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yiddeshekup101:
Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.
Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”
The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”
The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
So for those whose lives are saved (or at least they are currently not critical) because they got the first wave of the virus as opposed to their life being in danger due to the third wave, it made a difference to that person that they were exposed to the virus. And for those that lost their lives unfortunately, due to them or others not being careful to follow the rules, it made a difference to them. It is a moral dilemma being that if the OP theory is correct, then peoples lives may have been saved as well.
I do not disagree with you that if people would have been more vigilant, there are lives that possibly would not have been lost. It is is tragedy and so perhaps I should have used the words that it worked in our favor. But I also think that possibly has a positive side to it, which was and is important too.