Mạng sống là vô giá

thì cũng phải có giá nào đó chứ,

cứ nhân danh "không để ai chết vì covid" mà đảo lộn cuộc sống của bao người khác...
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Daniel Hannan nicely summarizes the reason why pessimism (bi quan, yếm thế) about humanity’s future – now that most of us have been infected with Covid Derangement Syndrome (hội chứng loạn trí vì covid) – is justified.

Will coronavirus deaths be treated like stroke (đột quỵ) or cancer (ung thư) deaths – an ugly reality (thực tế xấu xa) in an imperfect world (thế giới không hoàn hảo)? Or will they become the medical equivalent of terrorist fatalities, blamed on state policy? Early signs point to the latter.

For a year, now, the world’s media have exaggerated (phóng đại, cường điệu) the impact of human agency on the virus. Every international disparity (chênh lệch, cách biệt) in infection (nhiễm) or death (tử vong) rates is presented as a result of policy (hậu quả của chính sách), rather than of differences in demographics, population density, pre-existing immunity, climate or, indeed, luck.

With most diseases, we take for granted that prevalence varies geographically; but, when it comes to the coronavirus, we pretend otherwise.

It is possible that we will eventually treat Covid as an endemic (bệnh địa phương) seasonal (theo mùa) illness – as we do with, say, Spanish flu, whose virulence has declined over the years. But it is equally possible the reverse will happen, that other diseases will be treated like Covid, that every lethal virus will trigger demands for a lockdown.
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“You can’t put a value on human life” is a good slogan, but a bad policy. The one thing worse than putting a value on life is refusing to do so.

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