Subj : Re: COVID Good News
To   : Otto Reverse
From : GeekWisdom
Date : Mon Jan 17 2022 03:24:55

-=> Otto Reverse wrote to Dr. What <=-

 DW> But seeing that the recovery rate of COVID started at 99+%, and the
 DW> variants are much less lethal, why does anyone still care about COVID
 DW> anymore?

My question is what is the %age for any virus where we simply 'stop talking 
about it?'

I know that COVID and the FLU are not the same thing, but many people do die
of the flu every year, it does not hit the news, media. People just 'accept'
that so many people will die of the FLU.

Covid hits harder, and kills faster, people create vacines to help protect 
others, socieity takes these vacines.  Case numbers decrease, people still
get infected, and people still die.

Twenty years from now, people will still get COVID, and will still die
(hopefully in much smaller numbers!)..but what is the percentage of
'acceptable' deaths before it is no longer a newsworthy story?

For that matter, extend this question to any illness. Heart Attacks,
strokes, diabetes.  I wonder what kind of world it would be if the
governments held daily news coferences on the number of people who
died yesterday from heart attacks? Would it cause a major lash back
on 'anti-cholosterolers'. Arguing - don't let the government tell you
what to eat! It's your freedom?

To be fair, you can't spread a heart attack of course...hmmm or can you?

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