CWGordon wrote:
Fetzler: I appreciate and respect your position and argument, however, I would prefer that you do not make statements about what I believe or don’t believe w/o knowing me.
I appreciate that your Mother took risks in giving birth. However, if available, I am sure she also had you given vaccines for such diseases as Polio, etc.
You are right about people making or taking risks. I don’t see peple committing suicide as big risk takers. Seemingly, they are running away from risks. I have known people who made this choice and feel greatly saddened by their loss of life and the pain it caused others.
Taking risks today with pandemics is often used as justification for not following guidelines responsible medical and scientific experts have recommended. The risk one takes in not following guidelines is not solely isolated to themselves. Lengthening, widening, worsening the Pandemic poses risks to others. Most people do not want to hide under a rock. That is far from being accurate. However, most people would like to feel more sure that the disease is really under control before being shut down a second time should there be evidence that we reopened too soon. There is nothing irresponsible in being cautious or in following sound medical advice.
We accept seat belts and helmets as cautionary and measures that cut down, not eliminate danger or harm to ones’ health. I have never liked helmet laws, but would never accept that my passenger should not wear one. I wore one always, but bridled at having to wear one. My common sense told me it was a law intended to protect me. Still, it was a risk others were willing to take, but no passenger should ever have been put at risk by a careless or reckless driver when they had no control over their situation. That is my analysis/correlation of my feelings re: risk and willingness to take it. Your risk rights end where my risk rights begin.
Thank you for your kindness in responding to my questions.
Fetzler: I appreciate and respect your position ... (
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Well,the truth about this 'pandemic' is hard to pin down. Firstly, the models vastly overestimated the mortality rate, because they vastly underestimated the infection rate. It seems in California they found that the infection rate was far greater than they were using for their models. This then led to finding that the mortality rate was 20 to 40 times lower. They found that most of those infected had mild to no symptoms, rendering the scare tactics bogus. This isn't to say that there aren't many severe cases and deaths, but that fact needs to be taken into consideration when making public policy. In point of fact, cost/risk benefit analysis is used every in all segments of society to make sometimes far reaching decisions. In this case, it turns out that the average person has a 1/20th to 1/10th of a % chance dying of Covid 19. Compare that to mortality rates for many other causes ( driving, for example), and the perspective changes. Life happens, and if we continually live in fear, we'll accomplish very little!