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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]EVERYTHING about COVID has been distorted and politicized. The severity the number of deaths who has it who has had it where it came from ... everything. [/quote]
PP here: I didn’t say Covid wasn’t a serious illness fir some people. Deadly for some people. But that EVERYTHING about it has been distorted. Who had it? How many cases that were mild? How many people who were very old and weakened ? How many outliers were there? That is people who were surprisingly more sick than expected. There are 340M+ people in the US but each case is treated by the news as if it represents everyone. I know so many people including myself who had it mildly early on. [/quote]

I agree with this.  I know it can be horrific for many (I have a colleague who was sick for 5 weeks and still isn’t fully recovered).  I know it can be deadly (I have an uncle who died of Covid).  But I also think it’s be highly politicized and exaggerated by the media.  I think many of the lockdowns were unnecessary.  I live OOS and our school went back in person mid-August. We’ve had a total of 6 cases (all recovered) between students and faculty.  I’m not sure if the long-term damage socially and educationally to millions of students was necessary. [/quote]

This is a modified version of the Y2K fallacy. Had we not disrupted society, the numbers would have been *exponentially* worse, because that's how it works. That said, had we *really* shut things down and paid people to stay at home in a consistent, thorough way, sent out free masks, not pushed any form of COVID denialism like the above-- things would have been exponentially *better* and we could have spent most of the past 7-8 months living at least somewhat more freely (w/masks) than we did. We really ended up with the near-worst of both worlds.[/quote]

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