The West should accept covid-19 defeat and move on. There was a time where we could have beaten it with good testing, border closures and lockdowns. But we didn't. We should now cancel all government restrictions related to covid-19. News sites should stop reporting it.
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Hospitals should prioritize people by age and simply stop making a fuss about the excess deaths that will result. There will be a certain amount of death that results from this, but the cost we are paying in ruined lives for everyone is too high to justify it.
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The likely death toll from ending the "fuss" about covid-19 will be something like 0.25% of the population, with some fraction (maybe another 0.5%) permanently injured via long-covid. Most who die of covid-19 will be older and will have already got something out of life.
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In terms of life-years lost, locking up 100% of the population for 5% of their lives is worse than allowing 0.25% of the population to die. And that is the trade that we are stumbling into.
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If we don't surrender to
#COVID19, there is a danger that this situation will drag on into late 2021 or even 2022 without a clear end. It's not worth it. It was worth it in the initial spring period because the risk from the disease was still uncertain, and ...2 replies 4 retweets 70 likesShow this thread -
... there was a chance that the lockdowns etc could actually win against covid. In some places they actually did win! But not in the West (possible exception: New Zealand).
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The other reasonable option other than surrender is to mount an effective response. That means eradicating the disease, which means people need to be obedient and the government needs a large amount of control over our lives for a focused period of a few months.
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Side note is that the government has to actually prioritize eradicating the disease rather than using those controls to punish the hated enemies of the state religion. Unfortunately the state as currently constructed cannot and will not do this.
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