lol. Hospitals were overwhelmed and health care workers died in significant numbers in Italy, Spain, America, and other places. And average age of death in US is vastly lower than in Italy and other healthier nations, and majority are not in nursing homes. And no because someone has pre-existing conditions does not mean we should just say fuck you, we don’t care if you die.
Just because you have some weird agenda to minimize this, doesn’t mean you should make things up.
And the countries that shut things down, got it under control and are still having their citizens be responsible and practice some social distancing, mask-wearing, etc, do proper testing and contact tracing have kept this thing at a manageable level.
But no one knew how to deal with this at first, and the worry was that it was significantly higher death rate than it currently has shown to have, so I’m perfectly fine with countries that got hit hard early on overreacting. That’s the sensible decision until you understand the nature of COVID and how to both limit spread and treat it.
I’ve worked right through this, and a ton of industries have here, because the government of BC shutdown non-essential business initially and created good protocols and measures for reopening. I’m very happy with the initial shutdown and how my province dealt with it throughout the past few months. They have done a great job thus far.