Originally Posted by
tirebob
One of my good clients who is a high up doctor of internal medicine here in Calgary (and will remain nameless lol) and specializes in infectious diseases came in Friday last week. No mask on or anything and I asked him what is the straight goods on all this because all we hear is propaganda from both sides. He just smiled and said to relax and there really is nothing to worry about. He said they are basically seeing all the same people that die every year from the flu are the same people dying from covid and virtually all of the few cases of younger people that the media focused on had pre-existing conditions. He said the bigger issues are coming from the people who are sick and dying from other things like cancer and are stuck in hospital without family to visit them etc and they get depressed and give up. He said the amount of death bed visits by skype is disgusting.
He said the same stuff about washing hands and don’t be a total idiot is all.
I believe him more than I believe anything else out there so take that for whatever you want, but I am comfortable.
All well and good, but what did he have to say about NY or Italy? Same people dying from flu and pneumonia?
I want to believe we’re overreacting (best case scenario).
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft