After months of government, media and health officials trying to present Covid-19 as a disease that is equally serious for all members of society, we're finally getting some clarity. Early on in the pandemic, with news coming out of Italy that Covid-19 was overwhelmingly targetting the old and sick, young and healthy kids went and enjoyed March break and reading weeks the way others have for countless generations.
The novel and mostly benign coronavirus was dubbed by the younger set as"the boomer remover" because of the data presented from places like China and Italy. Now the CDC is confirming it with their recent publication showing just 6% of American fatalities are attributed to Covid-19 alone, the other 94% have comorbidities, an average of 2.6 other diseases and/or conditions.
Nobody wants to see people die, be it an elderly sick LTC resident or a young healthy person committing suicide because their school, sports and support networks were locked down. Sadly both are happening, emergency measures haven't stopped the virus from finding its way into nursing homes, and young people are killing themselves at rates above normal according to CDC director Robert Redfield.
It is time to put and end to these ineffective and counter productive emergency measures now.
If they were effective Canada would not be seeing the virus getting into nursing homes. Even if they were effective that still wouldn't justify throwing the vulnerable and marginalized members of our society under the bus, subjecting people to depression, substance abuse, child and spousal abuse, suicide and all the negative health outcomes that go come from removing vital life saving support networks and systems.
The worst part of a mistake is failing to recognize it, let's not compund our bad judgement.
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