Letter to Virus Deniers

Today I heard a new excuse for ignoring the coronavirus. This blew my mind. The basic failure in logic is stunning.

Some people think COVID-19 is a hoax. Some people think some Cabal created this as part of a grand conspiracy. Both these groups use that as justification to continue going out and socializing as if nothing is wrong.

I am going to try not to pass any judgement on the intelligence levels of these people or ideas. Instead let’s just stick with the facts.

1) People are dying. Yes people die from the flu every year but this virus is much, much more contagious.

2) If it is a hoax then World Health Organization, NIH (National Institute of Health), and John Hopkins University are all being fooled. Do you really think they are all “in on it”? That is highly unlikely and would be a first in our history.

3) Is the virus from the Cabal? Frankly it does not matter where the virus came from or whether there is a hidden agenda. When a bomb is sitting in front of you the correct action is to run as fast and far away as possible, not to sit and ponder who sent the bomb! Conspiracy theories are NOT RELEVANT at this moment. This extremely contagious virus exists and is deadly - that is all that is relevant at this time.

Risk versus Reward

Should you continue to go out in public and socialize?

If this is a hoax and you stay inside and self-quarantine… you have a week or two of staying around the house. Make the best of it and work on your backyard, play board games, binge watch Netflix, reorganize the garage, etc.

If this is a hoax and you go out… you have a few days of regular activity. Value of that: nothing, it is just like every other day of the year.

If this is NOT a hoax and you go out… you start a domino effect of death. YOU might get sick and get better, but the odds are you will infect several other people. Some of the people you infect will die. Everyone you infect will infect others of which some of them will die. You might not care that nurses and doctors will be working non-stop and have to decide which people live and die when they run out of ventilators… but the people that die care and those doctors will have guilt nightmares for life.

Scenario

The virus-denier feels healthy and wants to go to the bar or night club. They go and dance in a packed room with hundreds of other people. They get infected and take it home. Over the next 2 weeks they have no symptoms but they infect their parents, sister's kid and their grampa. Grampa goes to bingo and infects 6 seniors. The kid goes to preschool and infects a dozen children. Virus-denier has already gone out to two new clubs and passed the coronavirus to 40 other healthy 20-somethings or 30-somethings.

Two months later the majority of the senior center are dead and since the entire school caught it, that killed hundreds of children. But don’t worry, there’s a happy ending. The virus-denier lives and had several really good nights dancing!

Summary

I really hope this turns out to be a hoax and everyone on earth emails me saying they needlessly stayed in their homes for 2 weeks and got work done around their house. They can hate me for that. However I fear what will really happen is people will go out, come home and infect their parents, grand parents and children. Then the parents/children and grand parents will go out and infect others. Then the death starts in an exponential spiral. Going out is just not worth the risk.

If I am wrong and it is a hoax you can feel great telling me I was stupid. How will you feel if you are wrong and people die?

-Akronos Mago

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