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Originally Posted by Wittgenhe!ny
If my old car is close to the end of its finite lifespan, does that imply that I should send it to the scrapyard? Who here has even come close to suggesting such a thing? The fact your mind goes there says way more about you than it does about someone pointing out that your car is old.
Our current covid measures are like requiring fan belt changes for all years, makes, and models, in order to make the older cars last longer. Not even you can believe that makes sense.
Context matters sweetheart.
Tien comment was in reply to the entire segment of 'olds'. EACH and EGEYONE of them and their deaths due to covid.
Using an analogy that they are all already beyond any form of useful life (like your car analogy does) is not a good or appropriate way to address the entire group.
Just like every single old car does not make sense to not repair and instead scrap not every old is simply near death and taking up resources.
if you don't see how that is a disgustingly callous analogy that is on you and not me.
No amount of 'BUT... BUT... some olds are ...' means you should apply that to all the Olds who have died from covid thus far.
It is a pattern with Tien who also suggested anyone who got covid and got worse systems and had a worse recovery then he did must be a fatty, lazy or other.
That may be true of SOME but to suggest it for ALL people who had complications and a worse time with covid is just stupid and callous.
Tien has already admitted he is by definition obese so you can bet some of the people who had worse covid outcomes than him were in apparently better shape.