Originally Posted by
ScepticalOptomist
This has been the problem all along - people just see numbers with no context and allow themselves to be suckered in by fear mongering.
80,000 lives lost is sad for sure, but context is everything. I acknowledge CV has killed people in large numbers, I just don’t buy the mass fear campaign.
But you do agree that so far only a small fraction of the population has been infected? And that the death rate is approximately 2%, and there are long term effects for perhaps 30% of the others? Extrapolate that out to a 100% infection incidence, who the hell is going to provide acute care for that many people, bury that many people and provide chronic care for that many people?
There was always going to be a race between the virus and the vaccine, and those countries that understood that have suffered fewer deaths and costs.