Greetings Coldtea!

In preparation for responding to your response, I spent a good amount of time reading many of your other comments/responses on HN.

As best I can ascertain from that reading, you are highly, highly intelligent.

That is a compliment, by the way!

Now, in preparation for my response, I believe what you should know is that what I'm going to say is not personal, it's only how I feel, only how I feel at this point in time -- and it could very well be wrong on one or more levels.

OK, with that disclaimer out of the way, here we go:

>"That gives 2,5 million people in the US with serious issues / death."

328.2 million in the US have serious issues / death or eventual death -- DUE TO OLD AGE.

That is, we are not biologically immortal.

Which brings up another philosophical issue:

If the average life expectancy for someone living in the U.S. is 78.93 years (in 2020) -- does this mean that other nations whose life expectancies are less than 78.93 years -- are guilty of killing their citizens early, because they don't follow the "best practices" of the U.S., that is, they don't do exactly what the U.S. does in its governance?

Also, would it be justified then, for those nations to control and micromanage, basically take away all of their citizens' freedoms -- in the name of increasing the average life expectancy of their citizens?

How does the old saying go? "Those who are willing to trade a little bit of their freedom for security -- deserve neither" ?

Every person who lives on God's green earth (or merely "this green earth", if that suits your religious or non-religious predilections better) has a "serious life-long issue", which is called Old Age -- and eventual (guaranteed!) death, due to that condition.

If you're going to give me a number like 2,5 million people in the US with serious issues / death, then please first understand how a statistic like that might be generated (what's the old saying, "there are lies, damned lies, and statistics"?).

Take that number, that statistic -- and please subtract all of the people who had a serious underlying health condition (Cancer, Heart Disease, Obesity, AIDS, Diabetes, or any other serious incurable disease).

Take that number -- and subtract people whose immune systems are compromised due to Old Age.

And take that number, and subtract smokers, drinkers, drug users, and people that don't exercise or eat right.

That number, once you finally refine it, through those filters, is going to be small, very small, much less than what the flu kills (again, remember that covid and flu kills via co-factors, "comorbidities" in medical parlance).

But, that exceedingly small number of people -- represents the exceedingly small number of people who didn't have a choice.

You see, the rest of the people have a choice.

That is, if someone has a known risk factor, a known comorbidity, then they can (and probably should) opt to self-quarantine.

But, not to prevent giving a disease they don't have to others -- but to prevent them from getting a disease which could be fatal to them and them only -- from others.

In other words, government orders and mandates to everyone -- invert the true social responsibility -- from those with the health conditions that require special care, those with comorbid conditions -- to the general population, when the general population is in no way responsible for those individuals' compromised health conditions in the first place.

Now with that out of the way, let's return to your comment:

>"That gives 2,5 million people in the US with serious issues / death."

OK, here's my question: Why do you care?

And here's the thing: You used a comma "," in your figure of 2,5 million.

Why is that important?

It's important because see, people here in the U.S. would have used "2.5 million" with a period: "." .

That tells me that you are not from the U.S.

I wanted to be sure that this was the case; that's why I read most of your comments until I was certain; if you want proof, I can show you multiple examples of where your past HN comments, in one way or another, show this to be true.

So I reiterate:

If you don't live in the U.S. -- then why do you care so much about what happens in the U.S.?

It's not like I go around writing messages to people that post messages about CoronaVirus in other countries and say stuff like, "Oh no, you're wrong, 20 trillion Elbonians will die!".

Why do you care so much?

Also, how do I know that you aren't paid by some person/corporation/entity for making your comments?

I post with my real name on HN; I'm quite sure there is no living person with the first name "Cold" and the last name "Tea", although, I have been surprised in the past with names that I thought were real that weren't, and vice-versa.

Now, I did mean what I said, that is, after having read your comments, I said that you are highly, highly intelligent.

Your intelligence is not in question; but if you want me to accept your statistics (and the implications of them) then the burden of proof is solely on you.

OK, we're done.

Hopefully I have not offended you in any way; if I have, you have my sincere apologies.