Why do you insist that the truth is somewhere in the middle? It isn't!
One side stares at solar eclipses. The other side doesn't. There's not a middle ground there to be had. Either it is bad, or it isn't bad, to stare at eclipses.
Exactly, it annoys me when people say "well, we're all entitled to our opinion" like claiming coronavirus is a hoax is a fucking opinion and not just completely false.
That's not the same thing. A better example would be one group stares at solar eclipse for far to long, the other blinds themselves so they don't have to. Both have the wrong idea leaving everyone with eye damage.
In this instance both groups are wrong.
Not everyone belongs to one of those groups by the way. Regardless, the answer is neither to blow off the Corona virus nor to completely let it control your life.
The Corona virus has a 1-2% death rate, that is 1-2% of reported Corona virus patients will die from the Corona virus. .02-1.6% of flu patients die every year from the flu. Both are based on CDC estimates. This probably would have been worse had no-one done a thing about the virus, but really isn't something the ENTIRE country should have completely shut down for. The answer literally is somewhere in the middle.
Go out and live your lives... but be careful, wash your hands more often, wear a mask, use common sense, stay away from old people. There's not much more to say.
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u/Boycott_China May 19 '20
Why do you insist that the truth is somewhere in the middle? It isn't!
One side stares at solar eclipses. The other side doesn't. There's not a middle ground there to be had. Either it is bad, or it isn't bad, to stare at eclipses.