Thank you for having the patience to argue with "common sense". China, with more than three times the US population has less than 5,000 recorded deaths, compared to more than 800,000 here. This is not to blame the American people, who have been fed lies, half-truths and anti-science backwardness, but rather those who are responsible. It is not "human nature" to destroy ourselves. It is the nature of a system that places profits over human lives. Whether it is this pandemic, the next one, climate change, or a nuclear war, as long as those interests determine public policy the prospects for humanity future are indeed grim.
Cancer isn't transmissible by respiration.
(.....cancer being mostly a thousand different non-transmissible diseases with a common mechanism of uncontrolled cell replication.)
Cancer isn't amenable to sensible programs of eradication with simple public health messages and actions....
....these messages and actions which have been undermined by ignoramuses and those that take advantage of them for profit and power.
“All I can say is that on this earth there are plagues and there are victims, and as far as possible one should refuse to be on the side of the plague” - Camus
Apologizing for the willful spreader of covid misinformation is "being on the side of the plague. "
If as a culture we had a spine and a brain we could have beaten covid with 1/10th of the death we have had.
instead we have....looks around
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