These shutdowns are the largest government attack on private prosperity and societal mental health in human history.
Given that this disease presents nearly zero danger to those under 55, nearly everything which has been imposed on us has been completely unnecessary. Nobody needed to tell the sickly and infirm to stay home, and the only two viable paths out of this were and remain Herd Immunity–which is to say the young and healthy getting this thing in large enough numbers that it stops circulating–or a viable vaccine.
There are three major red flags with the vaccine approach:
1) No vaccine has ever been created for ANY Coronavirus, despite the fact that four of them cause the common cold, and much effort has been expended across many decades curing–or preventing–the common cold.
2) No safe vaccine has ever been created in less than five years or so, and that is really, really fast. Most of them have taken 10-15 years. There are a host of potential side effects which can take years to manifest. By and large, for anyone who is healthy under 60-65 it would almost certainly be safer getting injected under supervision with the virus itself until 2024 or so.
3) Even where relatively safe vaccines have been created for viruses, they are only partially effective, and have to changed continually. The flu vaccine is the most obvious example. It is perhaps 40% effective in a good year, which means that it either does nothing for 60% of the people, or–worse, obviously–MAKES THEM SICK. I know many, many people who only get the flu when they get the vaccine, all of them in the military, since once they are out, they stop taking those damned shots.
Nobody in this country seems to be thinking clearly about this whole thing. We are driving people into food banks, ruining people who have been sober for a long time, pushing people into suicide and drug overdoses, shortening the lives of our elderly through loneliness and depression and anxiety, and doing all this with NO PLAN AT ALL.
And let’s not forget all the people who are going to be evicted for not paying rent or foreclosed on for not paying morgages, that they can’t pay because they can’t work because their local autocrats (usually Democrats) WILL NOT LET THEM WORK.
And many people who are making their rent somehow can’t pay their power bills. I said from the outset that the black community as a whole is being hurt vastly more by the lockdowns than by anything their local PD is or is not doing. That is a distraction. What is the reality is closed, empty hotels downtown, boards over nearly everything, few people on the sidewalk even at noon, and perhaps hundreds of businesses that will never reopen, and never again employ ANYONE.
Slowing the spread is not a plan. It is a talking point. A propaganda meme, which appeases those who have responded as desired to the fear porn, but it is not a plan. Protecting hospital capacity is a plan, but that plan was accomplished back in April.
Otherwise, epidemics come in Bell Curves, which means they start slow, increase rapidly, peak, then diminish. We can thank the Chinese for gifting us this thing, most likely, in perpetuity, but here is the kicker: TOTAL MORTALITY IN MOST OF THE WORLD IS NOT UP. We do not have more total people dying. The people who are “dying of COVID-19” (we are told) would have died in any other year of the flu, of a stroke, of pneumonia, of a heart attack, or of some other viral infection.
This whole thing is mass madness or, as one California based child psychiatrist termed it “delusional psychosis.”
There is no question voting Trump is the only way this disaster does not get worse, very fast, and last for a very, very long time. I think most analysts think if Joe Biden gets elected, we are looking at a full blown 1930’s style Depression, which is COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY.