Don't want to be that 1. Imagine if it was someone you cared about. People dying affects families. You say "One person died".
You do make a point.
Hmf.
Good Sir. You have given me something to think about.
We may have suffered global economic losses from combined reduced economic activity and record high deficit spending of over $10 TRILLION, while [speaking of $10 trillion] in that same time period, all 2,095 global billionaires increased their combined net worth $639 billion, bringing their total net wealth up to just over the $10 trillion mark. That means that each billionaire increased their net worth by just under $328 MILLION each, and that figure was from three months ago - so it wouldn't shock me if they $100 million each to that figure by now.
But that's cool - global billionaires increasing their combined wealth by nearly a TRILLION dollars while the global economy takes a hit of TEN TRILLION, not to mention all the excess deaths by suicide, drug overdoses, people not being allowed to attend church, be with their husband of wife of 50+ years while they are on their deathbed, not be allowed to hug their grieving mother or grandmother or other relative at the funeral of their father or grandfather, all while calling this "The New Normal" after initially telling us that it was just going to be "two weeks to flatten the curve" [!] through lock-down and other TEMPORARY strict measures.
And if anyone saw the potential disaster this could lead to if world leaders and governments took away more and more freedoms by telling us about all the rising "cases" while never telling us about the numbers of deaths or even serious illnesses causes by COVID, they were immediately branded a tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.
Meanwhile, only 26 Canadians under the age of 40 have died from COVID out of 18,559,957 Canadians in that age demographic.
Or, put another, 0.00014% of the under 40 demographic in Canada has died of COVID thus far - meaning that 99.9998599% have SURVIVED this pandemic, despite it being in Canada for almost all of 2020; ever since January 25th when a Chinese man arrived in Toronto from Wuhan, China - you know...Wuhan - the EPICENTRE OF THE OUTBREAK.
But we don't want to be "racist" here in Canada. We prefer unleashing a pandemic into our "diverse" and "tolerant" multiracial/multicultural nation, and watch 10,768 Canadians die [and counting] with a current total of over 283,000 cases, growing at a rate of over 5,500 a day, which will almost certainly become exponential.
I'm not saying I'm afraid of COVID - given the average death caused by COVID is in a person aged 84.8 years old with 2-3 separate health comorbidities, these people were from a statistical perspective, within 6-18 months of dying anyway [confirmed by actuarial tables all across North America]. But even though the virus itself wasn't as deadly as originally thought, the damage to the economy has been devastating.
Canada has gone into debt due to deficit spending of
$343 billion in 2020 alone.That's more debt in one year than in the previous 27 years combined [see table below].
Canada is spending
$940 MILLION PER DAY - almost a full BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY on measures to protect Canadians from a virus that has a 99.5% survival rate for people under the age of 70.
You speak about "one life", as if saving a single life is worth a billion dollars - as if we even HAVE this money to spend [either in Canada, where I know for a FACT we are bankrupt, or in the USA, where I suspect the situation is basically the same], but what about the lives that could have been saved and literally extended by DECADES [not just months or a couple of years at most, in the majority of COVID cases] with the $343 BILLION Canada added to its debt this year?
In 2001, a friend of mine told me that the 1997 heart surgery performed on Arnold [bodybuilding-related] cost him $500,000 USD, and that he wouldn't have been alive at the time [2001] if he wasn't the man he was [or alive now, if that is true]. My friend said that Arnold had steel plates put in his chest, and that he had a surgery that was very cutting-edge at the time, and as a result, very rarely performed on anyway, in large part due to its price; not being covered by most insurance plans, not being available AT ALL in Canada, and ultimately limited only to those who could afford it].
Let's say that Canada's government spent that $343 billion deficit spending on lifesaving medical procedures costing around $500,000 each for Canadians, on procedures such as organ transplants, extensive, invasive, and obviously EXPENSIVE heart surgeries, and other procedures, or expensive medical prescriptions available under most American healthcare plans, but unavailable in most Canadian provinces.
Although this may have changed, Avastin is a top-of-the-line chemotherapy drug that was only available in British Columbia and Newfoundland in 2007, although that may have changed since.
My point is that the $343 billion that Canada has gone into deficit spending over could have saved the lives of
686,000 Canadians at a cost of $500,000, and extended their lives by DECADES, not by an average of 18 months, as with those dying of Covid-19 [given their average age, health conditions, and the resultant lifespan left, from an actuarial perspective].
Yes - every life matters. One life matters. But would you bankrupt the entire road, eventually causing all 7.8 billion people on the planet to die, to use that money to save ONE life? Does that make any sense?
I think this is why liberals need conservatives:
Liberals take risks that conservatives are much less prone to take. Hence the title "conservative". But liberals...don't seem to understand the basic requirements to run an economy, including how to evaluate the positives and negatives of a given policy or law by creating a cost/benefit analysis.
I don't want anyone to die from Covid-19. But if we continue to damage the global economy at the current rate, there will be no money left to save anyone from dying. That's an exaggeration...but not by much, depending on how this plays out. Only time will tell...
