Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
John, I know you well enough to know that you're not part of the problem. BUT (wait for it) you may be close enough to the car that you can't see the highway. The death rate for people under 45 is essentially 0%. The death rate gets mildly significant when you're over 75, and significant when you're in a nursing home, where you go to die anyway. The IFR is in the 0.0n% rate across the country except for NYC, and we all know why this is. If the ambulance shows up from the nursing home with the old guy, do you ask where the pickup was? When you leave the ER for a more distant perspective shared by the res of us, this disease is essentially the seasonal flu, which kills people in a certain demographic. I know people who work on the "front lines" who have a different perspective that the rest of us, who are seeing the most bizarre transformation in our daily lives in the history of this country, and who have no idea why THIS YEAR is suddenly different from, for example, 2009 when lots of people died from the flu. The IFR is low, quite comparable to the flu, and the rest of us who just want to go back to work don't understand why this year has been decided to be The Year We Go Apeshit Over Maybe Getting Sick, since it's really not that different except for the government response. The rest of us see the wildly inflated death coding, the masks which function as merely badges of honor/intelligence/civic virtue, the exponential expansion of local and state government power in the complete absence of any measurable benefit to anyone except the state, and the fear this insanity has wrought, to the extent that families are scared to let each other into their homes. This is a dystopian-nightmare screenplay being lived out across the world, FOR NO APPARENT LOGICAL REASON. We are getting very tired of it, and it will be interesting to see how much more of it we are willing to put up with.