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Originally Posted by Opie
I can't stop laughing over the fear that has been instilled into so many over this virus. I'm still in a high risk group, still traveling around the country, to the stores, on airplanes, eating out at restaurants...have been wearing a mask around others and washing my hands, and, other than on airplanes, maintaining my distance....still caught the virus, was a "different" feel than others viruses/flu, but beat it in short order. Contact traced those who had been around me, none got it, stayed sequestered as per Dr orders, no one in my household got it. Have been offered the vaccine 3 times because of my "high risk" categorization and have decided against getting the vaccine until the trials, that you all are unknowingly participating in, are complete and it gets full FDA approval as I will not risk my rights against any potential liabilities the emergency use vaccines may cause as they will not be covered currently.
I have had multiple acquaintances that have also contracted the virus, some minor, some moderate, some major and even one that was fatal so I do not think this was a hoax, but it was certainly manipulated to cause an unnecessary amount of fear in the populous. |
There're two perspectives: the individual risk versus the population risk.
The individual statistically speaking is pretty low. I as an individual am low risk of dying, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. I have a peer that lost her mother and her own life in her upper 20's.
On a population scale, the lives lost due to COVID would have been astronomically unacceptable. And I agree with taking a serious response to COVID, and I wish others' took this seriously as well. Instead of running around spewing ridiculous claims about masks and fake health conditions. It's easy to say we're fine, even with our pretty shoddy response to COVID. Imagine if there was no response leading to literal millions of lives lost, and no, millions is not an exaggerated number. The entire country would be mourning and spewing crap like "if only we reacted better". Captain Hindsight comes out of the woodworks only after the problem. If the problem is prevented, then the success is its own downfall in the peoples' eyes as majority can't piece the cause and effects together.