mtcan wrote:People are really losing their minds over a virus that you have a very low chance of getting to begin with and have a near zero chance of dying from? If THIS is the response to such a relatively minor virus
Your words, bruh...not mine.
Ok my bad. Let me clarify by what I mean. I don't think covid is on the level of the flu as it is definitely more serious than that, but on the otherhand I don't believe the virus is serious enough to be worthy of all the panic and extreme measures we've taken in order to try fruitlessly to contain the spread even as all the data from around the world shows this virus to be largely non-lethal to the vast majority of people who get it. If this virus wasn't as infectious as it was, we wouldn't be shutting down anything over it all this time because of how non-lethal this virus is otherwise. That's pretty much the only thing remarkable about this virus.
No one wants the virus but the chances are low? The chances of getting the virus with appropriate precautions and with public health measures applied are low...but everyone has to respect the threat and not down play it, unlike you.
The Japanese haven't taken many precautions outside of mask wearing and perhaps washing hands. They certainly aren't going out of their way to social distance as you can plainly see in any video of Japan these days and yet despite having over 3 times the population of Canada and having 35 million seniors which is 2 million short of Canada's entire population, their number of deaths to date is still at 1,600. Somehow the Japanese government allowing their people to live mostly normal lives and not constantly keeping them in fear of the virus hasn't led to tens of thousands of deaths even among their huge senior population which are suppose to be the most vulnerable group to the virus.
And here's one for you, the Japanese authorities aren't even stopping people from having parties and concerts and such. There's literally a guy on Twitch who lives in Japan who livestreamed himself at a huge music festival yesterday with thousands of people and the Japanese authorities didn't go nuts and shut everything down worrying about virus spread. Funny how the country that allows its people to live mostly normally throughout the pandemic is the one that has a much lower number of deaths than Canada or practically every other nation that chose to shutdown.
I don't care that 2 people under 20 have died...but I do care that people in their 20s and 30s will get it and eventually spread it to others...and eventually it WILL find its way to the more vulnerable. This is the issue. **** 20 year olds that only care about themselves and can't see past themselves and their own wellbeing. Nursing homes are still experiencing outbreaks and it isn't the nursing home residents that are at those bars and restaurants catching it. It's through a chain of transmission. It's everyone's responsibility to break the chain of infection. That's really the point.
You can break that 'chain of transmission' easily without destroying people's lives and livelihoods by simply testing workers frequently and restricting and testing family members and friends before allowing them to visit. If things still get worse in those long term care homes, then you simply shutdown visits and isolate that facility. Done and done.
You don't need to bankrupt thousands of small businesses and place millions of Canadians in financial hardship to prevent the spread of the virus into long term care facilities. We want to save as many people as possible, but at some point the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few and we've gone far past that point long ago.
Unless you truly believe the facts are wrong and you're right, then stop fearmongering and being part of the problem of spreading unnecessary panic.