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Originally Posted by twinklesweep
I completely agree. People are free to choose their own comfort level—and free to ignore the small-minded comments about their carefulness. We see fairly consistently what happens in areas in the US and around the world when they are opened up for reasons that seem to defy public health policy—and one doesn’t have to be Nostradamus to be aware of this.
I could never wrap my head around the thinking that the percentages are so small that the disease is inconsequential overall. Remember that these now 200,000+ deaths—whether directly from COVID-19 or from a complicating issue that they had learned to live with, perhaps for many years—these are individual lives and families struggling through a terrible tragedy....
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An excellent and thoughtful post. Kudos! But also, I could add that besides the statistic of the plus 200,000 deaths, there are also large numbers of patients that LIVED, but went through very tortured days in the hospital. Some were then released, which was very good. But, some have not fully recovered for as long as 6 months. Some others have felt well for awhile only to have some other new physical problem arise. The bottom line is perhaps 300,000 people have already either DIED or had serious torture due to CV. AND what of all the children that are asymptomatic? Will they suddenly encounter problems when they get to middle age? Much is NOT known about CV.
My humble opinion is that the US has played Russian roulette with this disease by not mandating masks and not taking hundreds of steps that could have suppressed the Virus. And it is too LATE!