I'm in the 'things will be back to normal in a few months' camp, but I have been cursed with optimism my whole life. I might be wrong, but the fuck if I'd rather close down every world economy and stay home for a year rather than take a 1 in a 100 chance of dropping dead.

Would there really be one person left on the planet who smoked cigarettes if the thought of 8,000,000 people a year needlessly dying was just unthinkable? 500,000 people die from the regular old flu every year, yet life goes on and hardly anyone freaks out of thinks about it every day.

I'm not trying to minimize how bad COVID-19 is, because it's fucking horrible, but are people rationally as worried about it to the same level of statistics as other factors that can increase your mortality rate?

Let's say even 5 out of 100 die from catching COVID-19. By shutting down entire economies could mean no money for many families, and people buy food with money. 100% of people without food die, so I don't think it's as simple as 'holy shit, we have to do WHATEVER we can to stop Coronavirus!'

I have no doubt some of this will be taken out of context, I'm just pointing out that people are in a frenzy and thinking the most important thing in the entire universe right now is stopping the spread of Coronavirus at all costs, but we shouldn't neglect the importance of other factors of life as well.



Dr. Michael Morbius: How far are we allowed to go to fix something that’s broken?
Morbius’s Mentor: Until the remedy is worse than the disease.