Against the advice of the W.H.O., a series of politicians have been imposing endless lockdowns on “their” populations. Such pseudo-incarcerations are always deemed to be “based on data & science” but, in fact, they’re not. Rather, they’re arbitrary, highly political, and are clearly destroying the livelihoods of large numbers of private sector workers.
How did this all get started? The idea of lockdowns and social distancing came about from the 2004 science project of a 14 year old girl in Albuquerque named Laura Glass, daughter of Robert J. Glass, a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Together, father & daughter and two others published Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza in 2006. This was then championed in federal government circles in 2006-2007 by Dr. Carl Mecher, a Department of Veterans Affairs physician and by February 2007 this approach became official U.S. policy.
While the science behind this paper is arguably sound, it does not take into account the human cost of never-ending lockdowns. The furthest they go is as follows:
Implementation of social distancing strategies is challenging. They likely must be imposed for the duration of the local epidemic and possibly until a strain-specific vaccine is developed and distributed. If compliance with the strategy is high over this period, an epidemic within a community can be averted. However, if neighboring communities do not also use these interventions, infected neighbors will continue to introduce influenza and prolong the local epidemic, albeit at a depressed level more easily accommodated by healthcare systems.
Even Dr. Mecher had some reservations about applying the lockdown and social distancing policy this year:
Dr. Mecher was a key voice on the “Red Dawn” email chain of public health experts in raising early warnings this year about the coronavirus outbreak and Mr. Trump’s reluctance to embrace shutdowns and social distancing. The shutdown this year is much bigger than Dr. Mecher and others imagined would be necessary or practical. Testing has been limited and some states issued social distancing orders even before confirming the coronavirus was spreading within their borders.
Dr. Markel called it “very gratifying to see our work used to help save lives.” But, he added, “it is also horrifying.”
“We always knew this would be applied in worst-case scenarios,” he said. “Even when you are working on dystopian concepts, you always hope it will never be used.”
It’s too bad that most politicians who have imposed lockdowns and social distancing have been oblivious to the grave human and societal costs of this disastrous policy.
The whole idea of lockdowns, and what gets locked down, is based upon amateurish thinking. Well, the virus is spread amongst people so stop people mixing and crowding and reduce the spread.
However, most of the Western deaths come from people who never went to bars, restaurants or football games.
Robert, the people least mobile, those in long term care facilities are the ones dying, except for 166, who were out in the real world. Politicians are idiots who are afraid of making a mistake , and loosing favour. How many “cuckservative politicians have now proven to be liberal lite?
To partially paraphrase Kate:
‘We went from flattening the curve to flattening the country so fast we didn’t even notice.’
How did this all get started?
After they told us it would only take two weeks to flatten the curve.
After they told us income tax was a temporary measure to finance WW1.
After they told us the Charter of Rights wouldn’t turn our higher courts over to judicial activism.
After they told us we could speak French or just shut up.
After they told us we had to pay higher taxes because China was causing climate change.
After they told us the Chinese were just like us and their leadership was benevolent as we bought their wind turbines.
After they told us municipal and provincial government wasn’t enough, so we need “regional government.”
After Bill Clinton told Americans they just wanted a little bit more tax. Right after the Clintons pillaged the treasury.
After they assured us masks actually worked when they don’t except as cross-contaminators.
After they didn’t tell us they dropped the ball and their inaction meant we never acquired herd immunity over the summer.
After they told us the governance and finance of the nation did not matter, just views on gender and gay marriage.
Right after they told US Joe Biden saved America with his covid plan, except for the Trump measures and vaccine, so masking.
Now that they’re telling us centrists who believe in strong but limited government, in a resilient and independent work ethic supporting a compassionate society, people left to fail or succeed on their own merits, not by government edict – are fascists
They dislike rubes and rednecks, noting those cuckservatives are so intolerant. Your identity is now your authoritative destiny.
Now they tell us that’s not actually racism, but combatting racism, especially those “moderate” white male racist fascists.
Now that means only they’re qualified to govern; they can lie to you as their neo regency court jesters ignore contrary news.
Welcome to Build it Back Better cronyism.
Stop making seance.
Or we will ground you.
PCR Testing is a fraud. Governments are the new TERRORISTS. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509163-covid-19-test-flawed-withdrawn/
Repost from another thread as it applies here:
Maurice Strong laid it out years ago – Covid is the “incentive”
The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) met in 1992 in Rio Janeiro. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change was formed at that time. A major power broker and organizer behind the UN global warming agenda in Rio was the Canadian Maurice Strong.
“What if it were concluded, Strong romanticized, “that the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? … Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”
“What we really need are massive incentives for the right kind of behaviour,” Strong explained at one seminar to an audience of roughly 400. “Economic incentives, but also moral incentives, ethical incentives, psychological incentives . . . fear.”
The media whip up a panic and the sheep, er people, bleat to the government to ‘do something’. So the politicians do something. There are plenty of examples of these same hypocritical politicians ignoring and breaking their own regulations, so it’s obvious that they themselves don’t really believe in the purpose or effectiveness of the rules.
The rules are merely for political expedience, not public safety.
The spineless politicians are doing this on the behest of the unelected and unaccountable senior civil servants. Too many bureaucrats are incompetent in life and this is another example of their incompetence. Mr. Kenny needs to grow a pair and tell them to back off.
I bet the bureaus thought it was a real great place to park the insane and incompetent bureaucrats..
Public Health?
Pandemic Section?
Perfect,we will never have another one of those.
Government is the Plandemic.
Without their complete screeching freakout,us dummies would never even have know we were suffering.
The survival rate is better than some flues and way better than SARs,yep we were stampeded with a litany of lies,which Shamrock lists beautifully.
Without the peaking and freaking of bureaucrats and media,there is no Novel Corona Virus Pandemic.
And as ever more people are tested,proclaimed infected with the Dread Covid 19,while suffering having no symptoms,no illness,no nothing…
But this is a “novel” virus for which the herd has no immunity?
So how can we have so many infected but immune persons ?
Where are the mass graves?
Where has the social order collapsed through the death and illness of essential workers?
Where has Covid 19 demonstrated the characteristics of a historical pandemic?
And now the vaccine ???
A 94% effective vaccine against a 98% survivable disease..
Strikes me that just normal side effects from the novel vaccines will kill more than exposure to the Dread Covid.
Governments are the New TERRORISTS.
The Politicans should be fired and sent to prison for mandating lockdowns. See this sad interview aired on Wednesday evening from FNC’s Laura Ingraham and a man who recounts a tragedy in his family recently. This Father speaks out against lockdowns after son commits suicide.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6215314313001#sp=show-clips
In Winnipeg, 1918-1919, lock-downs, curfews and masks were implemented. 1 in 3 were infected over 1600 (Wpg population was 188,00), died. the after action results published in 1921-1922 decried the lock-downs, masks and curfews. the medical experts felt then that they were not effective and had likely contributed to the problem. Main cause of death in Winnipeg during the Spanish flu? Viral pneumonia, not the flu. 2/3rds of the dead were men and women over 20, under 50.
So, today, other than who is dying, not much has changed.
Melinda Gates admits they never gave much thought to the impacts economically on people. So sick of the elite bastards who think we are cattle to be handled like livestock.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/melinda-gates-admits-we-hadnt-really-thought-through-economic-impacts