Let's look at it for a few minutes.
The Black Plague killed off over 1/3 of the entire European population. That's one out of three people dying of it.
Now THAT'S a plague!
If they were to let Covid run free it would probably kill well under .05% of the population, if that.
Now there are any number of things you can do even without the Amazing Vaccine to avoid contracting it in the first place. I won't bother to list them here.
The Karens and Matts are panic stricken and I have heard of a few trying to sneak into the over 65 years old line only to be refused. A few have stood there in tears when they were refused.
What the clinics SHOULD have done is to make it clear that if you tried to buck the line you would be sent to the end of it and have to wait for six months before you were eligible...and enforce it. It would only take a couple of people finding themselves at the end of the line to stop that kind of thing because their moaning, wailing and gnashing of teeth would be epic.
What the people should do is look at the disease for what it is. It has an incredibly high survival rate. It's not the plague. Nobody is pushing a cart down the street shouting "Bring out your dead!" Corpses are not piling up in the streets.
The odds of surviving the disease for anyone under the age of 70 are over 99.5%. Over 70 the odds drop a but to about the 95% range. You also have to realize that most people over 70 have preexisting medical conditions to begin with.
I am not saying that Covid isn't a danger or a threat. Of course it is.
What I am saying is that there's an awful lot of over-reaction to it. This ain't 1350 and Covid is not the Black Plague.
Settle down, people!
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