1. Many governments around the world seem to be busy with various mundane
concerns when deep health and econ troubles are staring at them frontally. See the DOH and even WHO, pushing drug price control of
innovator drugs, penalizing creators of newly invented medicines when it's
precisely those innovator drugs we need to address new diseases. They are busy
regulating products blamed for non-infectious, non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
when real dangers are infectious and communicable diseases like Covid. If we
don't die of infectious diseases or accidents, then we should die of NCDs. It
is crazy to say we should live forever.
2. I see people saying that Covid is bad for people but good
for the environment, implying some gratefulness for this horrible infectious
disease because fossil fuel use worldwide is declining. Garbage logic.
See this for instance,
“fewer cars,
motorcycles, and buses transporting students and employees would translate to
lower fossil fuel consumption. This, in turn, could provide our environment
with a much-needed and long-delayed breather from the carbon rampage of
industrialization.”
3. Old illogic -- fossil fuels are bad, there should be
more oil taxes, more infectious diseases like Covid, etc. Lousy. If people
really believe that fossil fuels are bad, they simply stop using it, don't wait for Covid.
No cars, no jeepney or buses, no airplanes, etc that use fossil fuels. Use
skateboards, bicycles, good running shoes, use solar planes or giant kites. To
demonize fossil fuels then use lots of fossil fuels is 100% double talk and
hypocrisy.
The most dangerous
thing about coronavirus is the hysteria
It is the latest phenomenon to fulfil our weird and
growing appetite for doom
Ross Clark 29
February 2020 9:00 AM
“There is something
more to the Covid-19 panic. It is the latest phenomenon to fulfil a weird and
growing appetite for doom among the populations of developed countries. We are
living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to
accept it. We constantly have to invent bogeymen, from climate alarmism,
nuclear war and financial collapse to deadly diseases. Covid-19 has achieved
such traction because it has emerged at just the right time. At the end of
January, Brexit had just been completed without incident. The standoff between
the US and Iran — which preposterously led the ‘Doomsday Clock’ to be advanced
closer to midnight than during the Cuban missile crisis — fizzled into nothing.
The Australian bush fires, which caused an explosion in climate doom-mongering
(even though the global incidence of wildfires has fallen over the past two
decades) had largely gone out. What more was there to worry about?"
Finally, from my friend, Willis Eschenbach:
US DEATHS
Last winter's flu season - 80,000 deaths
2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic -12,469 deaths
Coronavirus - 1 death
WORLDWIDE DEATHS
Last winter's flu season - 646,000 deaths
2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic - 575,400 deaths
Coronavirus - 2,462 deaths
Take a deep breath, wash your hands often, relax.
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