10-09-2020, 09:55 AM
(10-09-2020, 09:02 AM)PeakBaggie Wrote:(10-08-2020, 02:56 PM)billybassett Wrote:(10-08-2020, 02:31 PM)PeakBaggie Wrote:(10-08-2020, 01:50 PM)billybassett Wrote:(10-08-2020, 01:02 PM)PeakBaggie Wrote: The truth is that you can torture stats until you reach the facts that best suit your agenda or viewpoint, this
is happening all over social media and beyond. It has almost become an obsession for some.
The real truth is that the virus spreads person to person and in the worst cases can and will kill, in other cases
it will hardly cause a sniffle. This call for herd immunity is really a call to let the virus rip, roll the dice and hope that
you, your loved ones and friends can weather the spread. It is a huge risk. Have we really got to the point where
we dont care about the most vunerable in our society, that pints down the pub are worth putting those on the medical
front line at risk along with our older family members?
What happened to the kindness and love of a few months ago?
It's not a roll of the dice. Do you roll the dice when you get in a car? It's less of a risk than doing that.
Billy - First all of all not everyone drives or wants to drive, but everyone has the need to take in Oxygen.
Of course you roll the dice everytime you drive off in a car, but you can mitigate your risk by any number
of measures, speed, awareness and careful driving and of course if you give up driving completly your
risk will be zero. Giving up breathing is not much of an option for the living.
So you think we should all go into our homes and breathe our own oxygen and to hell with the outcome?
eh ... I think comparing the risk of driving to that of a vrius is a tad bonkers
Fair enough that's your view.
The point being if you were to go back to normal life with Covid still around you're chances of death are higher because you cross roads on foot and get in a car. May well be cold hard actuarial data but it's directly comparable at that level.
You may well choose to lock yourself away at home - but be aware 5000-7000 people die of accidental death in their home in the UK each year - so maybe you're not safe.
But I'm not sure how your view of consigning everyone to their home is actually more beneficial to individuals and society in the long term. Perhaps you can elucidate.