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Be interesting to get people's views on this to see who says what depending on their support for the lockdown.
The article pretty much matches my thoughts so I'm naturally in agreement with it. When you look at the stats for the vast majority of the population lockdown is unnecessary and bizarre, particularly when you look at the risks we all face every day from illness/disease etc. BUT it's clearly a very different matter for those with underlying health conditions and those over 70.
I'm also strongly in favour of the message that there's a lack of perspective on this illness, with it having been portrayed as deadly for all, which again isn't the case. Now if you're on my side of the fence you'd question why we've exaggerated the dangers and gone in for mass population control (with a dangled carrot of a miracle cure coming soon folks!) but I'm very aware my opinions are colouring my view of the situation.
IMO there's a natural and understandable tendency to take anything new that poses a risk and reminds us of our own mortality and back away. That's a hard wired evolutionary trait after all. It's also natural to worry about our loved ones, both related and of the friend variety. The trouble to me is that whilst natural you need to be able to look at the wider picture to get some understanding of whether the risks to you and yours are worse than the risks you accept without batting an eyelid and the way this pandemic has been handled and reported hasn't allowed that to happen. There's a lot of very intelligent people, both on this forum and in society in general who have presumably either decided that the risk is much higher than the evidence shows it is or who are just focussing on the virus with no attempt to look at it in context, and that confuses me. Again, I'm willing to accept my opinions mean I'm looking at this in a different way and whilst I obviously think my views are correct, I may be wrong!
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