at this point the whole covid-19 thing is a bunch of crap. people are getting it but my understanding is about 4 out of 10,000 people die who actually get the virus. this is somewhat similar to what happens from the normal flu. now we do need to watch and be aware that these things can go in different directions. but at this point we should be wearing masks and everybody should go back to work and sort of do their normal work activities. it's just not that big of a deal. I mean if everybody on the planet ends up with the thing eventually some people are going to die but guess what? everybody is going to die.
which brings me to my next rant. the healthcare systems. healthcare systems are not God. there are approximately 350 million people in America. the healthcare system was never intended to babysit all 350 million people at one time. what we do need is a reasonable plan of action if all three hundred and fifty million people should get sick and say 100 million of them died over a several week period. we would be able to dispose of the bodies and help people to die in some sort of reasonable civilized way. pretty much the same thing we did for the Spanish flu. millions of people died we laid out hundreds of thousands of cots and let people lie quietly and die. in the end God kills people and God keeps people alive. it's really not our job to play God. now of course I'm healthy and my family has a long history of pretty good health and reasonably long life so it's easy for me to have this attitude. then again I could be dead tomorrow.
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