COVID Shutdown
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14 days to "bend the curve" and prevent a caseload surge that would overwhelm our healthcare.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2020-04-26 |
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| The shutdowns were enacted as "14 days to flatten the curve", to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed (especially ventilators). | Once enacted the far left wouldn't let the shutdown end. Millions of jobs lost, suicides, depressions. Ventilators were shown as one of the worst ways to treat COVID, so the problem wasn't a lack of them, but abuse of them. Only after conservative places (Red States) ignored the lockdowns and outperformed the progressive places (Blue States), for months, and were called Neanderthals and murders, did the fascist left have to cave. Remember, without the liberty of conservatives ignoring progressives, we'd still be locked down: despite the science showing what a bad idea they were. |
Facts[edit | edit source]
- The shutdown was enacted under the guise that we needed was 14 days to "bend the curve" and prevent a caseload surge that would overwhelm our healthcare and have millions die waiting for ventilators.
- What we got was the stock market to drop 30%, GDP to drop 40%[1], Trillions in debt [2], and 30%+ unemployment (including healthcare worker laid off for lack of work)[3].
- The COVID Models were off by 4-10x or more, and we never neared capacity, even in the worst hit places. We had at least twice the ventilators per capita as Germany at the start and was surging manufacturing to have many times that in months. Oh, and ventilators turned out to be the worst way to treat it (with 80% dying anyways).
- As long as the economy was still alive and Trump might get re-elected, they are prepared to burn the whole economy down for their political ends: creating a dependency class of unemployed dependents is what they wanted all along.
- The most effective mitigation is the one that does the least harm, but keeps from destroying lives: the Swedish Model. The Shutdown does the most harm possible. Despite experts from top Universities saying End the Shutdown the anti-liberty left, doesn't care about the lives they're ruining.
If the COVID Shutdown worked, there would be cases where states or countries that didn't shutdown would outperform those that did. But the facts are there are many examples to the contrary:
- California shut down earlier and harder than Texas. California has more cases, more deaths, and a worse curve than Texas.
- In fact seven states never issues shut down orders at all: Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. All of them outperformed California or New York which had shutdowns.
- There are many countries that never did lockdowns: Belarus, Brazil (Roraima, Rondonia), Iceland, Japan, Latvia, Malawi, Tanzania, Nicaragua, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, Uruguay. Many of those countries well outperformed countries that did full lockdowns.
- There's even more evidence that some that did late lockdowns, or didn't lock down as hard, did NOT always under-perform those that did it earlier or harder.
More[edit | edit source]
- COVID Overreach - COVID gave the left the opportunity to first ignore it, then overreact, then use it as an excuse to seize power. Once they had power, they just couldn't give it up, admit a mistake, because virtue signaling. They exercised that power in a specious and obnoxious as possible.
- COVID Studies - Over a dozen Antibody tests (by April 2020) prove that we are completely being lied to about the denominator (how many total cases there are), which inflates the death rate and scares people unnecessarily. The continuing lockdown is anti-science, senseless, and done for a political agenda.
- End the Shutdown - There's a lot of people that just want to end the shutdown. Motivations vary: speeding herd immunity, not fearing the disease (looking at numbers of asymptomatic cases or death rates), just recognizing the harm to the economy, the questionable value over social distancing, or costs to people. Authoritarians don't care. Authority matters more than human rights.
- Flu Klux Klan - The progressive lens was the first to leap on authoritarian COVID shutdown/masks/vaccinations, and the last to consider the consequences. Some sincere, some want to hold the baby (economy) under water until the bubbles stop. The goal was to hurt Trump, create a dependency class, and achieve total state authority, under the false flag of saving people from COVID.
- Mills on COVID - Janet Mills handled COVID like any leftist asshat: she locked down the whole state (Maine) if any part showed a case -- not out of need or science, but as a show of solidarity at ruining the economy and hurting small business. This of course led to backlash and protests by businesses that didn't want to be destroyed, despite few cases of COVID.
- People will die - All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. ~ Blaise Pascal.
- Polarizing the shutdown - The left believes in (a) making rules is the same as convincing people to follow them (b) destroying the economy and blaming Trump for it. So naturally, they want the shutdown to go on as long as possible, and are furious when people disagree. In a diverse society, you're going to get a diversity of followers.
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
Living our lives in fear is not a life much worth living. Prior generations and many people lived with more risks/fears daily. And logically, right now, we need to increase the spread to keep the under-utilized hospitals from collapsing now (or risk a bigger second wave later). (Bending the curve was never trying to stop the disease, it was just preventing overwhelming hospitals). When California-sheeple (some of the most mindless collectivists in the nation) are starting to show up to beaches against orders, you know the governors overplayed their hand and didn’t persuade well. So the shut-down is ending, like it or not. The choice will soon be, shoot/murder the people in order to save them from a 1/1000 risk (that’ll teach them), or get over your own self-importance. Let’s figure out which policies help us live with it, instead of pretending the solution is to burn the house down to kill the spider.
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- https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-antibody-tests-proving-continuing-lockdown-senseless/
- https://nypost.com/2020/04/28/central-park-shows-just-how-over-fearful-of-coronavirus-weve-become/
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- ↑ GDP: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2020/04/09/jp-morgan-now-sees-40-plunge-in-gdp-unemployment-surge-to-20/#624f80b0436c
- ↑ Debt: https://www.wsj.com/video/the-37-trillion-corporate-debt-question/4A53E085-87DC-412B-8962-502411B34549.html
- ↑ Unemployment: https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-lockdown-claims-big-scalp-mayo-clinic-furloughs-cuts-pay-30000-employees-due-shutdown/
