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This is a good mindset for you to have when you can't practically change anything. Life is going on in many parts of the world though and it's fine. There are other preventable diseases that take many more lives every single year that no one is making a fuss about. This is about control, and control only. The excuses are running out.

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Take the US approach as an alternative... a 9/11 worth of deaths every 1.5 days? More deaths then both world wars and Vietnam combined?

If you're relatively young and healthy, it's easy to frame this pandemic as "no big deal", but many of us also believe that there's a fundamental element to civil society that requires compassion for the vulnerable.

If this was about compassion and caring for our fellow man there would be a lot more discussion about the personal responsibility of exercise, eating clean, not being obese, etc etc. The top killers are heart disease and diabetes. Also, doctors that are advocating for medicine that can cure the disease wouldn't be censored. Scientists that advocated against vaccinating into an active pandemic so as to not put selective pressure on mutations wouldn't be silenced. This is about control and money though; there is no fair play or goodwill by the media or captured government institutions.

Meanwhile, hospital healthcare systems are collapsing. But hey, why fuss?

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