on_one_wheel wrote:Plenty of Australians don't seem to be taking it seriously, some think it's not even real.
Meanwhile, they're digging mass graves in New York to cope with the death toll.
It's been killing aprox 5000 people per day worldwide for the last 3 months.
A great example of fake news.
That island has been used to bury people who can't afford other services or who have no family for decades now. So it's very convenient for the media to snap these photos to concoct the narrative they want. 20 million people live in the NYC metro area and hundreds of people die a day. 7000 Americans die every day, 3 million per year.
If you look at the data from NYC, over 99% of those who were listed as Covid deaths were already ill, the last data I saw before they hid the details was over 50% had 3 or more comorbidities. Likely time was short for those folks anyways and they were Covid positive but Covid might not have caused their death.
https://github.com/nychealth/coronaviru ... itions.csv
It is very real and yes it should be taken seriously but we also need perspective on it as well. Flu worldwide kills anywhere from 300k to 700k a year worldwide. Malaria kills half a million or more. 1.3 million a year are killed on the roads. Various infectious diseases kill 17 million people a year worldwide. I don't see the world flipping out over any of that, destroying their economies over it, imposing totalitarian control over people and stripping people of freedom.
I think one of the red pills people need to take is that every day you wake up you will face risk. One day you will get old or sick and you will die. Facing your own mortality is not the easiest thing to do, but it must be done. It is quite possible any of us could get Covid or the Flu and expire. I take reasonable precautions, I know what the virus likes so I stay away from large groups of people, stay in ventilated places, stay in sunlight if possible, I wash my hands. On the flip side though I have to live my life. Enjoy every day because your time is finite.
Somehow people need to get past this government and media concocted hysteria and panic. SARS 2 is just a part of the human condition along with all the other things out there trying to kill us, so we need to move on and get back to normal. Victoria has been in some form of lockdown since July 9, it is really stopping the virus?