the title says it all, right?
except it’s probably going to cost a lot more than ten trillion dollars.
when all is said and done, the people who would have died without quarantine will have died. the great social-distancing experiment will prove to be a giant failure. it already is. it’s ludicrous of policy makers to assume or hope that a quarantine would ever have worked. yet they keep banging that drum. “all you have to do is stay home…” really? just stay home? and what, starve?
anyway, the experiment failed. it’s time to realize that. optimism and political correctness can’t change the facts or reality. my dear millennials and gen z’ers, marvel and disney are works of fiction. you cannot stop a virus with hope and lies any more than you can build a house out of bubble gum and match sticks.
but hey — the upside is that more science is being done now than at any other point in history. the up-side is that there will most definitely be vaccines and antigens and rapid testing for all sorts of viruses. the downside is that the ultimate cost will be well over ten trillion dollars.
the problem is that vaccines sometimes have limited efficacy. in 2018, for instance, 80K american people “died” of the flu (illnesses related to or exacerbated by it). that’s staggering, considering we have vaccines for nearly 20 different varieties of flu viruses. what would that figure be without the vaccines? if the historical numbers are to be believed, hundreds of thousands or even millions.
so take your diapers off and grow up. it’s time to realize that facts are facts. your desire and your will are meaningless in a physical reality defined by biochemical processes that have shaped evolution of rna-based life over the last 3 billion years. god is not hiding in the numbers. you are a biological machine, and you follow the rules of governing biological machines unerringly.
sorry, kid. it was never “fair” for your parents, grand parents, great-grand parents, or any ancestors — or any one for that matter — and it will certainly never be “fair” for you. it may seem illogical, but just remember, logic is an abstract construct of the human imagination, just like “fairness.”