Keep f*%king going

[DonH]

Let me be very clear - crystal

- I do not deny covid is real
- I do not deny that 200K have died
- I do not deny that many hospitals are seeing more people now than at any time since this started

In addition
- far fewer people are dying than when this started - likely due to better treatment
- those 70+ are greatest at risk and represent the great majority of deaths.
- those under 25 rarely have serious complications.
- the average person under 50 does very well. You can throw any anecdotal outliers you’d like but they remain outliers.

What I do deny or argue against

- masks, social distancing, lockdowns are doing little if anything to stop the spread
- we can’t change nature. Much of getting covid is the luck of the draw.
- beyond a vaccine, we are not going to stop this. It has been near 10 months. Its going to circulate regardless of what we try to do short of a vaccine. It’s denying reality to state otherwise.

People eat like crap, never exercise and smoke like a chimney yet never get heart disease or cancer while others eat like rabbits, exercise daily, are right at target weight and yet still die young. There are no guarantees in life. Yet we don't blame or ridicule them like we may a child who is blamed for bringing covid home.

At some point, and I think 10 months is more than enough, we have to admit we have very limited control over covid. Likely little or no more than we have over cancer, diabetes, asthma, flu, high blood pressure, A-fib, trauma, mental illness, addiction, or dozens of other illness and causes of death we’ve been trying to combat for generations. Yet we somehow want to treat this different and kid ourselves into believing if only we all wore masks, or stopped contact with others or basically stopped living - for a year or more!!! we’d stop covid. We have very little control over this very real disease - just like all of the others. That’s what I’m saying and with every passing day we confirm this a little bit more. I’m convinced years from now we will look back and ridicule how we thought we could eradicate a virus with a piece of cloth. Stopping 25,000 person events is one thing. Stopping 15 people from celebrating thanksgiving is another.

It’s beyond sad that people have to be afraid of admitting they have covid for fear of being blamed. It is even more sad that some are more afraid of a covid diagnosis than a cancer diagnosis and go through unnecessary trauma worrying. Look at how maybe possibly being positive is effecting your life and that of your daughter - and you don’t even have it. This is what we’ve allowed to happen or even helped cause to happen in the craziest year of my life - 2020. But then again sone think if we just banned guns no one would get shot, or just banned straws whales 1,000 miles away from said straws would not die, or we can control the temperature of the planet, wild fires and hurricanes - so perhaps none of the latest craziness should surprise me.