April 23, 2021
Death and Covid
Selwyn Duke
https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/04/americans-are-irrationally-fearful-of-covid-partially-because-weve-become-wimps-about-risk.html
World population did not explode "because people started breeding like rabbits,†American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt once noted, "but because they stopped dying like flies.†This truth reflects the reality that for most of history, life was generally tough and often brutal and short, fraught with serious risk. Today, though, we have a bubble-wrap mentality, and this is absolutely part of the reason why too many Americans are treating COVID-19 as if it’s an Omega Man situation.
Tim adds:
When I was a kid nobody ever wore helmeets or knee and elbow pads to ride bicycles. We used to go where we pleased and nobody worried about dangers overmuch. I would leave home at eight a.m. on a Saturday and not come home until dark during the summer. No cell phone and my parents didn't know where I was. Risk was part of life and part of the freedom we enjoyed. Now children are locked up like veal, and nothing is ever unsupervised. I feel sorry for these kids; they are prisoners, and will be for the rest of their days. Institutionaliz
https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/04/americans-are-irrationally-fearful-of-covid-partially-because-weve-become-wimps-about-risk.html
World population did not explode "because people started breeding like rabbits,†American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt once noted, "but because they stopped dying like flies.†This truth reflects the reality that for most of history, life was generally tough and often brutal and short, fraught with serious risk. Today, though, we have a bubble-wrap mentality, and this is absolutely part of the reason why too many Americans are treating COVID-19 as if it’s an Omega Man situation.
Tim adds:
When I was a kid nobody ever wore helmeets or knee and elbow pads to ride bicycles. We used to go where we pleased and nobody worried about dangers overmuch. I would leave home at eight a.m. on a Saturday and not come home until dark during the summer. No cell phone and my parents didn't know where I was. Risk was part of life and part of the freedom we enjoyed. Now children are locked up like veal, and nothing is ever unsupervised. I feel sorry for these kids; they are prisoners, and will be for the rest of their days. Institutionaliz
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Not just bicycles. You bring to mind again the "war reporter" who in on camera reporting from the "front lines" (actually about two miles from any actual gunfire). The reporter is wearing a flak vest and a helmet with the strap buttoned under his chin. All of the military people are strolling around him in tee shirts and bareheaded. I always have to grip the arms of my chair to prevent falling on the floor laughing.
Posted by: Bill H at April 23, 2021 09:20 AM (/sW5m)
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Yeah Bill; it's a mindset. The media wants us to be afraid to live. And sadly many of us are afraid. The Covid restrictions are proof-positive of that.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 24, 2021 07:25 AM (QPM9n)
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around him in tee shirts and bareheaded. I always have to grip the arms of my chair to prevent falling on the floor laughing.
Posted by: jaeger at November 20, 2023 08:48 PM (Clze2)
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