I am not a specialist in anything, I have always chosen to know as much as possible of as many fields possible and therefore I know a bit about many things, but never a lot about any single subject. But I am a curious George who always tries to get to know as much he can on issues that seem to matter.

Since the covid crisis started, I was always impressed with the numbers: not many people seem to be affected by this disease and although I appreciate the fact that numbers are influenced by the measures that were taken, it still seems like we have exaggerated our response. Mortality was raised by about 1 pro mille point, from around 10 to 11 pro mille, sure. But really, does that justify closing down entire societies? It seems not. In fact Sweden shows numbers that are around the average among all other nations that did put draconic restrictions on their people.

The biggest problem though is our current culture and mentality: the people who were trying to fight the direction politicians took didn’t try to reason through their points of view, but started to make up fallacies to bring home their goals: covid doesn’t exist, it’s just a flue, the numbers are lies, the vaccines are trojan horses, the establishment are taking control of us with a huge reset. All these ridiculous assumptions and campaigns have made it impossible to fight the actual problems with the treatment of the crisis: that the cure is worse than the illness – in total.

People refuse to reason within limited fields these days: if any single fact within the scope of argument is not in line with what one wants it to be, we easily escape those limits and start reasoning without context, making the result totally worthless. And the opponents then attack these views based on the incompetence in argument rather than for the essential questions and opinions that lead to the argument.

Since the start I feel we exaggerate our assessment of the disease, even though it kills a lot of vulnerable people. We should go back to a normal relationship with this disease and, frankly, any disease. We are not immortal, as much as some would love to be, and one day we will die for one reason or another. I think most old people would rather see their family and friends and die some years early, than to live many years deprived of a social life. I think it’s more important to live, than to fear death. Memento mori? No thanks. Carpe diem? Yes please.