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Re: Pandemic was just a start of chaos, wars, or becoming zombies!
by
The Pharmacist
on 04/07/2021, 16:02:24 UTC
⭐ Merited by amishmanish (2)
First, poor countries will need to double the effort to catch up with other countries or else it will create chaos in that countries and might start a civil war.
I'm only going to address this one point, because the rest of them just descend into wild flights of fantasy, which are perhaps driven by watching too much Walking Dead.

Civil war as a result of poor countries needing to catch up with richer countries because of....what, exactly?  You do realize that the US had a surplus of the Pfizer vaccine and shipped a bunch of doses to Peru and Pakistan, right?  And who knows if anyone else is helping out other, poorer, countries as well.  And keep in mind that COVID-19 is just a virus that kills far fewer people per year than things like cancer and heart disease.  The fact is that most people who contract COVID-19 recover and move on with their lives--and I've known several friends who've had their whole families contract the virus, and they're fine now.

People are going out of their goddamn minds about this pandemic, when what they ought to be doing is pushing for mask-wearing restrictions to be lifted.  This isn't the worst pandemic ever to hit mankind; it's just the most serious one that's happened in our lifetime.  Had the virus been more virulent (or had it been a different virus), things could have been much worse.  Don't lose your head over this.