Just a quick thought: if college football stadiums filled with un-vaccinated people have not been proven to be super-spreader events, why not? What about inside sports venues where people don’t wear masks?
If they aren’t super-spreader events either, why not? Or indoor malls, shopping centers, and large stores that don’t coerce customers to wear masks inside – if they’re not super-spreader locations, why not?
Either a huge majority of the attendees at those sports venues, shopping centers, and stores were already vaccinated (probably not), or a huge majority had already had Covid or a variant and had recovered and now have natural immunity (probably not), or a huge number of them are currently infected but with extremely mild symptoms and aren’t aware that they’re suffering from Covid (this is a definite possibility).
Where’s “the science” here? If all of these people aren’t wearing masks and they’re not hospitalized and in the process of dying from Covid, why not?
Maybe Covid is really “just another flu”. More transmissible, and with worse symptoms, but extremely survivable by those in reasonably normal health. Maybe it’s the comorbidities that are behind a significant number of Covid deaths. Maybe there is something to be said for both “natural immunity” and “extreme susceptibility” as opposite ends of the health spectrum. Maybe all human bodies are not the same and we should stop treating them with one-size-fits-all therapies.
Maybe we should stop counting “cases” and instead count “deaths” and “permanent injury” from Covid. Maybe we should start listing comorbidities as the primary cause of death – because, in truth, it was the comorbidities that were the primary cause of death. But if we do that, we also need to look at “deaths” and “permanent injury” from the Covid “vaccines and list them as “possible side effects”.
We will never eliminate Covid from the planet. It will be “yet another dangerous virus” that people will contract. The overwhelming majority recover just as the overwhelming majority recover from antiviral-resistant pneumonia, another disease that causes death from inflammation in the lungs (or had we forgotten about that one?)
Let’s stop obsessing about Covid. Part of the “human condition” is that people get sick. We can’t avoid getting the “common cold” (some are caused by coronaviruses – look a the label on any disinfectant product).
We don’t make eggs illegal because some people die from salmonella. We don’t make shellfish illegal because some people can die from eating it. We don’t make alcohol or cigarettes illegal because they can cause cancer or other diseases.
It’s been almost 2 years since we first heard of Covid.
Let’s stop counting “cases” as if they were some useful medical measurement. They aren’t.
Let’s stop scaring people.
Let’s take off the masks, end the mandates, and allow people to get back to a normal life.
