I don't know if this virus escaped from a Wuhan, China lab or whether it was intentional or a mistake. I don't even know if this originated in China. I don't know why more pressure from world leaders isn't being placed on China to figure this out, unless they already know the answer?
I don't know if I've already been infected or not. I don't know if antibodies give me any protection from another infection or how long that protection lasts. I don't know if I can trust the news stories that say the infection causes damage to vital organs, whether temporary or permanent. I know my dad has many health issues, apparently tested positive for the virus in a long term care facility, developed pneumonia, survived and said he feels as good today as he did before the virus. I have a very large extended family, some that live in the most affected areas of the country, and he's the only one that apparently got the virus. That goes for relatives in Italy, too.
I know that governments and major media outlets around the world are going out of their way to mislead/deceive the public, including here in Montreal, Quebec and Canada. What I don't know is why. As the relevant numbers go down the fearmongering goes up which makes no sense at all.
I know that dissenting opinions are being censored from social media platforms which is worrisome knowing that access to information is all it takes to shoot down wrong/baseless opinions. Are we being deprived access to basic and/or important information. If so, why?
I know the death toll is inaccurate, I just don't know by what degree.
I know the testing accuracy varies wildly from country to country, but I don't know how bad it really is. I know numbers here are inflated by assuming everyone else in a household with a positive case is already positive too, even though there's no way of knowing for sure if that one positive case was false or not.
I know there are dozens of mayors from some of the largest cities around the world placed on a "Global Covid-19 Task Force" that seem much more interested in creating a "new normal" much more focused on addressing climate change than our health or economic well-being. Is this pandemic just a timely coincidence for them? Their #1 point: "
1. The recovery should not be a return to ‘business as usual’ - because that is a world on track for 3°C or more of over-heating."
I know a University of Pittsburgh medical researcher described as being "on the verge of making very significant findings" about the virus was shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide and it received far, far less attention than the murder of a man in the state of Georgia. I don't know why. A racially-motivated murder is more attention-worthy than one regarding significant findings about a virus that shut down the entire world for months?
There's a lot I don't know that I wish I did.
