions, especially kids and teenagers, then even the biggest defenders of lockdowns should ask themselves if it's a smart thing to sacrifice the young generation in order to protect the lives of old people who don't contribute to society's wealth anymore and wouldn't have to live many more years to begin with. All these short term gains will be more than wiped out by all the long term damage and that's before we get into talking about all the businesses that had to file for bankruptcy due to the COVID-19 measures. A bigger emphasis on each person's own responsibility would have been a much better course of action to get through this pandemic. The people most in danger of dying from COVID-19 were always very old people, so exactly the people for whom it was the easiest to avoid contact with other people. They weren't working jobs anymore, they were usually not living with their kids anymore, so the biggest hazards to be prone to infection didn't exist for them. They could have isolated themselves without negative consequences for their finances; that is, if they were worried about their well-being due to the coronavirus. In reality a lot of old people have the attitude that they live their life, and if shit happens, it happens. So about the only measure that should have been pushed through is... ...masks in closed spaces and masks in open spaces with lots of people tightly together. Wearing a mask takes so little effort, yet it helps so much in protecting yourself and others. Virtually everything else could have been achieved with self-responsibility. There are times when other viruses are around and people say for themselves that they won't go to a party or an event, because they don't want to risk it during those given two to four weeks it takes for such a wave to die down. But we've got all these measures, many of which have gone oberboard or are completely unnecessary, and the consequence is increased sympathy for political parties who consist of morons, simply because these morons can operate on the principle that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Granted, this analogy isn't perfect because said political parties are usually against masks as well, but the message that more freedom wouldn't be doomsday for humanity rings true. They can't convey it in a respectable manner because they don't believe in science, but growing frustration in the population makes people acceptant of agreeing with people who get something right despite it being for all the wrong reasons. A reactionary post, I guess. |
Some many things wrong in that post :/
The worst thing about all the COVID-19 measures is that their purpose is to protect the vulnerable, many of which unwilling to take the step to get vaccinated.
Where did you get that idea? Every vulnerable person I know got the vaccine asap, as well as isolating themselves as much as possible for years now.
I linked that article about the 3 million lives saved in Europe. That was in June 2020 after the initial lock downs. If you had read the article it also states that that estimate only holds up if the healthcare system would have been able to cope with that level of patients needing intensive care. Without the lock downs we would have been much worse off.
The initial lock downs worked, plain and simple. Depressions came later as people unwilling to keep social distancing etc kept fueling the pandemic. It was mostly this younger generation you are so worried about that kept on partying, ignoring gathering rules and thus kept spreading the virus. They shot themselves in the foot, disrupting the economy more than was necessary, throwing their own future away cause fun comes first.
About only the old non working had to be protected https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
Plus people that are too sick too work can't keep the lights on. Omicron's biggest problem here was staff shortages, up to 30% people absent, unable to come to work. The amount of hospitalizations were less than from Delta, yet the hospitals were just as close to the brink due to 30% of the staff being sick at home. e had to bring back people out of retirement (the useless ones as you call them) and have people keep working while sick to be able to keep the hospitals going.
Self-responsibility doesn't work, too many people are not responsible at all.
What did contribute to anxiety in my children is the continued uncertainty, constant flip flopping as politics keeps getting swayed by the loudest voices. Then the terrible online learning process which never got better, actually it got worse. And it getting drawn out because too many people couldn't do their part to slow the pandemic, thus having to have many months long lock downs instead of 2 weeks to break the chain of infection.
We didn't go over board, we didn't do enough. I wonder how depressed people in New Zealand got? The one democratic country that managed to keep Covid-19 under control.
