...and lots of old people that are artificially being kept alive with bags full of pills every day.
Neven, we know, you didn’t need to go there. Most elderly over 80 or 85 are alive because of the bag of pills. Don’t be insensitive, please. My father died in May 17 (not Covid, just a very old person), should we feel bad because Medicine enlarged his life maybe 10 years and he got to meet two great-grandchildren?
Of course Covid has taken the life of many of those so easily, but yeah even when you have your argument to do and your argument to win, be more considerate (if you can, probably not).
+1 with this.
I recently lost my mother, also not Covid, also kept alive due to medications that allowed her to meet more grandkids and see them grow up a bit more.
The thing is this.... humans have always kept old people alive linger than they should. We are a social species, we care for each other, and it works.
Old people give us huge amounts of value in their life experience, knowledge and wisdom.... the West has forgotten this aspect of old people and it is sad.
If people can live longer because of meds, good. What a shame the West is okay with them dying before their time and find them expendable.
The West is a sick culture and it shows in abundance with the attitude of "they are old and sick so it doesn't really count".
Most other cultures are sickened about the attitude of the West towards the elderly and those who need support. While living in a Non-West culture for two years, all I heard about was how strange Westerners are and when they explained their points, I had to agree with them. This virus is exposing a gapping hole in the West in terms of lack of care for other, lack of community, and it shows just how awesfully isolated we have become.
It is not okay to be okay with old people dying before their time, meds or no meds, it doesn't matter. We do what we can, when we can, regardless of the condition of the person we are protecting.
Seriously, this thread is starting to make me sick reading, and several people here need to review their hearts because something is broken in them.
You are argue from the point of view of how bad the virus is or isn't, but to be so blatantly uncaring is just outright wrong. Is it really surprising that the West has created climate change and allows environmental destruction to happen when we cant even care about people who need help in our own backyard?