I wish humanity would put as much concern and urgency into mental health/addiction/substance abuse which is a much, much more damaging pandemic than COVID is or ever will be. Not at the expense of contact tracing/limiting our personal freedoms though.
That's a subjective statement, and a very interesting one.
One: Presumes humanity isn't putting as much concern or urgency into those issues as COVID. Which is an interesting take. There is a lot of media attention on COVID right now, but to say we don't spend money on those other issues is a bit troubling to me. Trump is building a multi billion dollar border wall to keep out the drug dealers. Less tongue in cheek, annual drug control spending in the US is over 20 billion a year - double the annual budget of the CDC. This is before we get into money spent on mental health, the existence of alcoholics anonymous, etc...
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Two: "a much, much more damaging pandemic than COVID is or ever will be". Interesting. 70,000 or so US Citizens were lost to drug overdoses in 2019. We are at 120k and rising in 2020 for COVID. Substance abuse deaths will repeat this year, and on and on, though we don't really have a pure statement that COVID will just vanish. Prior to the Measles vaccine, it was killing tens of thousands per year in a much smaller, less mobile population. Had we not come up with a vaccine, the deaths due to measles would swamp substance addiction.
Three: "Not at the expense of contact tracing/limiting our personal freedoms though". I'm not going to go through the history of this board, but I'm guessing you are on team "San Francisco is gross with all the stoned out homeless people shooting up on the streets". If we throw them in jail, is that not limiting their personal freedom?
It really is amusing how little you think about what you post before hitting the enter key
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