I don't know what agforlife said, but I have definitely noticed constantly shifting goal posts on this virus that continually find a new way to downplay it. Some people just won't accept that maybe we should stop treating this as just a "bad flu."Proposition Joe said:agforlife97 said:This is such an important point. From a high level, the country just seems to have had a psychotic break. It's as if 50% of the population or more just realized that death is a thing, and it's going to happen to them one day too. We're destroying the economy over a virus that killing tons of people who have already outlived their life expectancy. I have really lost a lot of faith in our policymaking process and frankly I think "science" has really discredited itself in worrying ways here.Cactus Jack said:
The most frustrating aspect to me is something you touched on several weeks ago. We have 40-year-olds who need to be in ICU and our ICU beds are currently occupied by a bunch of people who had no quality-of-life even before Covid. We had a lady on our floor who was in her late 80s, dementia, no movement on the right side due to a stroke, needing constant suctioning because she couldn't even clear her own secretions. She should have been in hospice months ago. Family wanted her to be a full code. We had to code her, probably broke half her ribs. Now taking up an ICU bed.
Back near the beginning you said the same thing... except you estimated 20,000 dead in the US... But same thing -- "virus killing tons of people who have already outlived their life expectancy".
You've been off, by a bit.
Seems like the # of dead really isn't going to change your view, it will only change once it hits closer to home.
(Cue someone to come in and say "just like some people can't admit that we over reacted" - which isn't entirely wrong either.)