A year ago i was expecting to see like 10% of world population gone. Thank God this "pandemic" wasn't a pandemic.
Haha, the world population ROSE by over 80 million last year.
LOL.
That's within 1% of the usual population growth rate.
And a pile of the idiots who are scared of COVID are using that as "proof" that what we did worked, and that we have to lock down everything forever so that no one ever gets sick ever again with anything.

Or maybe - JUST MAYBE - COVID is an extremely low lethality virus with a survival rate of 99.73% in people under 70, and not much would have happened anyway, even with no measures in place at all.
The average age of a person dying of Covid-19 is 84.8 years old. That is OLDER THAN THE AVERAGE HUMAN LIFESPAN.
The average person dying of Covid-19 has 2-3 separate health issues. And only 6% of Covid-19 deaths are people who died "exclusively" of Covid-19.
Put another way:
The USA lost 500K people aged 85 last year. Whoa! It's like...if we get old enough, eventually we die!
But only 30K of those people died exclusively of COVID. Even among those people, the average age was 84.8.
Anyone who works in life insurance will know what an "actuarial table" is - basically, the tables life insurance companies use to predict how much lifespan we have left, used in setting rates.
Ok...so how much lifespan does a person have left, who is 84.8 years old?
On average?: About 22 months.
So we can't just look at mortality numbers, we need to look at lifespan lost. The average lifespan lost per person who has died of Covid-19 is under two years.
Furthermore, NO ONE has any business talking about the cost of COVID or the cost of COVID measures until one more full year passes.
Just the AUDACITY for people to make projections based on no data is outrageous to me.
Had you asked me my view, it would have been consistent since Day 1.
That being said, until I can do a complete mathematical analysis using the excess mortality figures [some of which are not even available yet, for some nations], it's impossible for me to do a full/proper assessment.
But we HAVE known the mortality rate for about a full year now. So as soon as it was known the odds of surviving COVID were 99.73% for people under 70, it was time to seriously start comparing that number with the economic implications of COVID. Canada's deficit spending of approximately one BILLION dollars per day for example.
And not ONE SINGLE NEW ICU BED ADDED IN MY CITY.

I'm PROUD to say that here on Getbig, most of us didn't buy into this from the beginning. Some people here are afraid of COVID though...and all I can do is scratch my head...
Any Getbigger who is under 70 and healthy who is afraid of COVID is being irrational. That's all I can say. It's about as stupid as worrying about being struck by lightning.
That said...yeah, we CAN get struck by lightning. But you are a bit of a tool if that worries you.
COVID is an extremely low lethality virus. And it's time we are start evaluating it for what it is.
Once some states open up, nothing is going to stop the rest of the world from opening up.
This concerns me though... heaven forbid an actual deadly bio-weapon is released. Could you imagine?: