I'm glad you got to see your brother and his family. And that you were not injured in the crash. And it's great that you have wheels again. Are you writing your old car off?
As to Covid... Over six million dead and no big deal... In Hong Kong, people masked up during SARS and it's really no big deal... I mean, surely you've heard of better safe than sorry?
Also, AIDS is a lot worse in Africa and that's mostly through heterosexual sex. It could be that the reason AIDS did not hit as badly in the West precisely because all the health professionals kept on warning people, etc.
Six million out of how many billion? I'd also like to see statistics about how many of those people already had health-threatening conditions. When I used to work at a nursing home, and when my mother worked at two of them, we were both warned in ferocious tones that if we had so much as a mild cold, we were to call in sick. What to us would be a mild cold could easily endanger the fragile eldsters we were dealing with.
As for AIDS in Africa---read Michael Fumento's book sometime. He discusses things the news media choose not to emphasize. Like the fact that since homosexuality in sub-Saharan Africa is heavily, heavily taboo (about on the level of incest) many African gays will loudly deny that they are gay...and will often have sex with opposite-sex partners (in practice, they're more "bi" than out-and-out homosexual). Also, African medical clinics often re-use things like needles that are one-use-and-toss among us. This is mainly due to poverty, but it does mean that diseases spread very quickly once they're around.
I really think Covid wasn't as bad as, say, the Spanish flu precisely because of all our precautions and vaccines. And it might hit Africa, etc., yet, as most people there still aren't vaccinated. Hong Kong had extremely few cases for two years, and then got to over 45,000 cases per day when omicron hit, partly because people refused to get vaccinated because most people don't trust the government.
As to the elderly dying, the 50 to 64 still died by a really high margin. And the cause of death for the truly old is still Covid even if their health is already bad. Just because a person is old and infirm before being killed by, say, some truck hitting them doesn't mean their cause of death isn't a traffic accident. Their being frail might have prevented them from walking away quickly, but the cause of death stays the same.
There are more women infected with/died from HIV/AIDS in Africa than men. Just because how the men go infected is somewhat unclear, the women still mostly got it from heterosexual sex.
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As to Covid... Over six million dead and no big deal... In Hong Kong, people masked up during SARS and it's really no big deal... I mean, surely you've heard of better safe than sorry?
Also, AIDS is a lot worse in Africa and that's mostly through heterosexual sex. It could be that the reason AIDS did not hit as badly in the West precisely because all the health professionals kept on warning people, etc.
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As for AIDS in Africa---read Michael Fumento's book sometime. He discusses things the news media choose not to emphasize. Like the fact that since homosexuality in sub-Saharan Africa is heavily, heavily taboo (about on the level of incest) many African gays will loudly deny that they are gay...and will often have sex with opposite-sex partners (in practice, they're more "bi" than out-and-out homosexual). Also, African medical clinics often re-use things like needles that are one-use-and-toss among us. This is mainly due to poverty, but it does mean that diseases spread very quickly once they're around.
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As to the elderly dying, the 50 to 64 still died by a really high margin. And the cause of death for the truly old is still Covid even if their health is already bad. Just because a person is old and infirm before being killed by, say, some truck hitting them doesn't mean their cause of death isn't a traffic accident. Their being frail might have prevented them from walking away quickly, but the cause of death stays the same.
There are more women infected with/died from HIV/AIDS in Africa than men. Just because how the men go infected is somewhat unclear, the women still mostly got it from heterosexual sex.
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