Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Nov 21 2021 09:36pm)
As a man of science, it's pretty trivial for me to calculate the total damage Covid would have done if left unchecked, and it would have been economy-shattering. You don't get to say "we can ignore it because it only impacts the weak" and then define "weak" as 80% of the population. Oh, we can just let 80% of the population have serious symptoms all at the same time? Cool story. Have fun with your mass starvation, mass burials, and riots in the streets. Oh you grow your own food? Cool story. Everybody's gonna be descending on your garden in a few days because supply lines completely shut down for 3 months. Good luck repelling them all. Your superiority doesn't really mean anything when society collapses. Individuals can't really do anything meaningful for or to the world. You need others to build your computer, write your books, make your guns, give you your seeds, etc. etc. Everything you plant was built by society. Go back 500 years and your vegetables produce 1/100th the harvest because we hadn't engineered them to be so plentiful. That's why famines used to be common.
You're making a bunch of disconnected and contradictory points and then trying to claim superiority, when in reality it's pretty easy to put together the whole picture and realize society wide action was necessary, and your "superiority" is just a coping mechanism for being sub-par.
I think we should be able to sue the government for taking excessive time on document requests. Don't like it? Allocate more funding. The judiciary should be able to essentially fine an agency and congress for not allocating sufficient funds to carry out their own laws. We need a mechanism to make them enforce it. The post office was a great example of where we should have been able to sue the government for intentionally slowing down voting to benefit one political party.
I side with whoever is right. In this case the FDA is right, and whoever allocates funding and staffing is wrong and needs to allocate more.
What will it cost the system to keep these weak people afloat against every single virus thrown at them without their cooperation?
Will we close the country every new strong flu strains? Will we close the country every time their health are at risk? If so, is it really worth crushing the economy for the weak ? Why not do like most animals and discard the weak to not slow the pack instead?
Should we force them to obtain a specific weight / bodymass or be punished like the non vaxxed where they can't go out in most public places as a motivator to become healthy or at least force them to have 2 hours exercise session and not exceed 1.5k calories a day. If they do that, they can go out.
From there, we'd get the pop healthier thus costing less to the system.
As from funding to the fda. They already print billions (They being the elite/corporations/corrupt politcians for their own benefits, why not print a little more for the people this time? Or instead of using our taxes to drop bomb on civilians abroad, we could use a little % of that to fund the fda.
This post was edited by SunnyvaleTrailerPark on Nov 21 2021 07:45pm