November 11, 2021
The Sissy Generation
By Andrew Gorlin
Just 70-80 years ago we had what was dubbed “The Greatest Generation” – the people who had fought and won World War II. Now, just a couple of generations down the road, we have unconditionally surrendered to a disease with miniscule mortality (for the vast majority of population), and which is to a large degree treatable. How did that happen?
Roll back to the first months of 2020, when we just learned about the sinister new virus which was killing people and for which we had neither vaccine, nor cure. We were scared – in the 21st century we don't expect to encounter something to which our medicine has no answer. A lot of things about COVID-19 were unknown at the time, but one of the first confirmed pieces of information was that this virus spares children.
What a great news! Whatever calamity befalls us, children are always our main concern. Now, when we know that they are safe, shouldn't we, adults, breathe a big sigh of relief, return to normal life and let the doctors do what they always do: treat the sick, research for cure, work on the vaccine? I can imagine that this would have happened a few decades ago, despite the (incorrect) perception that the mortality rate was maybe small, but still meaningful, a few percentage points. Yet the only developed country that behaved more or less like that was Sweden. The rest of the mankind locked themselves up and essentially stopped living normal lives.
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