Now your posts originally started somewhere else with the crux of it being that the people protesting to reopen had reasons for it. This has been discussed here already: the Trump administration failed to take all the data from the situation in Wuhan and act accordingly. Everything we experienced here was on a month to two month lag time with the SEA countries and Wuhan.
All the people in the US are acting like this is something new. Wuhan and other Chinese provinces were having protests over the rent for their businesses around late february and mid march. There were already articles on restaurants and other businesses struggling without getting much help etc. The only difference is that the USA was in a position to do something about it and fucking didn’t.
This is intentionally misleading. The virus isn’t spread evenly across the whole country because this is a massive land mass. El Paso isn’t overwhelmed yet but cases are rising, deaths are slowly ticking up too.
Those TikTok videos are dumb as fuck and not helping any. that’s what the story should actually be: These fucking idiots are making people take a serious situation less so.
Now the problem with your line of thinking, or the immense clusterfuck you’ve dropped on this site is that you’ve chastized Maine on their lockdown. The problem is that their lockdown is to prevent the NYC situation. Everybody is reducing exposure precisely for all the reasons.
That Mail Online article on ventilators? Cool. If people aren’t doing the proper treatment in NYC and its leading to increase, why then would you be okay with actions that increase the likelihood of those outcomes in other places?
Taking the uncertainty in treatments and issue surrounding it doesn’t magically mean you reopen everything. The fact that overloaded health systems are creating situations where treatment is bad (which has been what a handful of us have tried ot warn people about here on SRK for a good while) is the reason why China has shut down immensely. But lets talk about some good ol’ chinese bullshit since you accidentally brought it up.
When CoVid blew up in China, China started doing exactly this. They were so overwhelmed by bodies that they couldn’t be fucked to actually figure out just what the shit was going on. So doctors started doing the opposite. Even though CoVid can cause Pneumonia, they just labeled it as Pneumonia to lower the severity of the situation. CoVid can also cause heart problems and issues with other organs. Hell early on there was a big report on testicular pain involving CoVid.
But hey, lets take the CCP attitude towards it and start fucking around with numbers. Because what you’re saying by stating this is that China was right early on in how they fudged numbers, so we should fudge numbers now to make things feel better for people. Then the W.H.O. can go to bat for the USA like they did with China.
What you’re asking is for a massive logistics issue, which is the amount of autopsies you’d have to do and the things that go with them, to be performed as numbers stack up. How many coroners are we going to keep around the clock so they can double check every single body that drops? China just tossed everybody into crematories and called it a day.
And you know what? Influenza is deadly much in the same way but people still attribute the deaths to the it. A regular adult can die of influenza. People with comorbidities, one of them being age, can get dropped hard by it. So this leads to serious and early vaccine drives on an early basis in as a preventative measure.
So if CoVid aggravates a situation that normally wouldn’t kill you, CoVid didn’t do shit. Because apaprently having a disease that spreads like wildfire and can aggravate the fuck out of anything you have isn’t that big of a deal. Much less of an issue is that it will dropkick people with weak immune systems (which can come from a host of things).
I’d go further point by point but fuck it. Not like you’re going to read this and change your mind. But hopefully everybody else learned something. Or at least took some time to understand the bigger issues going on with the this situation.
