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Originally Posted by Ammi

...well I guess that my thoughts are...that 0.01% when applied to the population is an awful lot of lives and an awful lot of deaths that could have been prevented if all possible precautions were taken as medically advised....this virus needs the world to comply with ...it needs the non vulnerable to help preserve life for the vulnerable wherever possible...and it won’t always be possible, I know...but there won’t be many of us that don’t have ‘vulnerable’ in our lives, either with friends or family...and we hope that others around us will comply to help to preserve their lives...

This complacent dismissiveness of deaths is irritating to me.
It's not just the deaths either Ammi, it's the devastation of the loved ones of those lives lost.
What does that do to the percentage.
For each person, there's unknown numbers left grieving and devastated too.

Knowing lives were lost before their time.

However, there's another side too.
We see no figures for this, I'd doubt anyone in authority is even collating any.
However people are left with disabilities,terminal health conditions.
Some needing transplants as organs are damaged..
Even brain damage.

Plus the other effects limiting quality of life to those suffering more acute long covid.

Put all those categories into the effects of this virus.
IF, anyone in power will ever present full and more true figures as to the overall destruction this virus brings to lives and to their loved ones too.
Then see where percentages are.

I don't like lives lost reduced to percentages.
I like even less our government not even offering condolences to the bereaved.
I just will never even attempt to diminish the losses of lives to this virus.

It's one cruel virus for certain, in that in the main the lives it takes, are more likely those vulnerable with other health conditions or the elderly, even not safe in Care homes!!.

It does however impact others lives if they contract it severe enough, to cause them poor health for months or years.
Or even more terminally.