Who will die who might otherwise have not died if the Government and the people had behaved differently?
People who die from COVID-18 through lack of healthcare who otherwise would have survived? So far I understand that is zero. Anything to suggest that might change?
People who if they had been kept away from the virus for a further year may have been given an effective vaccine and escaped? Yeah right.
People who would have received more informed treatment if they had the virus at a later date? Well, I guess that's not zero, but I have no idea how many it may be.
People who have not sought treatment for another condition for fear of contamination. Again, I suspect not zero, but presumably we can help them the best by rushing the virus through the rest of the population asap.
Who else? Any other categories? Many more people? Who are all these deaths that could have been avoided? And how could that have been done? (and I mean avoided, not delayed).
What is this apocalypse that we're desperate to hide from? The death of 0.01% of the population, an unknown amount of whom would have died in a similar timescale anyway?
It is sad, and I am not trying to trivialise it. But I do think it's time for the schoolgirl tabloids to stop shrieking and the world to get some perspective.
Time we started learning how to live with it and stopped pretending we can hide from it. Live must go on.
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