It occurs to me that one could draw a strong correlation between the textbook way to manage an economic downturn–do nothing, and it will sort itself out quickly–and the traditional means of managing epidemics, which is letting them run, and letting those who want to stay home do so.
In the same way that first Herbert Hoover and then FDR expanded and extended what could and should have been a short term downturn, we are extending and expanding this pandemic.
Here is the thing: immunity seems to last only a few months. Then you, possibly, can get it again. This means that if you want to KILL the thing, at least for the time being, everyone needs to get exposed to it in roughly a three month period. It may come back, but the same logic still applies. And this will be true even with the vaccines, if it is true that immunity is short lived. In my view, these “vaccines” were developed so fast since they are probably just injecting us with a small quantity of the actual virus. I believe I posted on this a month or two ago.
And self evidently, INTELLIGENT policy would be preaching continually the virtues of good health, which would apply to all areas of all people’s lives. Do you smoke? Now would be a good time to stop. Are you fat? Now would be a good time to lose weight. Do you exercise? Now would be a good time to start.
Make sure you take at least the RDA of Vitamin D every day, and keep a stash of zinc and Vitamin C ready in case you do get a sniffle. And understand the sniffle could well be COVID. In my view, you are either sick or not sick, and if you are not sick, you are never, ever contagious. But you can be a LITTLE sick, and these are the superspreaders, I think. They have been told this thing is a vast gargantuan horrific giant of a disease, something that knocks you on your ass and then the hospital. So if they are already asthmatic and get a bit more wheezy they assume that can’t be it. If they have some sniffles and a mild sore throat they figure that can’t be it. If they have allergies and it feels like allergies, they figure that can’t be it. And if they wear masks, they figure in any event they can’t infect anyone. This is one obvious reasons why masks most likely make things worse. People meet and talk and even if they ARE a little sick they figure the masks makes everything better. It doesn’t. Flea through a chain link fence.
I have personally talked to at least five men–yes, there is likely some sexual selection here–who refused to believe they had COVID until they were seriously ill, or they got tested on the back end of the disease. Actually, there was one woman too, who thought she had allergies, until she got tested because her daughter tested positive.
And a good case could be made for government sponsored gym memberships, and public saunas. You get more good health than you risk transmission, and again healthy people will have almost no complications.
These are all the things a truly liberal, truly fair, truly honest, truly caring government would do, ideally deployed in infinite diversity at the local level, within intelligent broad parameters set by national experts acting in good faith.
That is self evidently the OPPOSITE of what is happening. We are being lied to, and our misfortune is being used to rob us of civil liberties. We are also seeing active and utterly disgusting censorship and efforts at narrative control that are utterly antithetical to our heritage of robust and free public dialogue.