RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Todd Hoare's lab at McMasterOk, so we have another SFB who wants to twist my statements and put the JT blinders on. You guys must be from Eastern Canada where an average work week is 35 hours or less.
I never compared the Flu virus to COVID. I simply asked why, with Flu empedemics of the early 70's and 90's, did we not shut down the economies? Legit question.
Next statement that you are not going to like, back in the early 70's and even in the early 90's you did not have the incedence of obesity that is off the charts now. It has been stated many times that by the healthcare professionals that many of those who have died as a result of COVID did so because they did a horrible job of looking after themselves resulting in immune systems were in such bad shape.
In other words, it would help immensely if people would start looking after themselves a whole lot better, no? Would you have 500k deaths in the US if there were not so many obese people? that has resulted in severely compromised immune systems? You can take that one step futher and determine the cost of obesity to the healthcare system, right?
Why were the enonomies not shut down when the Spanish Flu took hold and killed so many people? I will tell you why, the gov't was not as liberal then as it is now to keep dolling out money for people to sit on their obeseasses. People had get up and go to a job if they wanted to eat and earn a living, not like today when so many in the US and Canada can sit at home on unemployment and in many cases sitting at home making more money than working. Tell that to those who were trying to make it through the Spanish Flu pandemic.
The bottom line is that there are a boat load of things people can do to ensure that their immune system is working at a high level to prevent the contraction or significantly lessen the impact.
So tell me SFB, why not have people get off their obeseasses and start looking after themselves so that they can fend off these things. That way, your neighbor who lost his or her job due to being locked down can make their own choices while watching you sit at home doing jack and collecting your UI cheque.