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Comment by bilsbie | Hacker News Reader

This line of thinking has never made sense to me. We spend billions worldwide combatting diseases that mostly impact people over the median age of death and with other co-morbidities. Heart disease mostly kills old and obese people, but no one ever has a problem with tax dollars going to this. If we don't care about people with co-morbidities, doesn't it make sense to shut down heart institutes and cancer wards?

I believe coronavirus spending was well into the trillions over a short period of time. Not to mention the disruption of the lives of people not at risk. The response was disproportionate to the risk, and I don’t think questioning that response means one doesn’t “care about people with comorbidities.”

Any time people's thinking around Covid doesn't make sense to you, try to remember how often we were (and are) knowingly and intentionally lied to by trusted authorities. For example, "masks don't work", or, "GOF researchers are so confident this didn't leak from a lab that you're an anti-science (!) Trump fanatic if you suggest it".

Also, the idea that the elderly must be saved at all costs surely comes as surprising news to anyone paying attention to how healthcare works, or how nursing homes are managed. Many countries Corona death states consist of 30-50% purely nursing home deaths from extreme mismanagement, and decades of under-funding for nursing homes.

If you care about the elderly, then be outraged at those responsible for that major fuckup, not the people trying to get a sense of perspective amid oceans of deliberate misinformation and unjustified censorship.

We don't put everyone into lockdown to treat heart disease.

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