your snark completely obliterates your argument. nobody will listen to you if you talk like that.

i'm telling you this as someone on your side.

Yes there is.

I'm fine with the Bill Gates bashing, but this is like saying there's no reason to stop having unprotected sex after you've tested positive for HIV using a test with a 20% false positive rate. Stop doing things that would potentially spread the disease, then take a better test.

If the goal is really to protect people, then we shouldn't stop at isolation. We should ban all of the things that could potentially harm people: alcohol, tobacco, fast food, sex (protected or otherwise - there is too much risk), and driving. We should remove all peoples' liberties to protect them from all threats.

You didn't do one bit of math before writing that.

In 2.5 hours, about 10 people will die in car accidents in the US. (100 per day)

Versus about 100 people from Covid (1000 per day).

Only 8% of the US population does NOT have access to a car. Exclude the elderly and children.. but that's still not enough of a difference to explain an order of magnitude more deaths.

You draw a lot of conclusions from rhetoric instead of facts. That's exactly what got us into this mess.

0-19 years: 0.00003 20-49 years: 0.0002 50-69 years: 0.005 70+ years: 0.054

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

Of those that died in all age groups, the majority had at least one serious pre-existing condition prior to infection. In general most healthy young people are at higher risk from vehicle accidents than COVID-19, but the risk calculus changes significantly for those who are older or in poor health.

If anything we’ve successfully argued why people with comorbid risk factors (old age, diabetes, asthma, obesity, etc.) should remain isolated, but even that is looking sketchy as the death rate continues to plummet.

A comorbidity is something that contributed to death, not necessarily a pre-existing condition.

Please take another look at the CDC report you’re extrapolating your claim from. You’ll see comorbidities such as

* Influenza and pneumonia

* Adult respiratory distress syndrome

* Respiratory failure

* Respiratory arrest

* Cardiac arrest

As it stands you’re essentially saying that if you have no pre-existing conditions, then being shot is fairly risk free. After all, people who die from gunshot wounds have comorbidities like blood loss, cardiac arrest, brain damage, laceration of internal organs, and sepsis.

That seems a reasonable thing to do, because unlike all your other hyperbolic examples it is potentially harmful to large numbers of other people.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...