Originally Posted by
macdo
It really isn't, you know. In the event of an unsuccessful search for a vaccine, this is the new normal. Everyone gets it and a horrible amount of old and vulnerable will die. It will come as a shock to Western societies that death hasn't been largely vanquished or offloaded onto those that make inappropriate lifestyle choices. In other parts of the world, people live with life threatening diseases in their societies, malaria for example, treat such things as just another of lifes risks and you get on with life as best you can.
Spot on. It's in a gross misrepresentation of the facts to suggest that an acknowledgment that economic reality dictates that all lives cannot be saved is akin to a policy of eugenics and euthanasia. People are displaying an incredibly childish level of naivety if they honestly believe that economic considerations won't, in the near future, outweigh prolonging a few (in statistical terms) lives. We're already seeing that in the USA.