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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4632937" data-attributes="member: 63706">He&#039;s baiting you. One minute we&#039;re the richest country on earth the next we&#039;re an empire in decline. Whichever he thinks helps him make his point at the moment.Control measures don&#039;t actually do much, except maybe delay the inevitable. This virus isn&#039;t close to the most deadly we&#039;ve ever encountered, but, as a planet, we&#039;ve expended more resources on failed attempts at containment than fight even worse diseases. The main reason any population may do better than others is demographic in nature. We currently have no way to know that Covid didn&#039;t sweep through some places before we were aware of its existence. We don&#039;t know why some people are susceptible and others aren&#039;t. We know O blood types have an easier time dealing with the virus. My guess is most countries don&#039;t have the healthcare resources to keep so many people with severe health conditions alive. In those countries the people who would have died of Covid are already dead because they don&#039;t have access to the things that we use to artificially extend people&#039;s lives. How many people in the US are on drugs designed specifically to limit immune response because they have an autoimmune disorder? Those people would probably be dead in a third world country, here, pre-covid, they are alive, but more susceptible to infectious agents. People like Ricky have to smooth over complicating factors because they don&#039;t understand them, and they don&#039;t help the narrative they are pushing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4632937, member: 63706"] He's baiting you. One minute we're the richest country on earth the next we're an empire in decline. Whichever he thinks helps him make his point at the moment. Control measures don't actually do much, except maybe delay the inevitable. This virus isn't close to the most deadly we've ever encountered, but, as a planet, we've expended more resources on failed attempts at containment than fight even worse diseases. The main reason any population may do better than others is demographic in nature. We currently have no way to know that Covid didn't sweep through some places before we were aware of its existence. We don't know why some people are susceptible and others aren't. We know O blood types have an easier time dealing with the virus. My guess is most countries don't have the healthcare resources to keep so many people with severe health conditions alive. In those countries the people who would have died of Covid are already dead because they don't have access to the things that we use to artificially extend people's lives. How many people in the US are on drugs designed specifically to limit immune response because they have an autoimmune disorder? Those people would probably be dead in a third world country, here, pre-covid, they are alive, but more susceptible to infectious agents. People like Ricky have to smooth over complicating factors because they don't understand them, and they don't help the narrative they are pushing. [/QUOTE]

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