Penni T: They must be stark staring nuts to even be contemplating a protest march at this time! Get the water cannons out and give them a good drenching. If it’s 10° again… they won’t stick around for long!!!!
Going to Getugly: Or instead of acting hysterical and begging authority figures to control everyone, you could make an effort to understand the reality of this virus like an independent thinking, responsible adult:
“For people younger than 45, the infection fatality rate is almost 0%. For 45 to 70, it is probably about 0.05%-0.3%.”
– Dr. John Ioannidis, C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention, Professor of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Population Health, at Stanford University School of Medicine and co-Director, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford.
Dr. John Ioannidis: “Our data suggests that COVID-19 has an infection fatality rate that is in the same ballpark as seasonal influenza.”
The infection mortality rate for the seasonal flu is estimated at about 0.1%.
Penni T: My answer to this would be so far!! How many deaths are enough? Who in your family and friends are expendable?? What is the world up to now? Heading towards 750,000 now. Will a million be enough for you to say we need to stop this? That’s a nice round figure but as many are old and they were going to die anyway. but it will be too late then…. it will be in every house, in every street, in every town…. people will be dying in the street because there will be no room in hospitals, but that doesn’t matter because there will be no nurses or doctors left….all either died of exhaustion, totally given up or died of the virus… the time to stop the spread is now… Australia has been lucky (or well managed) so far….. let’s try and keep it that way.
Going to Getugly: Your ‘answer’ is ridiculous, anti-rational and anti-scientific.
Only people whose priority is protecting an attachment to a particular belief react to facts that refute it by generating justifications for dismissing the evidence.
This clearly isn’t about knowing what is true for you. It’s about believing a particular, catastrophic narrative.
There is something very weird going on with people these days. It appears they actually want to believe the most apocalyptic interpretation. So much so, they will actually deny and block from their awareness any facts and data that conflicts with the catastrophic narrative in their heads.
It’s very, very weird.
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