Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

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(10-27-2020, 09:04 AM)PhilHos Wrote: According to the CDC, in 2017, the leading cause of death in the US was heart disease. It killed almost 650,000 Americans that year. Now, I know there are plenty of researchers looking to find cures and treatments and that there is some push to make behavioral changes to lower the risks but those are usually made at the individual level. Where was the same worry? The same concern?

I get it. COVID is a virus which is contagious and you get it from other people whereas heart disease is not. I am also not saying we shouldn't mask up/social distance/try to lower the amount of infected/deaths, but heart disease killed about 3 times more in 2017 alone than COVID has yet no national discussion about lowering the #1 killer in America (in 2017 anyways). 

Heart disease can't be spread from person to person, is this a real attempt at an equivalency? You literally use it, then dismiss it yourself for the obvious fallacy, then go back to using it.  You are "whatabout'ing" diseases and that is sad. While I feel bad for those that die from heart disease, that is something that accumulates from YEARS of lifestyle choices that often are a direct relation to one's own decisions. A communicable disease is not anything like heart disease.