Death watch? Waiting for the day we have no covid 19 deaths is a death watch?
Not the way I understand the term. I've been following the progress of the efforts against the virus and the only benchmarks are infection and death, which sounds like a gruesome thing to follow but since the point has been to track the numbers along the way to zero, it's more of a 'life watch', way I see it.
I mean no disrespect but here is my point. There will NEVER be a day when people do not die of a virus. Even if they come up with a vaccine for Covid 19, there will be more and more viruses. Viruses and death are a part of life.
The media has made it seem as if Covid 19 is a unique phenomena to worry about. Today as we speak someone dies every 10 seconds and people will die from a plethora of viruses and diseases far more deadly than Covid 19, whether they be cancer, diseases of the organs like kindey, liver heart, lungs, brain, immunity disorders, muscular wasting diseases such as MD, MS, ALS, inherited diseases like Huntington's Chorea, and then a plethora of viruses bacterias, fungii, by car accidents, domestic violence, war, crime. The majority of people who die usually are dying from malnutrition and related conditions such as typhoid fever, malaria, dengue fever, cholera and e-coli, sexually transmitted viruses, congenital birth defects.
Do you keep an eye on those death rates and wish for the day they won't exist as well? Of course not. So the question is why does this one virus preoccupy you to the point that you watch it as closely as you do? Is it because you feel its unique and its not a situation humanity has faced before?
My point is about perspective. The media has distorted it and I challenge whether you and others do because of what the media has fed you. The media obsesses over it excluding all other stories. Since Covid 19 has hit, the media limited from travel other than the Lloyd shooting and the usual dose of Trump each day,covers what?
Thousands upon millions of people die everyday and the media does not mention the stories of such people and you focus on Covid 19. Obsessing over whether a disease will be cured or not won't make them go away, just perhaps the one you have focused on. In the long run why not focus on something else as well?
That is my point. Up to point of course its an important story. But to zap out the rest of life and have it be your major focus? You are missing out on life man.