>And that's just the COVID deaths. From the harder lockdown cities there's anecdotal reports of a year's worth of suicide attempts in a week and other effects yet to be calculated...
From that...
To this...
>>When I hear arguments like that, I think of this story....
>>he page-thrower answered, smugly:
>>"Do you seen any elephants?"
>>People have died and more are dying.
>>Let's think about them and not about who was right and who was wrong.
Not sure of the connection from your story, but my intended point was that people can die of more than just COVID.... and what you call "right and wrong" can turn out to be a bigger killer than the virus. IMHO it's entirely moral and scientific to consider such possibilities, preferably without trying to shut down opposition.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
