Just to be clear, of course, lockdowns decrease the fatality rate from COVID-19, just like they would do so with the flu or any other infectious disease. You could decrease flu deaths every year by keeping society locked down. You could also cut down on the huge number of motor vehicle accidents each year. In the United States alone about 32,000 people are killed, and 2 million injured, from car crashes every year.
But we don’t shut society down to prevent car crashes, or the annual flu, because the overall costs to individuals and society as a whole would far outweigh the benefits of doing so.
Epidemiologists are concerned only with how to prevent or limit the spread of an infectious disease. They are not qualified, or concerned with, assessing the overall costs to society of a lockdown.
The purpose of democracy is to allow individuals to make their own decisions, based on their own judgments, about the best course of action for themselves and their families. If you give up on people to make that sort of decision, especially in times of crisis, you have given up on the entire idea of democracy.
The results of the lockdown are as follows:
*In less developed countries, where many people live hand to mouth and governments can’t afford massive aid, and food chains have been shut down, many people will starve to death.
*In developed countries, the deaths from heart disease will skyrocket, and heart disease is a far greater killer than the virus.
*Economies around the globe have been shut down, with literally hundreds of millions of people becoming unemployed.
*In the US, politicians, facing an election year, have enacted staggering stimulus programs – over $200,000,000 for every single death in the US, and this includes only the first stimulus program and none of the actions of the Fed to increase liquidity in financial markets. These programs will saddle future generations with debts that are impossible to pay.
*The massive amounts of handouts will completely corrupt the small business system, as corruption and fraud will be far more profitable than actually trying to restart businesses.
*Hundreds of millions of children around the globe will be denied a complete education.
*Dramatic increases in domestic violence and Divorce.
*Perhaps most importantly, the lockdown shows the complete failure of educational systems to ingrain reasoning skills, to analyze information within a context, and not to have judgments skewed by sensationalized news reports. The vast majority of people support the lockdowns, and that is a sad commentary on the ability of power-hungry politicians and the media to sway public opinion.
*Around the world, we’ve been shown how vulnerable democratic institutions really are. People have been imprisoned like animals, massively, all in the name of an “emergency”. Where did leaders of the democratic world take their lead on how to handle the crisis? From Communist China, a ruthless dictatorship that allows no challenge to authority at all.
* We’ve also been shown how weak non-governmental institutions really are, even in “advanced democracies” like the US. There has been no real challenge to the government mounted by lawyers or non-profit institutions.
*Everyone has meekly submitted. Democracy has lost the great battle, at the first big test of a new century. Now that politicians and big media realize how much they can get away with without being challenged, they hold the whip hand. Democracy won’t recover.
*Social Media and all forms of modern media have how shown they have an ability to transmit fear, but not really help or solutions, as people chose the crudest possible path; huddling by themselves, shutting down, and avoiding all contact with other people.
*Human beings have shown themselves for what, at root, they really are; a great mass of organisms unwilling or unable to think for themselves, following whatever leader screams the loudest and offers the easiest, crudest solutions. Really, like dumb animals, but without any of the dignity or beauty of animals in the wild.
This is no justication for sweeping government policies, lacking any and all nuance, that destroy the lives, jobs, and businesses of Americans. Anyone who supports lockdown has been the victim of mind control. Your fear has been used to control you with many begging to be locked down. It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’s been fooled. Being alive is not the same as living. Life without meaning or quality is worthless. Living means taking risks. Let’s open this country and get to living again. I’m tired of just being alive. The pandemic is serious, but the response is wrong; you don’t save lives by treating the whole world as a prison, and you don’t win a war by imprisoning your own troops.
The mainstream media is, as usual, united in bringing everyone a single point of view; that a total world lockdown is vital, at any cost to freedom, personal choice, and the economy. We think there’s room for a different point of view, and we want to make sure those other points of view are known. In some cases, we’ll link to sites we’ve created, and sometimes to those of total strangers; whatever gets the point across. Our main point is that the costs of a lockdown have to be considered as well as the benefits. Will the lockdown save some lives? Yes. But at a horrendous cost.
Protect senior and people with pre-existing conditions -have them isolate from the rest of the population. Allow young and healthy people to live normally and get infected to develop herd immunity in the population. Shutting down country is inept government.
Anyone that says the people that are not isolating will make it last longer is lying. The virus will last to one of two things happens : have a vaccine (10 years later still no Sars vaccine) reach herd immunity. There is no other way out!
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