RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:TSX energy mover shakers Marty57 wrote: Given that the risks of fatality are so low, why did we do what we did. Look at the negative consequences of the actions our political and medical leadership have foisted on us (can't forget the hysterical media either): Canadian federal deficit of $380 billion in 2020, loss of how many small businesses across the country, children denied the opportunity to go to scholl and socialize normally, all the social isolation resulting from the lockdown measures... I could go on.
WIth the horrific consequences of our response to Covid, our leadership just doubles down on their bad decisions rather than admit the folly of their actions.
Amazing how everybody reacts to the "fear" messaging. And it was the only story being told day after day after day -- the numbers looked just awful because they were isolated and not given relative to other diseases such as Flu, TB, Pneumonia, Cancer (although cancer is not an airborne contagious spreader). The numbers for TB and Pneumonia on a world wide basis are huge but it is a "known" and there are therapeutics for them.
Covid is a mostly complete unknown with no real conclusive idea how it really spreads and no known therapeutic for it (even 16 months later) so it is/was really ripe to spread the "Fear" far and wide. Just keep pumping those numbers out on how many "new cases" and how many "died" on a daily basis for 16 months and it just overwelms people -- and they just keep doing it. It's that old story that figures don't lie but liars sure figure. The data is not given in relative terms, it is not structured to point out certain data points like age groups, prevailing co-morbidities, localities, etc.
to give a clearer picture of who and where the high risks are and how best to assess and address the situation. We were just stumbling around blind encased in fear.
You certainly get the feeling that "someone" figured out how to manipulate the masses.