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Originally Posted by cgjackson222
One thing I've found a bit surprising during this thread is just how unrealistically demanding people are of the medical community.
People are looking at things in hindsight and acting like they were foregone conclusions.
We hadn't had a pandemic in 100 years. The spanish flu killed approximately 1 in 5 that it infected, which amounted to around 675,000 Americans, which was about .65% of the entire population at the time.
For many, the lesson learned was that more could and should have been done to stem the loss of life.
And yet, it seems many on this thread think we should have done next to nothing and let the chips fall as they may. Their reasoning seems to be that only a fraction of the nation's population has died from covid. Of course, at the beginning of the pandemic, there was no way to know how deadly the virus would be.
So the reaction, which to some was an overreaction, was really just a cautious approach. Remember, we didn't have a shot that could reduce the severity of the illness for many months. Remember, we had hospitals overflowing. Remember, we didn't (and still don't) know the side effects for those that survived Covid.
It is absolutely ridiculous to expect anyone (Fauci/the CDC) to know exactly what to do without changing guidance as the reality of the pandemic evolved. And evolved it has. We now have relatively few hospitalizations/deaths relative to the beginning of the pandemic (which has a lot to do with the shot). Yet people are complaining that the CDC has changed guidance? Doesn't make any sense.
The overall disrespect of the medical community on this thread has been strange. There may come a day when you need to rely on the medical community, and they will likely treat you without a second thought, even though you have disparaged them. |
I think you are disregarding people that disagreed with many of their policies and were blamed themselves for 'not following the science' and their viewpoints banned....now that they are right, you cant just go back and say, we didnt know....you should give credit to the people that gave unpopular views and were right...afterall if they were wrong, people would say they were killers and want their head.... it seems they did not need the benefit of hindsight..
also i agree, if corona killed 20% of everyone that got it..that a big difference, it would of been terrible...but you also forget the united states did have the benefit of seeing death rates and how things were handled in other countries before it got here..so we werent has blind as getting it first.....when some medications were offered,whether right or wrong many just said they wont work, even though they didnt have the benefit of hindsight either
i think what many people are not happy about is the process of all this all came down....to just say we didnt have the benefit of hindsight doesnt seem to imply there would be any fixes....the CDC saying they were wrong when their one job was to handle this exact type of matter can not be discounted
Also there are medical professionals out there that are angry how their viewpoints were not followed and they were right.... usually when there is an argument of benefit of hindsight thats when 100% or close to it went one way...not when there was a sizeable argument against those people that turned out to be right, who didnt need the benefit of hindsight...yes right and wrong can be argued...but if arguing benefit of hindsight i would assume you mean a wrong decison was made..
there were many that said we need more testing kits and we didnt have them when additional waves of covid, did the powers that be need the benefit of hindsight....
Just having good intent (save everybody from death) doesnt make you right no matter what you decide to do....