There's the detail here about how young people always underestimate how much they will value their life when old. When people are young they say they'd rather be dead than live to 90, but 89 year old people seldom want to die. That to say, it's fair to question your ability to speak now for your elderly future self.
You forgot to add, "... if, in complete contrast to the Covid mRNA vaccines, the vaccine(s) for this future disease are adequately tested over a period of several years, as was always the standard before Covid."
While I applaud the GBD for taking a stand against COVID tyranny, the merits of "focused protection" are overstated. The rational basis for not locking down and not masking up is that life is worth living everyday and this applies to everyone, young and old.
The main thrust for minimizing pandemic harms should have been treatments and therapies. Put everything on the table including the forbidden Ivermectin and HCQ. Most importantly, the truth of COVID survivability should have been impressed on the public.
Alas, it is well documented why inexpensive treatments were forbidden and effective medical protocols ignored and why FEAR was amplified - calm resolution threatened the for-profit vaccine solution. The inescapable explanation for COVID tyranny is the powers that be demanded lockdown with jabs as the exit from lockdown. This is the evil we were up against.
This is brilliant, and in retrospect I'm shocked nobody else seems to have thought of it before.
To those who might think "what if I change my mind?" I reply that you can always change your will as long as you're of sound mind: precisely the point of one is to make it so that there's a reasoned directive in case I can no longer reason.
You should probably specify that this doesn't apply to normal, acute illness. If your grandkids have a nasty tummy bug and you can easily reschedule, then you should do so. Outdoor activities can often substitute for indoor ones if everyone has a runny nose, which is about six months out of the year.
The one exception being that we gave up going to indoor restaurants or other not particularly important indoor activities until my parents got vaccinated since they lived with us. This wasn't a big sacrifice. Once during the winter before the vaccine when we had cabin fever I paid to rent out an indoor playground so they could run around.
We did send them to daycare partway through the pandemic when it seemed like they needed the socialization and my parents needed a break. My Dad said he didn't care if it killed him.
I don't really understand the opposite mindset. My wife's family is still trying to stay isolated TODAY. My best man won't go anywhere in public. My friend from college wore an N95 alone in the car for hours driving to see us.
I assume it's because they vote Democrat. I wonder if I ever knew these people. They were not at all like this before the pandemic.
The 100. I had never heard of it before today. Opposed to a Nietzschean view where we revisit this life in an eternal return, an infinite universe is one in which we will surely all meet, once, and then again and again. So remember make your best first impression!
If you're trying to maximize _quality_ of life, why go on a crash diet? If you had a weight that substantially increased your risk, what are the odds you'd get to a lower risk level fast enough to be worth the discomfort?
This presumes that the next pandemic primarliy affects the elderly. The 1918 pandemic influenza pandemic produced extreme mortality rates among your adults.
I really like this. Wish more people would say things with this combination of emotion and reason.
There's the detail here about how young people always underestimate how much they will value their life when old. When people are young they say they'd rather be dead than live to 90, but 89 year old people seldom want to die. That to say, it's fair to question your ability to speak now for your elderly future self.
"Obviously try to vaccinate me ASAP"
You forgot to add, "... if, in complete contrast to the Covid mRNA vaccines, the vaccine(s) for this future disease are adequately tested over a period of several years, as was always the standard before Covid."
There are several ways to oppose the current pernicious hegemonies of our time. You always do it in the most endearing manner.
While I applaud the GBD for taking a stand against COVID tyranny, the merits of "focused protection" are overstated. The rational basis for not locking down and not masking up is that life is worth living everyday and this applies to everyone, young and old.
The main thrust for minimizing pandemic harms should have been treatments and therapies. Put everything on the table including the forbidden Ivermectin and HCQ. Most importantly, the truth of COVID survivability should have been impressed on the public.
Alas, it is well documented why inexpensive treatments were forbidden and effective medical protocols ignored and why FEAR was amplified - calm resolution threatened the for-profit vaccine solution. The inescapable explanation for COVID tyranny is the powers that be demanded lockdown with jabs as the exit from lockdown. This is the evil we were up against.
Steward Brand did something similar back in April 2020
https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1249054846033883142?s=20&t=a1Bl5za4LE3Xv6q6DrzC5g
This is brilliant, and in retrospect I'm shocked nobody else seems to have thought of it before.
To those who might think "what if I change my mind?" I reply that you can always change your will as long as you're of sound mind: precisely the point of one is to make it so that there's a reasoned directive in case I can no longer reason.
I wholeheartedly agree with your objective. Your equation is amusing.
You should probably specify that this doesn't apply to normal, acute illness. If your grandkids have a nasty tummy bug and you can easily reschedule, then you should do so. Outdoor activities can often substitute for indoor ones if everyone has a runny nose, which is about six months out of the year.
This is basically how we lived.
The one exception being that we gave up going to indoor restaurants or other not particularly important indoor activities until my parents got vaccinated since they lived with us. This wasn't a big sacrifice. Once during the winter before the vaccine when we had cabin fever I paid to rent out an indoor playground so they could run around.
We did send them to daycare partway through the pandemic when it seemed like they needed the socialization and my parents needed a break. My Dad said he didn't care if it killed him.
I don't really understand the opposite mindset. My wife's family is still trying to stay isolated TODAY. My best man won't go anywhere in public. My friend from college wore an N95 alone in the car for hours driving to see us.
I assume it's because they vote Democrat. I wonder if I ever knew these people. They were not at all like this before the pandemic.
Extremely rational Bryan. Not that I expect less from you of course.
It would be easier to take this seriously if you didn't say you refuse to be isolated for even a day.
+1
The 100. I had never heard of it before today. Opposed to a Nietzschean view where we revisit this life in an eternal return, an infinite universe is one in which we will surely all meet, once, and then again and again. So remember make your best first impression!
If you're trying to maximize _quality_ of life, why go on a crash diet? If you had a weight that substantially increased your risk, what are the odds you'd get to a lower risk level fast enough to be worth the discomfort?
This presumes that the next pandemic primarliy affects the elderly. The 1918 pandemic influenza pandemic produced extreme mortality rates among your adults.