@Evil_Bender @truthaddict @jeffcliff I don't like people dying from preventable reasons. Sometimes it's not preventable, but it's sad nonetheless. I knew some rather old people who died from pneumonia related to COVID. Those same people were at high risk for seasonal death from other colds inducing pneumonia. This just happened to be a really bad few years because of a new virus in the mix.

But if we're going to take things into a less callous but more realistic standpoint, a lot of deaths of despair happened because of COVID policy. A lot of people lost more of their life and decreased their total QOL because of COVID policy than would have happened if we'd treated it with less hypersensitivity. The approach of temporary lockdowns was the recommended pandemic solution for potentially deadly emerging pathogens. Unfortunately, if we ever get a Marburg or Ebola tier disease here, we're all going to die because of what we saw vs what we were told we saw.