Re:re Re:re:Do YOUR job MILLS!!!!

Augusta ME

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It's said, "covid is only an issue if you're over 60." Well, um, lessee, what does "an issue" mean? Sounds like death, from the stats cited. So, your point? That which doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger, and only death is an issue? Or you mean, it's only an issue for the 20% of the people in the state who are over 60, so the rest of us don't need to worry, and 1 in every 5 people in the state at high risk of death is no big deal, not "an issue"? Or do you mean if you're not in that 20%, and aren't really at risk of dying, you don't need to worry about whether you might infect them while you're not dying, that that's not "an issue"? Or do you mean that, if you or somebody in your family can't get an ICU bed when they need it because all the ICU beds are full with people over 60 trying not to die of covid, that that's not "an issue" (maybe you have no family)? I think you have a very, very short-sighted, self-centered definition of what's "an issue". Sounds like for you, if it's not right in your backyard or even closer to home, it's "not an issue", so long as it's someone else's problem, and not yours. I don't think that's how most people look at it. As for MVAs you mention, there's not even any parallel. The annual death count from covid you say yourself is over 4x higher from covid than from MVAs (900 vs 200 - age over 60 or not seems irrelevant to that number, but nice cherry picking), while, more importantly, the death rate from covid, is far, far higher than MVAs, whether you count exposures as actual MVAs, or, more reasonably, as driving trips. Your risk of dying from covid exposure is astronomically higher than it is from exposure to MVAs from driving a car (and the risk of covid exposure only increases as you have a lot of under 60 people running around unmasked and unvaccinated and exposing everyone while not dying themselves). Your statement and analogy is false, because your reasoning is flawed. That's why you underestimate the risk (and why the news is currently full of people only realizing they misunderstood the risks when it happened to them personally). One of the primary reasons Maine was successful in not becoming Florida or Texas or other such hotspots was because restrictions limiting exposure were enacted early and fairly proactively, as was the vaccine rollout. (Another is likely because District 2 is already by rural geography socially distanced, despite widespread misguidedly politically motivated opposition to commonsense public health measures, lol - tho they're in the red now not just politically, but also in exposure risk, gee, wonder why.) For that proactive stance you should probably be thankful. Even if it didn't save your life, it probably saved the life of someone you know.