10-29-2020, 12:13 PM
(10-29-2020, 11:06 AM)Au165 Wrote: So if everyone in the towers on 9/11 was elderly it would have somehow made that not a big deal? I am confused as to why the age of 220k people who have died matters. If a terrorist blows up a senior center does it make it less of a big deal because they were elderly? There seems to be this weird mental gymnastics going on that because it disproportionately kills the elderly that it somehow makes it not as big a deal.
A lot of people refer to those elderly as the "greatest generation" and want to honor their lives and their sacrifices they have made, but when asked to make a sacrifice to protect their lives we can't be inconvenienced to do so. We would never have been able to make it through WW2 today because the country as a whole is not willing to make sacrifices for the greater good, or even show basic empathy. I am a person who believes hyper-nationalism in the form of pledges and anthems and worshipping a flag are counterproductive to the point, but the one time in my generation people could actually show their national pride and do something it has quickly been seen it was all an act.
The point is that Covid is not killing everyone proportionally or even in huge numbers that should incite panic, lockdowns, prognostications of "dark winters" and just general doom and gloom and a crappy outlook for the future.
We know how to mitigate the risk and mitigate the risk to the elderly. Covid is being blown up into something far more scary than it actually is. It is not killing millions of Americans from young to old.
And people like Gavin Newsom trying to tell people how they can or cannot celebrate Thanksgiving is utter insanity and complete BS.
