TL;DR:
We're dealing with a new virus, which we still know very little about. Some small scale research has been done and we're trying to make the best predictions based on ever increasing data and knowledge. Policy will be adjusted according to new insights.
We take these serious measures, to avoid getting totally screwed over by something we have not encountered before in these 'modern' times.
The fine balance of keeping the economy going and keeping our society (including weaker and elderly people) safe is a delicate one.
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COVID-19 has been GALACTICALLY overblown.
Not maybe - 100% for certain.
There is no reason WHATSOEVER to shutdown the economy over this - NONE. And these statistics were known to governments months ago.
Unless you actually know about genetics and biology, then the picture changes, and you would probably try to be very cautious.
The numbers are what they are because of how we contained it, not because it's 'just just a flu', even if we didn't do a very good job doing so initially.
It's hard to imagine how things would have looked if we hadn't acted, i don't think it'd be a pretty picture.
Our economy was/is a house of cards anyway, this recession (if not depression) was due late anyway, this was just a catalyst. The solutions being implemented right now to keep things ticking, are at the very core of the problem, so even after the pandemic, the economic situation will probably not be very nice for a large portion of the population.
The fraction of asymptomatic infections or those with few symptoms range from little under 30% from Korean, Japanese and Chinese research to about 90% from German research and anything in between. The problem is the scale of this research, samples are way too small and local to get to any useful conclusion, but the media just loves to gobble up this news and present it as spectacular.
Here is more:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/25/two-thirds-patients-die-coronavirus-would-have-died-year-anyway/
This is from that HUGE big shot in the UK. And even he admits that at least 2/3 of people who will die of COVID-19 were going to die this year anyway.
Did you even read this yourself beyond the headline? It's a lot of "maybe" going on there. This article is a month old and they underestimated the death toll quite a bit by well over 50%. Again, that is WITH the protocols in place. Comorbidity doesn't mean 'they would have died soon anyway', it just means there was an additional condition that compromised their ability to recover.
And I can show LOTS more links that back up what I am saying. If the ignorant masses (not saying you are one of them) would stop blindly believing whatever the MSM and the government tells them and do just a little research themselves...they could have seen the truth long ago.
Sure you can, it's the internet. I'm sure you can find a reference to corona virus somewhere in one of the Simpsons episode and how they were going to build 5G antennas to spread this humanly engineered virus... Or any other scenario you can imagine really, you can find 'evidence' for it on the internet.
Oh no wait, i like the one with the China bio weapon designed to shut down the US economy more.
All the government's should have done was warn those people with serious health issues to self-quarantine, give them some money if they need it and let everyone else lead normal lives.
And when should they have done that? As i said before, still at this point after months of pandemic, we're just starting to learn how this thing works.
The response of most of world was questionable to say the least, preventive measures would have saved a lot of drama, instead they chose to prioritize the economy and keep things going for as long as possible.
Well that didn't work out too nicely now did it.
We can barely get on top of it with full lock downs... (yea i know, UK and US are totally not on top of this... but an increasing number of countries are) If you just 'warn the elderly', nobody would take it serious i think, people hardly do already at this moment.
COVID-19 is NOTHING but some overblown virus that virtually kills ONLY weak, old people.
It is fatal MAINLY in elderly and people with underlying conditions, NOT only.
The protocols in place are not to protect you, the strong alpha male that can withstand any virus, illness or injury! Or is it...?
It is to protect the weak in our society and our health care system and everybody working in it. Then non-covid issues all of a sudden become indirect covid issues.
Alright, time to take off the tin-foil hat, put your confirmation bias back into the closet, do some science.
We are still applying 'old' methods to treat covid patients, there are countless reports of inconsistent symptoms and reactions to treatment. We are still far from understanding this thing and having a consensus on how to best classify and treat it. I would vouch for treating carefully and try to learn as much as we can without totally overwhelming the medical system. We're just trying to establish 'controlled conditions' so to say. Proceed from there.