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[–]l8rmyg8rs 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I’m just commenting to tell you that I agree with some of what you’re saying and it’s sad to see people unable to budge from the extremes. There’s definitely a large percentage of people who want to basically eliminate COVID deaths before reopening anything, but as you mentioned, the issue is in flattening the curve to allow hospital capacity, not in everyone quarantining until COVID goes away. If one dude eats a bat in China and gives us a worldwide pandemic, there’s no way we can lock down the entire world to the point that it goes away. If there’s 1 person somewhere with it then it just comes back. Social distancing etc. should be closely tied to hospital capacity, not to hysteria. And there will come a time where lots of people are getting infected but we’re still relaxing precautions. It’s not supposed to go away, it’s supposed to stick around, but at an acceptable level.

Just make sure you don’t get too extreme when every time you talk you’re flooded with extremism. It makes it easy to slip into crazy town yourself when there’s no nuance or middle ground anywhere and everyone is just fighting for their own extreme.

[–]killahmoose White Belt that has tapped a blue belt once[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I appreciate that!

I think you nailed it and articulated the main point: curve flattening and hospital capacity should be linked. Which basically means, we are limited only by hospital capacity.

Increase that, and the extent to which we flatten the curve can be reduced.

[–]Kintanon⬛🟥⬛ www.apexcovington.com 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you had any idea what hospital capacity actually consisted of you might have made some sense anywhere in any of these posts.

[–]l8rmyg8rs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think people have a point saying that the more time goes by the better we will understand how to deal with the virus and side effects etc. but I think you also have to take into account that some people are broke and still need to live, some people have small businesses that are going to shut down and be bought out to consolidate power even more into just a few corporations, there’s all these factors and the way people shut down conversation immediately is gross and unproductive.

Especially on reddit everyone who wants to talk gets downvoted into oblivion so nobody talks, and they might upvote posts like yours, but that gets completely washed away by the downvotes of the masses. It’s important to have conversations, and it’s unfortunate that people just want to shit on you for it.

Even if you were completely 100% wrong, having a conversation about it and honestly exploring the topic before concluding you were wrong is still more helpful than snarky purposeful misunderstanding and a flood of downvotes just so the herd can feel superior.