If we remove the nursing home deaths, we are at worse-case flu season numbers. No one is saying COVID is no biggie. We're saying the cure is much worse than the disease. By just focusing on COVID deaths and COVID prevention, without taking equal ownership for death and destruction caused by the lock down reaction to COVID, is illogical and irresponsible. WHY ARE COVID DEATH MORE IMPORTANT TO PREVENT THAN DEATHS CAUSED BY THE COVID RESPONSE? Please help me understand this. Gov. Cuomo and the Northeast Governors decided freeing up hospital beds for projected COVID patients warranted sending COVID seniors back into Nursing Homes to infect other Seniors. Tens of Thousands of deaths were preventable if this was not the policy. It was wrong and drove up COVID deaths unnecessarily.
The term used repeatedly in the first month to justify every overreach of our response to COVID was: "out of an abundance of caution, we've decided to ......". Caution relating to what? Preventing COVID infection, at all costs. So important and so sure of our selves, we contemplated the worst-case scenario and acted based on preventing that, while never measuring, projecting, modeling the harm of doing things based on the "abundance of caution".
Somebody used the term "Fear Porn". That's when you scream only the stats that promote fear of COVID, and ignore the stats on the trade-offs and the consequences, or god-forbid the positive track record of the Open Early states.
I've had it with being lectured about being mindful not to KILL the innocent, responsible, mask-wearer at Kroger as I pass him in the frozen food section mask less. Wearing a mask isn't about keeping me safe, it's about keeping others safe. I think that angle is manipulative and disingenuous. There is no scientific study to back the mask theory. I want to see the peer-reviewed study results with groups of people wearing and not wearing masks, and the infection rate for COVID. It does not exist. And if it's so scientifically proven and obvious, why were we told NOT TO WEAR MASKS for the first 30 days of this thing? I've brought this up several times but never saw a response. And don't do the "we're constantly learning and the circumstances changes in 30 days based on new data". There was no new study done in 30 days.
Have you seen the guidelines for school kids when they go back. ALL KIDS MUST WEAR MASKS!!! What a spit-show. 2nd graders wearing masks. They'll be snapping them, throwing them, sneezing into them, wearing them on their heads, and totally distracting them from learning. But that's ok, cuz it's not about learning. It's about keeping each other safe. It's all about letting the data and the science guide our decisions. Like the data that puts the mortality rate of children at a near-non-existent level, yet we're going to mask them all anyway out of an abundance of caution. I know, I'm a rube. I'm too stupid to understand that our precious cherubs are really COVID Germ Carrying Killers. Little Johnny will catch it from little Sally, and even though Johnny and Sally may have no symptoms, little Johnny is gonna come home and infect and kill Gramps so, hence, mask 'em all. There is no end to the hypothetical killing fields we'll create if we're allowed to mingle with each other. Where were the masks when influenza was marching through classrooms (because that one actually hits kids). I know, Gramps has a vaccine for that one, except the vaccine doesn't have a great track record for Seniors which is why many don't take the vaccine.
I honor people's request of they don't want to be near me without a mask. I don't get up in people's face out of courtesy. But I'm not seeing much courtesy from the Masked Saints as they handle their germ-ridden masks in my space or give one crap that my wife's mammogram is now 3 months late and counting because of the stupidity of restricting medical procedures. Why? Wait, you know the phrase ...... "out of an abundance of caution".
(Or do the ABs just not linger long enough to know?)
