JeppsOnFire wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 9:07 am
Dearest Rockie,
I do hope you put your helmet on today. You know, reduce the risk.
You continually harp about the ‘experts’ and the ‘consensus’ on an approach to Covid. Whose experts? Putin’s experts? China’s experts? Maybe Italy’s experts or how about Sweden? The WHO? The same WHO that is clearly politically motivated or the WHO in all their righteousness has claimed Sweden’s response was the correct one?
These ‘experts’ are all fallible. Prone to bias and influence. Whose experts do you listen to? Never mind, you’re very predictable. Like the NPC (non playable character). There are Conservative experts and Liberal experts. Socialist experts and capitalist experts. All clamouring ‘truth’ about how to respond to this pandemic.
You should consider the reliability of experts, even en masse. I had an aunt whom the experts (several) said she was fine it’s just an ulcer or reflux. She’s expertly dead from colon cancer.
Then there are the numbers which you would presume to be infallible. Yet, obviously, even the numbers are susceptible to bias. Deaths to attributes to Covid when the virus was secondary to cause of death. What numbers of infected truly exist without a positive test.
At the very beginning when the information bank was low and the situation was terrifying in Italy, I started to feel a little under the weather. I stayed at home for 3 weeks for fear of putting someone I know at risk. Didn’t leave my property. I did that because no one knew very much about this thing. That has changed. The world is no longer at the mercy of opinion now that we have experience.
Now, with all the information we’ve learned, with ICU’s in my area operating at 5% capacity, seeing the severe cases congregated amongst the older crowns. Keeping hygiene and personal space a priority - I agree with those that it’s time to emerge from this.
Plenty of people say protect the elderly and you rebuke them with ‘it’s not possible’. Well, how is it possible to protect the ENTIRE population as you suggest is prevailing course of action? Overwhelming number of NYC cases were reported to occur in the shelter at home population.
As it has always been: balancing risk, not eliminating it.
Yes, I realize this post was a waste of time. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.