Therefore, COVID isn’t very dangerous?
The statistics game continues. Looking at anything approaching a medical source, it is clear that COVID is a dangerous illness the spread of which is effectively halted by quarantine.
But someone somewhere has a mate on the internet or knows a guy who was really old and got coded as a COVID death, so scrub the medical sources.
That one word is a weasel word.
But NO, COVID is not very dangerous. It's mortality rate is dropping and was never all that high to begin with.
As we lacked the ability to test, we had no idea how widespread the disease was. As more data becomes available, it's pretty clear that, while deadlier than the flu (to older people), it has very little danger for otherwise healthy people.
Our country is overreacting. (As are most other countries, but even they recognize the folly of shutting down schools for a disease less dangerous to children than even a mild flu. New Zealand seems to be acting like this is the Andromeda strain, so at least one country is overreacting worse than the U.S. Yay.)
The overzealous authorities in the country are
causing more deaths with these shutdowns. Livelihoods are being destroyed and people are avoiding (or being denied) medical care that is leading to deaths from lack of care.
We should protect the vulnerable and then allow this disease to finish its normal course through the population. IF the hospitals start to get overwhelmed, we can address that, but pretty clearly any such danger has LONG since passed.
