Having spent first 20 years of my life in virus infested India (population density 12 times USA), I have seen viruses come and viruses go. I came down with small pox virus at age 8.. It was a serious infectious disease caused by the variola virus. It was contagious—meaning, it spread from one person to another. People who had smallpox had a fever and a distinctive, progressive skin rash. Most people with smallpox recovered, but about 3 out of every 10 people with the disease died. Comparatively covid-19 is a pussy cat.
Imagine 30% mortality rate! Yet no one panicked. My mom nursed me back to health. She later told me I was hanging on to life by a thread with excruciatingly high fever and puss filled eruptions all over my 8 year old body. There was no shutdown, I was quarantined to my bedroom, and survived. I still have scars on my face after 72 years. Burned 80 candles this year and aiming for 100. The treadmill is a wonderful gadget. Mowed my entire lawn this morning with a push mower (not self-propelled) and it has been hot and humid in Florida in July. It was 80 degrees at 9 am when I mowed. Exercise is the best medicine!
Let me see if if I understand the lesson learned from your life experiences that you seem to believe should serve as an epidemiological model for action during a pandemic.
You survived smallpox at age 8 and nobody was in a panic about it. You were probably exposed to C-19 on a cruise and may have acquired immunity. You stay fit and mow your lawn with a push mower. In another post, you recommended washing hands and not touching your face, but masks aren't necessary since you believe that touching contaminated surfaces is more infectious than aerosol particles, except if someone is coughing or sneezing, and then run away quickly.
You're healthy and have lived to 80, therefore, your conclusion is that our strategy for the nation should be to do nothing more than you do since that worked well for you. Right?
Is his confirmation bias at its core any different then your
Trump derangement syndrome
or that your only post about the virus?
confirmation bias[confirmation bias]NOUNconfirmation bias (noun)
the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
You may not be aware of the difference between conclusions derived from personal experience and evidence offered by the outstanding virologists, epidemiologists, and other scientists. Since the late Renaissance, the scientific method has demonstrated its value over intuitions from random or personalized inspirations. It may have been of value to have paid more attention in fifth-grade science. I assume that when you need medical help that you don't go to a trader but you see a doctor.
I make no claim to offer original interpretations. I simply present conclusions of those with expertise and some of the evidence on which it is based. We can go back to the Middle Ages or proceed with the scientific method. My choice is clear. You can insist that these conclusions are a conspiracy in a flimsy effort to justify your own theories. Accusing scientists of heresy has a long history. You can accuse me of Trump derangement syndrome and remain blithely unaware that personal attacks expose the frailty of illogical reasoning.