COVID is a risk factor for pneumonia...like all respiratory diseases are. Same goes for the common cold. There's nothing there that makes COVID unique.
There's no way there are anywhere near as many pneumonia infections as there are COVID cases. I can get stats, but I shouldn't have to.
The reality is that you cannot 'hide' the infection from the populace - we should be accepting that we will get it and scale up our medical services accordingly.
However, this is not the proposed solution. Instead, we are shuttering our economy and causing more deaths by destroying people financially.
We know the vast majority of people who catch this aren't going to die from it, so why would we take on the enormous financial burden of trying to self-contain the entire globe when it would be more effective to simply increase the options for treatment?
This solution isn't preventing deaths, it's adding to them. Domestic violence and suicides have increased significantly as a direct result of those policies, and yet we don't get 24/7 coverage of those deaths.
This is very similar to the climate change alarmism of two years ago - they say they want to reduce emissions, but the plan was actually to tax emissions and move production of those emissions from the West to China (where emissions increases were part of their plan, very strange) . Basically the goal was to transfer wealth from the West to authoritarian control.
Fun fact: The US achieved huge emissions reductions by switching to natural gas/shale. The environmental activists never like to talk about that.
The lockdowns achieved the same result. Goodbye small business. Hello Amazon and all of those cheapo goods from China. How convenient.
COVID is a risk factor for pneumonia...like all respiratory diseases are. Same goes for the common cold. There's nothing there that makes COVID unique.
There's no way there are anywhere near as many pneumonia infections as there are COVID cases. I can get stats, but I shouldn't have to.
The reality is that you cannot 'hide' the infection from the populace - we should be accepting that we will get it and scale up our medical services accordingly.
However, this is not the proposed solution. Instead, we are shuttering our economy and causing more deaths by destroying people financially.
We know the vast majority of people who catch this aren't going to die from it, so why would we take on the enormous financial burden of trying to self-contain the entire globe when it would be more effective to simply increase the options for treatment?
This solution isn't preventing deaths, it's adding to them. Domestic violence and suicides have increased significantly as a direct result of those policies, and yet we don't get 24/7 coverage of those deaths.
This is very similar to the climate change alarmism of two years ago - they say they want to reduce emissions, but the plan was actually to tax emissions and move production of those emissions from the West to China (where emissions increases were part of their plan, very strange) . Basically the goal was to transfer wealth from the West to authoritarian control.
Fun fact: The US achieved huge emissions reductions by switching to natural gas/shale. The environmental activists never like to talk about that.
The lockdowns achieved the same result. Goodbye small business. Hello Amazon and all of those cheapo goods from China. How convenient.