No, that's not what I said. On the flip side i can say that you think people unnecessarily dying is a perfectly acceptable side effect of opening up too early. Which is fine, it's a thing a lot of people feel, even if they wont admit it. Also, you call it china virus, so you have exposed yourself as a trumper. It's unfortunate, I would have liked this discussion to be outside of politics, or the dumb antagonistic shit politicians say to get a rise out of people. Rather if we can have discourse together without even knowing where the other person stands politically would be cool. Just an intersection of opinion an ideas without the antagonism we see in washington.
Yes extreme measures were necessary for this, but not the seasonal flu. 60k deaths is a big number. Doesnt mean the flu is more deadly than corona virus though. Keep a few factors in mind: seasonal flu kicks in usually around october. From october-april is where we get those 60k deaths in the flu season. imagine if covid hit us in october? holy shit. We have lost 25k people to covid19. First death confirmed February 29. It's been 6 weeks, and we have 25k now. The flu doesnt kill 25k people in 6 weeks. So that's one thing. Another thing is that our deaths are "only" 25k due to the extreme measures we have taken. Statistical models and common sense would tell us due to incubation time and rate of infection that we'd have at least twice the deaths, and who knows, maybe 3-4x more infections with the same measures that we take for the seasonal flu. (virtually none). Does this make sense to you or is that fake news? Cause i truly honestly feel that makes perfect sense. We'll know more as more data is made available- but i will say the data we are seeingout of different health agencies and countries, who dont necessarily coordinate, their data is pretty consistent, for the most part.
So that's my stance. Maybe you understand, maybe you'll be intentionally obtuse. Who knows.
