RE: The Risks of Believing False Medical Information!

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Wouldnt it be best for young people to go out an get it and become immune?

The millenial protestors and, bar-frequenters can be heroes for getting the infection, braving the outdoors and staying away from granny for a month.

With the death rate for those under 45 non-existant, maybe this thing isn't so dangerous anymore?

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Great to engage with you in the Man Cave. Forgive me if I'm a bit cantankerous, after all I have watched everyone I know and love emprisoned and terrified over the last several months over quite dubious analysis of the actual data.



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Forgive me if I'm a bit cantankerous

Not at all mate! It's all in good intention :)

Wouldnt it be best for young people to go out an get it and become immune

I can not vouch for that because young people I personally know has died of Covid, quite a few of them actually. If it was something I heard from someone, I might have been a bit indifferent, but these are people I know that I've lost, friends, teachers and such. So while logically chances of younger people dying is less, I can not advice someone to go out and get infected because I also know young people who have died. Makes sense?

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I understand life is risky, I have some very good friends who died young in a motorcycle traffic accident its really sad.

Do you really think Covid is riskier than driving? Or love making? How about intravenous drug use? Is going to a bar during Covid riskier than having an elective surgury, such as an abortion? (or knee replacement?). One of my best friends almost died of MERSA, an antibiotic resistant form of stapholococcus bacteria after having an elective surgury in a major hospital in the US. Very dangerous.

I suppose we are just around to risk analysis. I suppose thats for each to decide. But if I was handing out money, I would give the stimulus money to people that went outside and took the risk (and also 'risked' becoming immune), not to the ones who decide to stay inside.

Otherwise a plan of 'never reopening' seems to be on the table. Poverty seems way more dangerous than Covid to us.

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I can not deny what you're saying. And it's pretty obvious that we'll have to learn to live with the covid. We can't really have everything shut forever.

But I don’t see why we shouldn’t try to prevent something just because it is safer than driving or safer than getting a surgery.

It's not about judging which is worse, It's about doing what we can to prevent what we can. We can't really compare the dangers of driving to the dangers of covid now, can we! But that's hardly the point. The point is, ideally, we should do all we can from where we stand to prevent both.

Same goes for post surgical infections. We do all we can to minimise them, but do they still happen? Of course. Does that mean we should stop taking antiseptic precaution altogether? No.

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Great discussion, I have made some points in my recent post.

As long as we can talk openly and honestly about appropriate risk mitigation, I think we are on the right track. We set speed limits to driving, not outlaw it. Condoms are recommended for those who engage in certain types of risks. Antiseptic treatments I think are an important part of pre-surgery procedure, though we could have a really good conversation about how preventionary treatments is leading to antibiotic resistant strains of certain diseases.

A good place to start, in my opinion, would be to admit that risks are not 'one size fits all', and thus invite additional levels of analysis over and above: 'There is a risk, so stay inside until its passed no matter your current conditions'.

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though we could have a really good conversation about how preventionary treatments is leading to antibiotic resistant strains of certain diseases

Maybe someday we will hehe ;)

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