[Damogran6]

Hindsight being 20/20 and all that. This is clearly something you feel strongly about. I don't like people dying and societally, don't mind doing things that help other people not die.

Success was quite the moving target back then and to be cranky that two weeks lead to two years drastically underestimates the difficulty of the problem. Paxlovid, Boosters, knowledge on how to treat AND THE FACT that the ones that were susceptible are DEAD... (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...)

Your take on it is tone deaf and lacking in empathy.

[umanwizard]

Everyone dies, no matter what you or anyone else does or doesn't do.

[Damogran6]

Yes, but. It’s the time in-between that people generally want to maximize…and if they’re the kind of person I want to hang out with, they want to help other people maximize their short time as well.

[umanwizard]

Maximizing the quality of one's time on earth is not only done by maximizing its duration. Nobody, including the people you want to hang out with, optimizes for 100% longevity without caring about any other variable.

[lupusreal]

Tone deaf and lacking empathy is a good way to describe people in their 70s who want society shut down, children locked out of schools even, because they're terrified of their own mortality.

[Damogran6]

You’re not up on pandemic math, are you?

There’s emergent behavior that came out of well known scientific behavior in trying to contain a global phenomenon that we didn’t fully understand when it hit.