COVID Overreaction Debate

its no longer covid doing this. its the general public who fail to understand the risks they are being told is their right to make.plagues dont kill people, people kill people.

Nobody is overreacting drinking or driving causes death through the year, while covid19 is like a DDOS to the health system. Expect to be neglected if you get caught by a huge outbreak, thus the fear.Not to mention if the outbreak escalated it will become Spanish-flu V2 then we are talking about 10 of millions people dying, and hundreds of thousands dying in US alone.COVID19 is probably the most disastrous disease in our lives, assuming most of us haven’t been through Spanish flu. It almos

Since there's already a pandemic, I'll assume when you're saying "pandemic" you mean more specifically "epidemic in the UK". Even then, there's some fallacy in your list.In the best case -- if action is taken and it contains the spread -- then there is no epidemic and it looks like overreaction. Even if it slows the spread allowing the health care system to keep up and keeps the fatality rate fairly low you'll get people claiming it wasn't as

This is a health issue not because of the disease being too deadly but by being a perfect combination of not being deadly enough and requiring intensive and long care for those affected by a severe case. This is not about you dying of COVID-19, it's about you dying because you got into an accident and didn't have enough ICU beds available to treat an injury you shouldn't die from. It's about avoiding crumbling to the pressure of the healthcare system which would trigger even

It is temporary hysteria. Remember 'swine flu'? The infection fatality rate ended up being like 10x better than what the media initially reported.

it's not even covid that actually does the most damage, it's the hysteria around it as long as it keeps living rent free in every ones head.

I think some if it is that it is an appealing contrarian take, and even as stark as things are, it is common to not have suffered much personal impact from infections (either direct consequences or severe illness/death of friends/relatives).I'm not terribly well connected socially so I don't take it as a universal, but the people I've heard about having it are a single friend of a friend and my doctor's husband (she volunteered the info during a routine appointme

Unpopular opinion: people could stop trying to speculate everyt-f-thing and amplifying the negative consequences of everything! Stop trying to "prepare" for stuff or, worse, to speculate as to take advantage of stuff happening!Just accept that there will be a temporary extra increase in mortality, and move one, carry on all life and economic activity as if nothing much happened, because it didn't! Promptly silence the panic mongers. "Live and let die", s

Makes you wonder how many people have actually died so far this way. Being told to stay home and not spread covid, meanwhile something else is actually terribly wrong.

They think it's "not real" because the scale of the reaction to it isn't justified by the data and people can see that. If you really know several people who died of covid19 your very unusual. The vast majority of people will know none.