... many vaccines in development. Some by ethical means. Others not. ...
Thank you sabertooth for trying to introduce balance.
By the law of averages some will have bad neurological effects ( kinds of paralysis of faculties ).
Vaccines = virus injection
Many varieties of viral encephalitis (inflammation) are ongoingly bad.
Many of you have to widen your factual awareness.
Stop falling for slick propaganda from some quarters, some of you.
Not everything you prematurely disagree about is "fake news". What happened to your principle of charity (not insisting on a bad construal) and generosity of attitude (not blocking the way of enquiry). The world copies dishonesty seen in Christians' methods of argument.
Nicomachean ethics cover knowledge, prudence, speculative (allowing for what might be) and practical reason, judgment, magnanimity, equity and perseverance in those. Why do so many Christians want to turn back the clock 2,400 years?
It takes 20 to 40 years to develop any vaccine that is decent for most takers.
If a tiny fraction of this budget were spent on making already proven antiviral medicines (for ameliorating chronic and acute situations) available in bigger quantities, the world would be a better place. But they won't do it and it's a bad thing they won't do it. Why aren't Christians up in arms about this?
Can we see acknowledgement of real reality please? Can some of you stop going for ever worse extremes?
What about all the governments that told people to stop keeping 6 ft distance? What about keeping work places shut - now still - when the crowds are partying, when many of their work places actually had safe reopening plans in May and governments rubbished that? (And plans can be made safer as they go)
I was told the death toll would be up to 200,000 in the UK in a year, somewhat above but not exponentially above (and in addition to) a bad flu year for flu. And so far we are a bit below expectation. This was also a good flu year so far. I expect proportions are similar in the US.
Some of the second wave cases are people who had covid earlier as well. But it may well become infectious again.
Why was the list of symptoms of the epidemic kept too narrow - they are very wide & many, and will lead to long term (relative) incapacity for some.
Why haven't governments resigned for having delayed action for the crucial 2 months?
Why is there brutality in some places?
Why weaponise this serious situation against those objectively more vulnerable than (some of) you (so far)? I'm taking this serious situation more seriously than most of you.
Deaths (on top of usual levels) so far seem nearly double that of the 1968 epidemic but far far below the 1918-22.
All eggs in one basket = mask big evils with a (so far) pretend good.
This will take 20 years to develop within a reasonable understanding of safe, like all the others. Of course it's alright to hope it will be quicker.
I haven't touched on record keeping which is an area of legitimate anxieties. All your health records are on the international "cloud" already. If you live in leasehold what about when you can't get in your own home because of something someone bigger than you is finnicking about uncalled for?