Yep, people die every day. Heart disease is the worst offender.
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You'd be surprised how mostly symbolic things like the Presidency can make a real difference in people's attitudes and lives.
Heart disease isn't passed on to strangers. We are going to see lots of PTSD and guilt in the coming years.
Turns out that they actually do. This wasn't staged, but it was 'safer' for the penguins that often roam the streets due to the lockdown. https://www.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=penguins-in-the-city
I have seen pictures of penguins wandering all over certain towns in South Africa. Kind of nice to see nature take back over.
ooh.... so you're only saddened about death when it's passed onto strangers? Got it.
If that's your takeaway from my comment then I suspect you're suffering too. Take care of yourself.
I'll just leave this here (assuming Mayo Clinic is any kind of credible [spoiler alert: they are.]): https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/covid-19-vaccine-myths-debunked/
You're spot-on about Op Warp Speed pulling resources to the creation of these vaccines, but you're incorrect about them not going through normal testing procedures, as if 'fast tracking' = 'cutting corners'. It's a common myth. At any given time, resources needed to create new drugs are extremely limited, and prioritized. Now, imagine stopping virtually all other processes to focus resources on one major issue, because that's what happened here. Things can get done very efficaciously if there is enough backing. ?
What was a myth, that they were fast-tracked or that they cut corners?
Are you at all aware of how parochial, petty, and presumptuous this comment reveals you to be? Such a very small person.
Agreed, many people here are anti-intellectualism. It’s rampant in the USA and this forum.It's no secret that anti-intellectualism has run rampant here in the United States, but it's a shame to see so much of it here on macrumors
It has certainly gotten worse since the start of Trump's presidency. Not really surprising considering he treated expert opinion and advise like it was worthless and pretended himself to be an expert in every field. But the roots of the issue are definitely deeper than just one president.
What’s worse, people don’t think ahead, or critically. Like, how is 5+ trillion in debt going to be paid off? How is it Florida and other countries are doing fine, while countries and states who far over-reacted with shutdowns, actually had worse numbers?
Hamstringing businesses, putting millions out of work, causing depression and fear - to what end? It certainly didn’t save lives.
It’s sad that people don’t use their brain. They just repeat what the news tells them and take it as fact, rather than doing deep research. These people are anti-science and critical thinking.
That fast-tracking meant they cut corners with this vaccine.
Your point may still be valid but how is it that Florida is "doing fine"? If Florida was its own country it would be in the top 20 countries in per capita deaths and top 10 in cases per capita. Florida is middle of the pack in terms of US states but that is relative to the very poor showing as a country as a whole.
I hope you are not trying to compare Florida with Japan, Australia, Taiwan etc. Because Florida's per capita rates are several orders of magnitude greater than these countries.
I know there are a lot of reasons for these differences. But, I just can't fathom how anyone could hold up Florida as some model of success?
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Yeah, that's exactly what they tried to say in the 1950's
Letters to the Editor: Warp-speed vaccine manufacturing sickened 40,000 kids with polio in the 1950s
A reader who became sick with polio after being vaccinated in 1955 warns of the perils of rushing a COVID-19 vaccine.
Perhaps, but just wait until actual socialist policies from a democratic controlled government begin being forced on Americans that don't buy into that nonsense.
You'd be surprised how actual things like the upheaval of someone's rights and morality will make a real difference in people's attitudes and lives.
You give them too much credit. The mainstream media is so good at fear-mongering that most people will be willing to give up essential rights and "think" they are doing something good.
So do I, but I don't think 'hope' is going to stop the lemmings from going over the cliff.
Some of us believe our rights are more important than others’ lives.
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So you’re saying when there is a pandemic we should listen to economists and not doctors.
Year? People stopped caring after like 4 months. The road traffic is back. Don't tell me everyone is going somewhere safe.