Do you have any data or is this idle fear mongering? We're living through a man made disaster and you say we aren't doing enough?
Look at the (higher quality) data from Germany and SK. Very low mortality. 99% or more do not need medical treatment. Yet the societal devastation is already immense and harming much more than 1%. It's uniquely bad in Italy. Not entirely clear why. But even there the vast majority of affected people are elderly and have other co morbidities. So let's put it in perspective when we're cancelling our children's future.
I agree with masks. That just makes sense. Martial law keeping folks inside? You're living in a fairy tale.
I don't think we should do nothing, even though the worst case scenario of doing nothing is less bad than what's already happening. But what we are doing is totally wrong headed, rather than "not enough". We need to focus on protecting vulnerable groups, not indiscriminately turn everyone into a victim.
> It's uniquely bad in Italy. Not entirely clear why.
Aging population that generally lives in multi-generational housing or at least in close proximity. The US, especially in blue states, is unique in how separated different generations are physically.
Also a hypothesis that seems plausible as a factor: Smoking. Italians have more of a history of smoking than any other affected area as of yet. Smoking could also explain why the mortality skews more to men over women.
Oh yea, smoking too. That would also explain what we observed in China. Almost everyone who smokes in China is a man because there is a stigma that the only women who smoke are prostitutes (or at least that was the case when I lived there over a decade ago). Something like 30% of China smokes, but almost all of those are men, making it over 50% of men smoking.
The problem in germany is that we don't have enough masks to give them to everyone. Right now we have to acquire enough so that our healthcare-system doesn't suffer. It's being discussed, but is seems that there's currently no way to make it work here.
Look at the (higher quality) data from Germany and SK. Very low mortality. 99% or more do not need medical treatment. Yet the societal devastation is already immense and harming much more than 1%. It's uniquely bad in Italy. Not entirely clear why. But even there the vast majority of affected people are elderly and have other co morbidities. So let's put it in perspective when we're cancelling our children's future.
I agree with masks. That just makes sense. Martial law keeping folks inside? You're living in a fairy tale.
I don't think we should do nothing, even though the worst case scenario of doing nothing is less bad than what's already happening. But what we are doing is totally wrong headed, rather than "not enough". We need to focus on protecting vulnerable groups, not indiscriminately turn everyone into a victim.