Best Posts in Thread: It is now NOT your fathers Covid... Mask up !!

And the political rallies, the people who for one reason or another absolutely refuse to take proper precautions to limit infections and those who for one reason or another spread the mis-information about cures and that its all a hoax You somehow forgot those.

 

"Yes, a percentage of young healthy individuals will become sick, but what percentage is that?"

It's high time to stop playing a stupid numbers (or percentages) game. This pandemic is all about peoples' health and nothing else, unless you are willing to put a pricetag one some individuals' life. 'Only worth X US dollars, so not worthy of treatment' as a triage parameter. Everybody (no exceptions!!) must wear a facemask when outside the house, not only to prevent him/her of becoming infected, but even more to prevent infecting others if the person involved happens to be asymptomatic or does not suffer any effects. Keep a safe distance from one another, just in case. All logical things that anyone with an IQ higher than that of an amoebae can understand. And yes, you may interpret it as an infringement on your civil rights, but the common good far exceeds the rights of any individual in my view. If local authorities would have the guts (like for instance in Belgium) and fine people that do not comply, even better. Communist? BS! Totalitarian? BS! For the younger ones there are even more worrying issues at play: This morning a cardiologist in the US was interviewed and he stated his amazement about the fact that although younger people did not require ICU treatment or succumbed, they did show significant after effects when recovered from the virus: Shortness of breath, affected liver, kidney, stomach, and other organs and clotting of the blood causing strokes and heart attacks. No, I don't have statistics to support this and I will not even search for such info. When interested, Google away. All in all, Governments should be as strict as possible when trying to control this outbreak and stop pussyfooting around. Of course the economy is important, but dollars, euro's, yen and whatever should not be the driving factor in the decision-making process. Public heath comes first at all cost.