I still remember the discussions when it still was China's problem. People were already speculating that the virus might have spread across the globe. When the first European countries got hit and basic data was available, the deaths of millions was already predicted in academia. Scientists knew this would become a real problem.
This simply shows that most humans are incapable of risk assessment and unwilling to take measures in advance.
Instead, they rather wait for shit to hit the fan and then deal with the problem applying reactionary "solutions". It's the same bs with all our (global) issues: the vast majority is not going to take it seriously until it's too late, until they experience the negative impact themselves - and even that can't beat chronic denial.
Our species really has to change on a fundamental level.
When you think about it, human evolution happens on the scale of millions of years, yet our recorded history is what -- maybe 20k at most? We could be generous and call it 100k. Either way, that still means we're the stupidest possible species to have formed a modern society. Like, we crossed some bare-minimum evolutionary threshold, and there hasn't been enough time or genetic engineering to advance further. We think of ourselves as smart but that's only cause we compare ourselves to apes. Future humans who have evolved or (more likely) engineered themselves will look at all of us like we look at chimps.
We are the bare minimum of what it takes to form a modern society.
I work in biotech, and my coworkers and I were eating lunch in March chatting about what was about to happen. Everyone was casual and was like "we'll be back to work in about 6 weeks." I stayed quiet for a couple minutes then said, "in about 2 weeks, you are going to start to see some shit. And in about a month or two, we'll see the real shit and we'll know how fucked we are.". People blinked, and then kinda laughed me off. Everyone got on board shortly thereafter. I know what you mean.
Because most of the people dying are either in other countries. Or old people and minorities who can't afford health care.
Nearly 600k americans have died because of misinformation. That's a pretty grim number when you put it next to the 465k americans who died liberating europe from a regime that killed 6+ million and all they had to do was go through the 20 minute inconvience of getting a vaccine. We're not drafting them and handing them a rifle
More than 600k to be precise. But that's just the official number, my guess is there are a few 10k of deaths that weren't attributed to but were caused by corona.
Way more than that. The most reliable measure is a statistical comparison of deaths across the last 5-10 years. There's been about 1 million "excess deaths" since covid started, the vast majority most likely attributable to it. (This would include people without Covid who died because they couldn't get an ICU bed, for example.)
The true death toll is probably just shy of a million.
I constantly hear the argument that the numbers are inflated and they're including people who had the virus and died due to car wreck or some silly shit like that. While I don't disbelieve there may be places inflating the numbers, there are probably about as many underreporting.
People are so infuriating at this point. I work with a bunch of anti vax folks. They all REALLY love to spout “the flu kills more people” or what ever other dumb shit they think….
Well, wouldn’t you like to NOT be one of the people it kills?
I think them not taking the vaccine spits in the face of every person and every family that has been effected by this. To include the people who have FREAKIN DIED FROM IT!
Nah. Too extreme. I think we should just let hospitals electively discontinue covid-related services to people who are electively unvaccinated in order to make room for other people.
Just having to have nightly blackouts.... Just a sea of lights. "Why do we keep getting bombed? Shit luck I guess. Hey, party at my place! I have fireworks!"
Not true at all. The generally unhealthier you are, the more fatal it is. For instance, obese individuals are at much greater fatality risk than non-obese.
During the first wave, I sent an email to my family saying they needed to take things seriously because "more people will die than world war 2" . Well, here we are.
I was just recommended a YouTube video about how viruses mutate to become less deadly so now the antivaxxers have a new thing to argue like braindead imbeciles about.
Covid is so dangerous because it doesn't just annihilate everyone like Ebola, which is so lethal that it's difficult to spread. On account of being too good at killing its host.
Stupid mfers still don't get why that 'low 1% fatality rate is why Covid became a pandemic not a regional disease...
Viruses mutating into less deadly variant is not a good thing ffs. Imagine if ebola or sars became less lethal like Covid and people just spread that shit around...
I remember last April when I was looking at data and telling people that we were going to be seeing this killing more people than 9/11 killed in a single day as a regular occurrence if national behavior didn't radically change. I remember repeatedly being told that I was a moron and that I was just trying to scare people...
same. 3 weeks before we shutdown i told coworkers to get basic supplies for the homes and keep a week ahead on groceries. was told i’m the “covid guy” and teased that i was probably reading pandemic news instead of working. we shut down and that afternoon coworker said he didn’t know what they’d have for dinner as they hadn’t gone shopping and the stores were packed w people panic buying everything.
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And then he gets it, and he says "it wasn't so bad."
As if he doesn't arguably have access to the best healthcare in human existence.
Just downplaying something that's killed thousands and grinded the world to a halt.