An entire generation of 80 and 90-year-olds have died senselessly?! You’re a gas man. If only they had locked down sooner, old Mrs. Bianchi, despite her underlying medical conditions and her 99 years, could have knocked about for another 20 years.
I see lads at home on Strava going for 2 runs a day and a cycle, how is that a lockdown? aswell as going to shop 3 times a day, there is minor infringement of civil liberties in Ireland
Well he should answer for himself, but I believe he’s questioning the numbers that people have taken for granted as if they are gospel, like potentially 500k dead in the UK and 2 -3 million dead in the US.
He’s questioning a response that may well result in a global depression that could actually cost millions or tens of millions of lives, in response to a disease that may not be as serious as we are led to believe. Yes, it’s killing older people, but is it killing older people at a rate that’s more than the normal rate of age related mortality?
There are all kinds of moral issues at play here, questioning them does not make one a mass murderer.
Why didnt he just say that then and not encode in hate speech. I’m amazed you were able to decipher all that from “we need to let all the old people die”
Is it acceptable to you that Ireland allows 300-1,000 deaths from the flu every year, when if we were to lockdown from October to March, at least half of that number could be potentially saved?
Estimated UK deaths in a do nothing situation were around 240k. Estimated UK deaths in a lockdown situation were around 40k.
Corresponding US figures were 2.2 million and 100-240k balllpark.
And that’s only in two countries.
People who can’t debate can talk about “hysteria” all they want.
Bottom line is that by doing what the OP here wants, you’d be sacrificing millions of lives.
That’s a holocaust in any rational person’s language. A deliberate decision to sacrifice millions of lives which could otherwise be saved is a holocaust.
Sometimes moral issues are extremely clear. This is one of those occasions.