The Coronavirus

[nguyenivy]

(07-15-2021, 02:21 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(07-15-2021, 12:12 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(07-14-2021, 05:09 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The part I don't get is that Trump originally devised his no response reaction to Covid to keep the economy going.  Any attempt to save lives in the early days would hurt the economy and thus Trump's chances for reelection.  These days, vaccination helps the economy, but the red culture still suggests taking no precautions.

But I guess putting politics ahead of lives is Trump's way.

Case in point via Ron DeSantis:

Not much is worth mass death. Even military victory at great cost assumes that defeat implies even greater death. Figure that America's war deaths are much smaller than the Jewish population of the United States at the time, and we all know what Satan Incarnate would have done to America's Jewish population had he had the chance. 

The SARS-2 virus is arguably the most destructive enemy that America has faced since Hitler and Tojo. Say what you want about our Commie rivals during the Cold War, they at least valued their own lives about as much as our economic elites cherished theirs, which explains why the principle of Mutually Assured Doctrine made life far safer than rabid chauvinism. 

I just saw video on CNN on the computer (I am no longer on cable, so video breaks up) in which a COVID-19 widow saw her husband in his late stages as his oxygen-saturation went into the critical zone in the low 70's. He pled that his children get inoculated... and they were inoculated the next day. Minot, North Dakota. No previously-existing conditions. 

People are still dying, almost all of them the ones who did not get inoculated.     

Over four million people have been murdered by this virus. A few months ago I compared it to the death toll of the most horrible battle (Stalingrad) in modern times. You know what obvious comparison is next.

The other thing is time: Over 4 million dead in ~19 months (the vast majority really in the last 15 months). There are wars which killed fewer people & lasted longer. Even within just the US - projections have us around 1 million dead since March 2020. The Civil War was 4 years long & about 750k died there. I wonder how many people would've been saved had the world treated this with a war-like attitude of 'stop this thing using whatever tools it takes'. Would a worldwide 30-day shutdown/stay home order followed by 6 months of totally closed international borders in March 2020 have caused more harm than what we got? The virus at that time had only a 14-day incubation period, so if everyone on the planet didn't leave home for 30 straight days, it would've automatically stopped circulating.