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Originally Posted by haertig
They may be about one month early in moving to big events. However, the days of big controlling government forcing people into lockdown are rapidly coming to an end.
Covid is bad (rapidly moving to "was bad"). The government made it worse by killing jobs, forcing small businesses to close, locking people away inside nursing homes to decline and die, etc. But we survived despite government actions, not because of them. Now we have the vaccine and very shortly everyone who wants to be vaccinated will have been given the chance. Once that occurs, there will be no more of this "control the population" stuff from government no matter how hard they try.
The recent large events in Texas were maybe a tad premature.
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Sheesh. A "tad premature"? With the last update on vaccination percentage showing that 25-29% of Texans have received at least one shot (April 7 and April 8 numbers), are you really trying to push the belief that only the vaccinated were present in those crowds? Pull the other one, it's got bells! Really!
As for comparing COVID-19 to the flu? In 2018-2019 flu season, there were 34,200 deaths from influenza. 2019-2020 has 22,104 deaths. For COVID-19 in 2020/21 for a similar 12 month period, the number of deaths was 555,231. Hmmm.... 16 years worth of flu deaths in a single year using the 2019-2020 numbers which were around average for a 20 year period.
In the same period, Canada with a population of 37.8 million has 23,204 COVID-19 deaths from 1.03 million infections. If the USA at 328.2 million population had the same infection and death rates per million population, the number of deaths would have been 202,595 from 8.99 million infections compared to the actual 30.66 million infections and 555,231 deaths.
BTW, Canada is not one of the top countries in controlling COVID-19, simply one that I am familiar with.
Forget it. I'm wasting my time. Thomas Paine was right.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. — Thomas Paine