I
know that COVID is NOT the flu, but what are we expected to do? The 1918-19 flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million worldwide, with an estimated 675,000 people dying of it in the U.S.
per the CDC https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-res...emic-h1n1.html and yet the U.S. did not shut down to the degree we have shut down due to COVID.
And. remember 100 years ago, the population was much less, too, with the world population being less than 1.8 billion in 1918
https://ourworldindata.org/spanish-f...mic-in-history, compared to 7.8 billion now
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/, and the U.S. population was 103 million in 1918
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740912/, compared to about 330 million now.
Yes, it is very sad when anyone dies from a horrible disease and especially if they are young,
but I honestly don't know what anyone expects a POTUS to do. Even if COVID-19 is stopped temporarily, there is no guarantee it won't come back. Are we supposed to live the rest of our lives as if we expect death to occur because we do the normal things (like extended family and friends eating together in someone's home to celebrate a holiday or a special event) that people have been doing for centuries?
OF COURSE, people have the right to do whatever they feel is right for themselves, but I don't think they have the right to decide for someone else unless they are responsible for making laws (and even then, I think people have the right to
peaceably protest). And, of course, I am in favor of doing whatever can be done to lessen hospital overcrowding in "hot spots", where such overcrowding appears almost certain.
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