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Aug. 29th, 2021
SARS vs Covid
Aug. 29th, 2021 10:00 pmA lot of anti-maskers like to compare the covid pandemic to the SARS thing, saying covid is as overhyped as SARS, but things to keep in mind:
1. The SARS thing could have been much worse. It ended up being overhyped only because it was largely a false alarm, in that it wasn't nearly as bad as scientists feared it would be. But that's just the way natural disasters are. They're difficult to predict. Sometimes the doom and gloom is on point, and other times they're wrong. "Boy who cried wolf"ism is not applicable here. If they're wrong, the most you're out is a short vacation somewhere else to stay safe. If they're right, however, you and your entire family could die horribly.
2. SARS ended up being a good thing, because it was another corona type virus, and we'd never really even put any real effort into finding a vaccine for that kind of thing before. (Which is why "cure for the common cold" is such a Holy Grail of science. The common cold is also a corona virus.) But SARS was bad enough that scientists began working in earnest to make a vaccine for it. They eventually gave up when SARS turned out to be not as bad as feared, however:
3. Their research made the covid-19 vaccine possible, and is why the vaccine came out as quickly as it did. If SARS hadn't happened, then as of August 29th 2021, I very much doubt we would have had a vaccine for covid-19 yet. So yeah, SARS may have ended up as a false alarm, but its existence is why the vaccine for covid-19 came out so soon, not your stupid conspiracy theory.
4. Imagine if SARS had actually been the pandemic threat we thought it would be. Given that happened during Bush Junior's reign of terror, I think we'd have seen much the same kind of idiotic bullshit from the peanut-brain gallery that we've seen from them for covid-19, but like 18 years early.
5. Science is hard. Science is a process. If you think science has all the answers, you don't understand science. If the fact that science is sometimes wrong scares you, maybe you should get a teddy bear instead of turning to people who claim to have all the answers. Because I guarantee you that anyone who claims to have all the answers is either lying to you or is batshit crazy themselves.
So in conclusion, anti-maskers are like the people who refuse to flee the city when a hurricane is coming because the last one passed the city by or the city only caught the edge of it and was fine, then get surprised when the hurricane destroys their house and kills their family.
"It's all media hype, they get all over-hyped and then nothing happens." Yeah only because these things are so inherently chaotic that our predictions are pretty hit-or-miss, but this isn't the same as the boy who cried wolf. In these cases, the predictions are good enough that you're safer assuming the worst is going to happen every time.
1. The SARS thing could have been much worse. It ended up being overhyped only because it was largely a false alarm, in that it wasn't nearly as bad as scientists feared it would be. But that's just the way natural disasters are. They're difficult to predict. Sometimes the doom and gloom is on point, and other times they're wrong. "Boy who cried wolf"ism is not applicable here. If they're wrong, the most you're out is a short vacation somewhere else to stay safe. If they're right, however, you and your entire family could die horribly.
2. SARS ended up being a good thing, because it was another corona type virus, and we'd never really even put any real effort into finding a vaccine for that kind of thing before. (Which is why "cure for the common cold" is such a Holy Grail of science. The common cold is also a corona virus.) But SARS was bad enough that scientists began working in earnest to make a vaccine for it. They eventually gave up when SARS turned out to be not as bad as feared, however:
3. Their research made the covid-19 vaccine possible, and is why the vaccine came out as quickly as it did. If SARS hadn't happened, then as of August 29th 2021, I very much doubt we would have had a vaccine for covid-19 yet. So yeah, SARS may have ended up as a false alarm, but its existence is why the vaccine for covid-19 came out so soon, not your stupid conspiracy theory.
4. Imagine if SARS had actually been the pandemic threat we thought it would be. Given that happened during Bush Junior's reign of terror, I think we'd have seen much the same kind of idiotic bullshit from the peanut-brain gallery that we've seen from them for covid-19, but like 18 years early.
5. Science is hard. Science is a process. If you think science has all the answers, you don't understand science. If the fact that science is sometimes wrong scares you, maybe you should get a teddy bear instead of turning to people who claim to have all the answers. Because I guarantee you that anyone who claims to have all the answers is either lying to you or is batshit crazy themselves.
So in conclusion, anti-maskers are like the people who refuse to flee the city when a hurricane is coming because the last one passed the city by or the city only caught the edge of it and was fine, then get surprised when the hurricane destroys their house and kills their family.
"It's all media hype, they get all over-hyped and then nothing happens." Yeah only because these things are so inherently chaotic that our predictions are pretty hit-or-miss, but this isn't the same as the boy who cried wolf. In these cases, the predictions are good enough that you're safer assuming the worst is going to happen every time.