>>11461469I have seen many people downplaying it and I believe significantly more could have been done to actually contain it. This has officially cost almost 5,000 people their lives and is on track to kill many more. *These loses were completely avoidable.* My honest feeling is that of pity for the victims, concern for prospective victims, and frustration at the policy makers and complacent plebs that have facilitated their deaths. It is a miserable way to die: pharyngitis, severe hypoxia from full-lung pneumonia, and high fever leading to sepsis and multiple organ failure, all over the course of several weeks before the body finally yields. My gran is 80 years old and has many comorbidities. She simply can't afford to catch this. I am worried for her. I have been deeply frustrated by the suboptimal (to put it lightly) policy responses to this outbreak, and the complete negligence of the risk it poses. "Business as usual" has been the official line for the last ~two months; politicians are more concerned about how preparedness will effect market speculators' returns than they are about the wellbeing of others. Their complacency has been encouraged by conformists and denialists who, comforted by their own ignorance and apathy, have dismissed every legitimate concern as hysterical fear-mongering.
>get super mad if you suggest it's not gonna wipe out mankindSure, keep shitting on the strawman of doomsday memes and media hysterics. The fact is, this should have been taken seriously from day one. Indifference to it has and will continue to cost thousands of people their lives. And at the end of all of it, people will comfort themselves with the fact that the victims were predominantly old in any case. Disgustingly, this is the consensus opinion. We really do live in a clown world.
