Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

[GMDino]

(04-01-2021, 01:53 PM)Mickeypoo Wrote: But that is also subjective, because there is no way to know what would have happened with no mitigation.  When Texas ended the mask mandate people also said there would be doom and death, but just the opposite happened.  We can see the numbers from places that are still locked down vs open and the numbers are very similar or in some cases even better for the open state.

Why do you think I do not care about anyone else and where did I say it's just about the money.  It's about the big picture and long term outlook.

Listen, I tried to nicely and genuinely explain how I viewed Covid and the lockdowns, etc.  I am sorry if it was not a genius level thesis.  If all you got out of what I posted was what you wrote above, I don't know what to tell you.

Doesn't have to be genius level...it has to make sense.  And it makes perfect sense.  You don't believe the virus was bad, you think we killed the economy for nothing.  i.e. The economy was more important that any lives that were potentially saved.  It's not hard, I just read what you post.

So my comment remains true:  People out there, including you, care more about the economy than saving any lives.  Doesn't matter if it is 1 or 500,000.  That doesn't surprise me.

Our inability to care about each other because it might cost a buck or someone else might get a little bit ahead is well documented in this country and the history of the world.  That doesn't surprise me.

It will be years before we know what worked, what didn't...but we already know that lots of people would rather see other people die than see the economy slow down while we try to save lives.