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Originally Posted by Akinari
People, including healthcare professionals, who continue to peddle this false rhetoric that COVID-19 is nowhere near as serious as the flu, continuing to tell people not to panic because you're not going to die from COVID-19 (LoOk At ThE mOrTaLiTy RaTeS), BECAUSE THE WHO AND THE CDC SAID SO, really need to shut the fuck up.
Anyone with half a spine knows that the actions and decisions made by the WHO and obviously the CDC, are bound to politics through a fragile balance between several different factors.
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You're more likely to die from a car accident than to die from COVID-19, but go ahead, wear a bucket over your head and hide in your house for a year.
Healthcare professionals look at hard facts and statistics. Not emotion. That is the foundation of modern medicine. If we were to pander to uneducated masses, then we would be giving snake oils, tiger balms, aromatherapy or whatever hipsters and single mothers like to use today to treat killer diseases.
The hard facts are:
1. low mortality rates (even if you exclude chinese data, absolute rates are low)
2. mortality rates increase for the elderly and people with comorbid conditions (eg. heart conditions, diabetes etc) which is the same for all respiratory infections (so far no pediatric deaths, but likely a vulnerable group as well)
3. the CDC is staffed by medical professionals who have a duty to protect. Sure you can say some people may be pressured into certain statements politically, but do you really think all the doctors and allied health professionals who are working there would stay silent? If you can't trust the CDC and the WHO you might as well go to a naturopathic doctor for the rest of your life. Please don't vaccinate your children as well because it's all political.
If you disagree, you are welcome to post facts and prove me wrong.
Lastly, coronaviruses have always been around and the mortality rates are similar. You're never going to eliminate it just like how there's always a new flu every year. This particular strain is just more infectious than previous years. Let's say that this one hangs around distributes in a seasonal pattern like the flu. Are you going to hide for the rest of your life?
(Smallpox is the only viral disease eliminated by intervention in the history of man. Let that sink in for a second)