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I also feel COVID is way less dangerous as portrayed by media and politicians. I actually not worry about COVID at all, will not get a vaccine and only wear a face mask for other people in places where face masks are required.
Then the second wave hit. Drone pictures of thousands and thousands of dead bodies abandoned in shallow graves (the majority religion cremates, but crematoriums could not cope with the rate of arrivals) on sandbars of rivers is ample testimony to how dangerous it is.
If it wasnt one would have seen such level of excess mortality and sand burials as routine.
The government of course wanted to cover it up. They arrested and jailed people who were seeking medical oxygen on social media. The public was being openly threatened that they will be slapped with antiterror laws should they do that (till the supreme court stepped in). The government removed the commemorative shrouds placed on this shallow graves so that the extent of these deaths could not be counted.
But what about the especially high CO2 level? It's actually not especially high. It's near the lowest it's ever been. Earth saw stuff like going from 3000 ppm to 4000. No tipping point, no climate catastrophe. We're much closer to a dangerous low point than a dangerous high point, since plant respiration fails around 150 ppm.