Most Governors seem to be getting away with calling the normal effects of easing lockdowns problematic. Farr’s Law says the only way through a pandemic is for 60-70% of the people in the population to get the disease, or at least be exposed to it. If the population is healthy, then you can get through it easily. If it is unhealthy–as happened in 1918–then many of those exposed also die.
But regardless, THIS IS HOW HUMANITY HAS GOTTEN THROUGH EVERY PANDEMIC IN HISTORY.
To be sure, we learned to prevent some, such as measles and tuberculosis, through vaccination, but when the thing is raging, the fastest way out is through. The science is very clear, as far as I can tell, and no qualified epidemiologist can, in my view, be unfamiliar with this FACT.
But our Governors keep extending their draconian limitations on our freedom every time it becomes obvious that we are moving towards Herd Immunity, which is to say the cessation both of the disease, and the increasingly flimsy justifications for the assaults on our liberty and emotional and economic health.
Look up the death rate in your State, in normal times. Use, say, 2015 as a benchmark.
If you see what I am seeing, then the disease is causing much less than 10% of the deaths which would be expected in any month in any normal year.
To state the obvious–which is seemingly necessary any more–that level of death does not come CLOSE to justifying the measures being taken.
If the cause of freedom and goodness wins, then this will in very little time come to be seen as the largest public policy disaster in modern times. It is worse, in many respects, than the Great Depression. I suspect more people will die of preventable causes, globally.
And as I’ve said, the casualties of Communism–with the WHO being run by and for Communists–could DOUBLE in a few months. That is no easy feat to achieve, and that level of evil is impossible for psychologically normal people to fathom, particularly when the purpose is putting humanity under the jackboot of psychopaths.