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"It is in our collective interest to extinguish the virus."
I am not willing to accept this baseline assumption without more deliberation on the nature of the threat by covid and the costs to extinguish covid. A mandate to extinguish a virus without an equal discussion of the costs of doing so, plays right into authoritarian hands. As you…
"It is in our collective interest to extinguish the virus."
I am not willing to accept this baseline assumption without more deliberation on the nature of the threat by covid and the costs to extinguish covid. A mandate to extinguish a virus without an equal discussion of the costs of doing so, plays right into authoritarian hands. As you point out, "the elderly are at the most at risk from covid", and with regard to children that get covid (which is rare), only "0.2% of pediatric patients required mechanical ventilation". Mankind survived and even thrived for millions of years with much worse odds of survival from far more serious threats. From where I stand this virus looks more like a psychological and spiritual crisis than a medical one.
Well, if a young person has Myocarditis and/or pericarditis it doesn't "heal" or go away. They will have it their entire life. The heart has memory and will remember the trauma. It's problems and effects will surface in the future, not a good thing. It's also not psychological or spiritual, it's deadly.
And what about rates of suicide due to the governments horrific policies throughout the pandemic? It's way, way up. It would be bizarre to consider the small number of people who suffer from Myocarditis but ignore the people who commit suicide as a result of "lockdown" and other societal disruptions that are justified on the grounds that covid is a much bigger threat than it actually is.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/09/29/covid-19-linked-to-rising-suicide-rates-among-teens/
Are you saying that covid triggers untreatable Myocarditis while the vaccine triggers treatable Myocarditis. Below is what the CDC has to say about the Myocarditis caused by the mRNA vaccines. Is there some specific data set that you're reacting to with your remark?
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/myocarditis.html
What you did not take into account is that if you get sick, even if the virus doesn't kill you, it has still diminished your body's capacity for repair. That's my understanding anyway - that it has the capability to shave years off your lifespan. I really don't think we want this virus around forever.
You'll probably post a link to some doctor somewhere conjecturing. Whatever. You know what else reduces lifespan? Loneliness. Despair. Loss of job. Loss of a business. Loss of purpose. Lack of exercise. Drug addiction. Lock down's, drug addiction, and medical fascism are far, far greater threats to young people's health than covid, and its not even close.
I never said that I support draconian lockdowns. I think ivermectin and other drugs, together with better vaccines, can still do the job.
Even if re-purposed drugs like Ivermectin were recommended by the government and thus, more widely prescribed, I still object to agreeing to the mandate that we must extinguish the virus without much more deliberation about the actual threat posed by the virus and the likely costs. The hard fought and easily lost civil liberties are not worth sacrificing in order to guarantee everyone's safety from a respiratory virus. Be very wary of those who propose to wage wars on nebulous and evolving things like terrorism, poverty, or corona-viruses -- all things that have been a part of human life for millions of years. They can't win such wars and that's the whole point.
Yeah. In the final analysis, I think you are right.
Actually there is recent evidence in studies on the NIH website that shows that people that successfully recover from COIVD lungs heal completely. The study was done on patients that were having other lung biopsies and the patients agreed to allow their tissues to be examined and it showed no damage. That is great news because originally they did think there would be permanent damage, in some ways some scientist are looking for the truth.
I put a link to the study below: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003497521013072
This is great news for everyone!!
Well, that's good news at least. Still, healing is achieved by cells dividing and they can only that so many times until they reach their Hayflick limit. What remains to be seen is whether this is of particular importance with COVID or not. IDK.
Me either I am not educated in this area of science at all. To be honest I was so thankful to see some good news even the slightest amount can give us hope. The last over a year has been so stressful and depressing for so many people. All we can do is try to push forward. Have a good day!
Prove it!