You’ve got some fairly good points but you’ve missed some things too.
Everybody likes to arm chair quarterback. Things have worked out devastatingly for us and also very good for us. We got lucky. And we’ve been stupid. In reality, prudence in the face of an emerging pandemic is the only responsible course of action. We got lucky that we got better treating it relatively quickly. It could have gone the other way.
We have no idea what the long term effects of this may be and won’t for some time so it’s a little premature to pretend like it’s all a done deal now. Fact is, due to the clotting, autoimmune, and neurological issues, we don’t know how many 30 somethings are gonna drop in the coming months to embolisms and strokes. There already seems to be an increasing number of deaths in that age range for no obvious reason. They’re not making the death counts for COVID-19 because the morgues are overrun and there are still not enough tests.
Overwhelm your infrastructure and deplete your resources, and everyone will be impacted. Not everyone who dies from this pandemic before it ends will necessarily die from Covid-19. And that’s not counting the devastation that a full panic will cause, or food riots.
Even countries that are doing well right now may not be able to sustain restrictions longer term. That’s all hinging on a vaccine coming relatively quickly. Hopefully that will happen, but there are no guarantees.
We also can’t trust the data as it’s coming piecemeal and has since been high jacked by Uncle Sam. I trust the nurses and doctors in the trenches. They’ve no reason to lie or misrepresent. I cannot ignore the fact that the are obviously shellshocked. So many of them. Too many saying the same thing. That means more than any graph compiled from incomplete data, manipulates to a viewpoint, any pundit Hawking terror or derision, or the Orange Cheerleading Baffoon glitter bombing the nation. Clearly, he’s snorted too much of his own aspirational pixie dust. It’s like magic, you know.
Estimated deaths from influenza each year is less than 62k per year. We’ve lost 140k in 6 months. You’re way off on that one.
