Well there you go, empty hospitals not treating cancer patients because of covid is a bad thing.
The whole problem with calculating the death numbers is they don't account for how many of the dead people were severely sick and dying anyway. Like I said, the deaths from covid seem to be about the same percentage in every age group as people who would have died anyway. Hospice patients are counted as covid deaths. Positive test and getting hit by a bus 25 days later is counted as a covid death.
As for "taking it seriously," I'm not sure what you mean. I wear a "face covering" if I go buy cigarettes and stand a little further back in line than I normally would. Other than that, you're basically saying respecting the severity of the virus will make it go away, like appeasing an angry god or something.
My only point is this situation is being used to serve political agendas. Very sick old people are put into hospice with regular pneumonia in normal times.
The mask is an idiotic line to draw and Im not even arguing how horrible that is, but when they give a bunch of rubbers to an african village with an AIDS problem they teach them how to use them, they don't just generically post "Wear a dick covering" everywhere and tell people bandanas are good enough.
That's the problem. I see everyone in my town wearing masks to the point of driving with them on or just walking alone on the street. The blame on some imaginary people who are all licking each others tonsils conveniently makes it everyone's fault for not following the guidelines instead of the obvious conclusion that the guidelines aren't working. You're saying I need to take it more seriously, when all I'm doing is following the dumb rules and not living in fear.
I don't believe in these restrictions
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Well there you go, empty hospitals not treating cancer patients because of covid is a bad thing.
The whole problem with calculating the death numbers is they don't account for how many of the dead people were severely sick and dying anyway. Like I said, the deaths from covid seem to be about the same percentage in every age group as people who would have died anyway. Hospice patients are counted as covid deaths. Positive test and getting hit by a bus 25 days later is counted as a covid death.
As for "taking it seriously," I'm not sure what you mean. I wear a "face covering" if I go buy cigarettes and stand a little further back in line than I normally would. Other than that, you're basically saying respecting the severity of the virus will make it go away, like appeasing an angry god or something.
My only point is this situation is being used to serve political agendas. Very sick old people are put into hospice with regular pneumonia in normal times.
The mask is an idiotic line to draw and Im not even arguing how horrible that is, but when they give a bunch of rubbers to an african village with an AIDS problem they teach them how to use them, they don't just generically post "Wear a dick covering" everywhere and tell people bandanas are good enough.
That's the problem. I see everyone in my town wearing masks to the point of driving with them on or just walking alone on the street. The blame on some imaginary people who are all licking each others tonsils conveniently makes it everyone's fault for not following the guidelines instead of the obvious conclusion that the guidelines aren't working. You're saying I need to take it more seriously, when all I'm doing is following the dumb rules and not living in fear.