5x5 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:44 amIt's all about perspective which the pursuit of Covid has lost. And the chart doesn't even have the worst killer of all - starvation. Which is at almost 6,500,000 this year (10 times Covid) and would be easily eradicated through the simple supply of money and food. But we don't do that because it doesn't potentially impact us in the 1st world - we can't catch it, we can't give it to anyone else near and dear to us and best of all it mostly happens in another part of the world.
Perhaps perspective has been replaced by fear. It seems like most people I talk to aren’t ready to take the gamble with covid and their health. I know many vulnerable people close to me that could be finished if they caught it and it’s a tough thought to wrestle with. Maybe I’m a scaredy-cat, who knows. Maybe if they were already dead and buried, or young and in perfect health, I would think differently. The point is, we all hold a different pair of dice.
Even if we do learn to simply “live with it” (an ironic expression considering people would have to die), for the near future, many more people will continue to die from covid. Without restrictions, it’d be millions. We can lock it down and economically kill people off instead, but at the end of the day, someone is going to have to take the sacrifice through all this. There’s no moral easy way out.
For those of us who are facing unemployment, these times can be stressful, frustrating, and make us feel angry. However, the more we can put aside these negative emotions, deal with what we’ve got, and focus on the relationships in our lives, I think the better off we will be.