"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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On 5/27/2020 8:17 PM, wrote:
Miscalculating Risk: Confusing Scary With Dangerous
The coronavirus kills, everyone knows it. But this isnt the first
deadly
virus the world has seen, so what happened? Why did we react the way
we
did? One answer is that this is the first social media pandemic. News
and
narratives travel in real-time right into our hands.
This spreads fear in a way we have never experienced. Drastic and
historically unprecedented lockdowns of the economy happened and
seemed to
be accepted with little question.
We think the world is confusing €œscary€� with €œdangerous.€� They are not
the
same thing. It seems many have accepted as fact that coronavirus is
one of
the scariest things the human race has ever dealt with. But is it the
most
dangerous? Or even close?


But most people are not very frightened of it. A Google news search
for
heart disease brings up around 100 million results, under
one-fifteenth the
results of the COVID-19 search.
Its critical to be able to distinguish between fear and danger. Brian S.
Wesbury, Chief Economist
Strider Elass, Senior Economist
RealClear Politics, May 22, 2020

He makes a couple of points

Not one useful one.

but he should have left out heart disease.

And the **** about fear.

Others have brought it up too, but heart disease is not contagious.

And you have to die of something, stupid.

You don't get it from others, you can't give it to others.

You can actually scare them into having one.

I have some control of it with lifestyle but no control over the heredity
portion.

I can have some control over getting or giving a virus. I take some
measure to do so.

And thats what a lockdown does.

I do agree some other treatments and elective surgery should have been
better managed.

But it wasnt clear how bad it would get at that stage.