The left uses emotional arguments to advocate for lockdowns. So I actually think statistics are useful to refute the left. Like the median age of those who died with COVID is 85 in Peel and it's around there for most of the rest of Canada. The left usually follows by saying that old lives matter too. I follow up by asking people if it's moral for the old to eat the young and they don't respond to that. Or they start resorting to ad hominem attacks instead of attacking your argument by that point.
When the median age of death with COVID is 85, it's basically a bad flu. What's the median age of death for flu? Probably about the same. My granpa died of pneumonia at 85. And I don't recall my parents freaking the fuck out about that. When I saw him on his death bed, I just saw it as a situation where an old person was dying. And I accepted that as a part of life.
My dad (whose 72 and has prostate cancer. But he went through his treatment, his PSA levels are normal now, his cancer cells shrunk. He is in good health other than that. His cancer is symptomless) is terrified of WuFlu. And his life is literally eat, sleep, shit, piss, watch TV, garden (not now because it's too cold outside), lmao. So he is totally for the lockdowns. And it drives me nuts.
I have been shamed by members of my own family for seeing my girlfriend for fear that I'm gonna catch the virus and put my dad in the ICU or cemetery. The level of emotional manipulation and gaslighting that young people have to deal with during this "pandemic" is insane. I have been called selfish by my own family for fucking my gf. lol.
It shouldn't shock me that our society is having the old eat the young. Since that is essentially what CPP and Social Security (in the US) is. Pensions are a ponzi scheme where the young pay for the old.
The left uses emotional arguments to advocate for lockdowns. So I actually think statistics are useful to refute the left. Like the median age of those who died with COVID is 85 in Peel and it's around there for most of the rest of Canada. The left usually follows by saying that old lives matter too. I follow up by asking people if it's moral for the old to eat the young and they don't respond to that. Or they start resorting to ad hominem attacks instead of attacking your argument by that point.
When the median age of death with COVID is 85, it's basically a bad flu. What's the median age of death for flu? Probably about the same. My granpa died of pneumonia at 85. And I don't recall my parents freaking the fuck out about that. When I saw him on his death bed, I just saw it as a situation where an old person was dying. And I accepted that as a part of life.
My dad (whose 72 and has prostate cancer. But he went through his treatment, his PSA levels are normal now, his cancer cells shrunk. He is in good health other than that. His cancer is symptomless) is terrified of WuFlu. And his life is literally eat, sleep, shit, piss, watch TV, garden (not now because it's too cold outside), lmao. So he is totally for the lockdowns. And it drives me nuts.
I have been shamed by members of my own family for seeing my girlfriend for fear that I'm gonna catch the virus and put my dad in the ICU or cemetery. The level of emotional manipulation and gaslighting that young people have to deal with during this "pandemic" is insane. I have been called selfish by my own family for fucking my gf. lol.
It shouldn't shock me that our society is having the old eat the young. Since that is essentially what CPP and Social Security (in the US) is. Pensions are a ponzi scheme where the young pay for the old.
The scared people are the people who don't understand numbers, who actually are afraid of numbers because they are math-illiterate.
There's two groups going along here - the conflict-avoidant and the very scared. I agree, stats won't help either of those groups.