I am at a loss to see your point. A pandemic will cause an increase in death beyond those who are killed directly by the disease. This is not something that is unexpected. It’s why epidemiologists count deaths by subtracting all deaths during the pandemic from the number of deaths expected under normal circumstances.
But you’re focused entirely on the unfortunate people who have/will die because of the efforts to stem the pandemic, while ignoring those who would have died but will now live because of those same efforts. For example, the counts of deaths/injuries through things like job site accidents or traffic accidents dropped dramatically during lockdown.
As I said, I am at a loss to see your point. If you’re arguing that the cure is worse than the disease, you’re wrong. Dead wrong.
Only thing I can guess, is if we just opened it all up, while instead of 160K deaths. to date, we’d have 300K+, but then some people wouldn’t have committed suicide?
A whole bunch of people got COVID because of that, including Kimberly Guilfoyle, who decided to fly home after testing positive because she didn’t want to quarantine in SD.
And that’s the issue. I remember watching a documentary about Russia 20 or so years ago and being flabbergasted by the insane beliefs in the supernatural, etc. that the people had. This was the nation that gave us Tchaikovsky and some of the greatest mathematicians, biologists, and physicists ever, and these people were worshiping crystals and what not. I was stunned.
And now we find ourselves in a similar place. Depressing is too timid a word.
The lack of funding for education - particularly for minorities - is not an accident.
From Emmanuel Goldstein’s The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism:
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
“Stupefied by poverty” is a phrase that kicked me in the head the moment I first read it, and resonates still to this very day. We (myself most definitely included) deride “low information” voters, usually without considering the circumstances that drive their lack of knowledge. Some are, of course, just stupid (or more likely, just hateful), but so many voters in this country are “stupefied by poverty” because they lack the access and time to become educated about the issues of the day, or just educated full stop.
These people are preyed upon by politicians who pander to their ignorance while systematically ensuring that such ignorance is perpetuated.
“As a result of our being informed of nine cases of Covid-19 at North Paulding High School following the first week of in-person instruction, along with the possibility that number could increase if there are currently pending tests that prove positive, we have consulted with the Department of Public Health and are temporarily switching the instructional method to Digital Learning at NPHS,” the letter from Paulding County Schools Superintendent Brian Otott said.