LordofPain56 wrote:
The only thing I have noticed is that people around here feel oppressed, and some are living in fear of becoming infected by the chinese plague. This has led to depression. Suicide rates have increased.
Isn't that a contradiction? You said this virus is no big deal, so why should people live in fear of becoming infected?
LordofPain56 wrote:
It hasn't affecting a single thing I do, no matter where I am. No lockdowns for me, no masks ever, although I do stand apart from others as a courtesy to others in a grocery store. But I'd prefer to go back to pre-covid19 practices of cramming people together at the cashier so that we can ALL get the covid flu and gain herd immunity. Eventually, we all will anyway (unless vaccines preclude the need for it). So why don't we all get infected right now and get it over with. Will some people die??? Yes, but don't people die of ordinary flu and pneumonia? Yes, to the tune of 100-200K/year.
Wrong. CDC numbers for annual death from seasonal flu ranges from 45,000 to 65,000.
The problem with gaining herd immunity by natural infection vs. vaccination is every single infection increases the probability of mutation. If you get sick and recover, you may only have immunity to the variant you were initially infected with. The 10 people you infected can go on and infect 100 more, and so on. By the time the virus gets done replicating in the 100,000th person, it may become so different that you immunity will not protect you.
LordofPain56 wrote:
BTW, did they have all this lockdown and mask nonsense during the swine flu (H1N1 virus) ??? Nooooo.
The anxiety, depression and suicides are all unwarranted. We are supposed to be a nation of free peoples, but many have cowered down to the dictates of the tyrannical governors and their illegal emergency powers.
Don't let them win. Take YOUR life back now.
There were no lockdown during the H1N1 flu because it was not as serious an issue. In addition, I, and many other emergency/public health/medical workers I know, were vaccinated with the H1N1 flu very soon after the outbreak. There WERE vaccines available, and the transmission rate were lower. The incidence of asymptomatic transmission were also lower.
It is also extremely unfair to medical workers who have to deal with COVID-deniers like you. When you get sick, they have to risk exposure to take care of you. In 2020, almost 3,000 healthcare workers died of COVID in the US.
I have gotten the vaccine. Out of courtesy to others, I still wear a 4-layer fabric mask in public and maintain a distance of 6 feet (10 feet if there is room) from others, and refrain going to crowded places.