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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
Thank you for the touching story Tal. I had a friend recently die from COVID-19. He was a strong healthy 56 year old before succumbing to this disease. You can quote all the statistics you like and talk about people who died from complications of a hangnail, but the fact is this is a dangerous virus that should be treated seriously. Some talk about the death rate being less than 1% as though that is trivial, well for the ones that die and their families and their friends it is far from trivial. The cavalier attitude,and lack of empathy by some people is appalling.
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I think we simply have different personalities and different ways of assessing risks.
I will ask you to defer to the experts on this one. The WHO has stated that shutdowns have been catastrophic to communities, sending people into despair and poverty. The WHO does not recommend shutdowns saying that they do far more harm than good. The CDC has stated that children are safer in school and that they should be receiving face to face instruction. I look at this information and, to me, that means that we need to stop worrying so much about things that are really beyond our control. Medical doctors are saying that we need to keep working and sending our kids to school or risk catastrophic and irreversible damage to our communities.
Wear a mask, maintain good social distance but realize that the people eating out at restaurants, shopping at the stores, taking fitness classes at the gyms, attending schools are helping to keep our communities thriving, too. We need to stop second guessing each other and work on mitigating our own risks as necessary.