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Originally Posted by zx10guy
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Originally Posted by ASAP
I don't think this thing is going away anytime soon and the vaccines at this point are nothing but pipe dreams...
Do we?
1) risk everything and open everything? Isolate only the vulnerable?
2) close down and spiral into the great depression?
For option 1, get ready for deaths... for option 2, get ready for a socialist state for probably a year or so... and the govt better do a little more than $1200 a month (i don't see this happening).
No easy decisions here at all. So far, nothing in any country has worked and cases are surging everywhere again. Neither Biden nor Trump have any plan for this other than to appeal to their constituents.
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In my opinion, option 1 should have been what was done. It's a lot easier to control a smaller at risk population than to lock down everyone with the large population and land mass of the US.
What gets lost in this discussion and will probably never be brought up in any significant way is how unhealthy and fat the general US population is. One of the comorbidities listed is obesity. This is in many ways is self inflicted and totally preventable. We talk about treatments and vaccines but not the other part which is leading a more healthy life style. I know there will be the segment that will say so and so was an athlete, got Covid, and died. While it's unfortunate something like this can happen, it's a game of statistics. When you look at the overall deaths where healthy/fit people have died it's miniscule. I know all about being a victim of statistics as I had nothing in my health history which would lead me to get two separate cancers yet I won the lottery. |
The moment body shaming became a no no... we screwed ourselves. If you don't tell a fat person they are unhealthy and offend / motivate them to change, you have created a bigger problem in itself.