Oh good grief, put it ALL into prospective
Let's do that - let's put it into some
perspective.
- In Brazil, a country where the healthcare system has collapsed under the strain of COVID-19, the fatality rate is about 2.5%.
- In New Zealand, where they practiced travel restrictions, social distancing and mask wearing from the first sign of danger, the fatality rate is 0.0005% - that's 26 out of the entire 4.9 million population.
So let's extrapolate each response to a global scale.
The percentage of fatalities in Brazil, on a global scale, would be about 190
million people. That would be like killing 57% of the population of the United States. That's what we could
conservatively expect if you had your way and everyone just ignored COVID-19.
Now, if the global population could have managed what New Zealand has accomplished, the fatality percentage would extrapolate to just 40,000.
Now 40,000 lives is no lark. That's a lot of lives touched by the pain of losing a friend or loved one. But it's 189,960,000 fewer than 190 million.
The only reason you can so callously dismiss the nearly 3 million dead (so far) is because most governments have responded proactively, by enacting measures to slow and limit the spread of COVID-19. If they hadn't, the death toll would be much higher.
And how many people have to die before you decide it's worth some inconvenience to you? How skinny and healthy do they need to be before you deem their lives worthy of you giving a ****?
