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Post by fretslider on Apr 4, 2020 6:46:39 GMT -5
I'm at risk like anybody else. Instead of looking at the problem of the covid-19 virus scientifically and logically, we have gone down the emotional road. No other species has a healthcare system and so we believe we are above the natural world. And then reality bites - and hard.
The children of the last 30 to 40 years have never known a world of real fatal childhood diseases, hence the low birth rate. Vaccines and antibiotics have shielded them from the grim realities of nature.
The [original] scientific advice in the UK was for a strategy of herd immunity. In a normally distributed population some will be affected most and some will be affected least, with the vast majority in between.
It might seem callous and unfeeling, and it could be me too, but it is the logical course. Yet the politicians baulked at the idea and instead they decided to ruin everybody equally, or as equally as it is possible to do.
Who will still have a job? Who will have much money? A broke and unemployed nation won't be able to kick start anything at all.
And that seems to be the plan. De-industrialisation at a stroke.
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.” —Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and Dr. John Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, 1970
It's a long game.
The children of the last 30 to 40 years have never known a world of real fatal childhood diseases, hence the low birth rate. Vaccines and antibiotics have shielded them from the grim realities of nature.
The [original] scientific advice in the UK was for a strategy of herd immunity. In a normally distributed population some will be affected most and some will be affected least, with the vast majority in between.
It might seem callous and unfeeling, and it could be me too, but it is the logical course. Yet the politicians baulked at the idea and instead they decided to ruin everybody equally, or as equally as it is possible to do.
Who will still have a job? Who will have much money? A broke and unemployed nation won't be able to kick start anything at all.
And that seems to be the plan. De-industrialisation at a stroke.
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.” —Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and Dr. John Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, 1970
It's a long game.