[Trayderjoe]

Fear is such a powerful tool, especially in the hands of those who wield it for their agenda. Again, mortality rate of Covid is very low and the identified pathways of transmission have been narrowed considerably since the pandemic started. This is not the first pandemic we have seen, the H1N1 flu was identified as a global pandemic by the WHO in early 2009, the US finally "recognized" the pandemic 6 months later. In one year, the CDC estimated that there were 60.8 million cases of H1N1 in the US alone.

How many have heard that sometimes the cure is worse than the disease? The problem with lockdowns (segregation), which by the way, the WHO now claims are bad in response to the Covid pandemic, is that the main factor being considered is reducing the transmission rate of a virus. A virus by the way, that is not as deadly as the fearmongers have made it out to be. Make no mistake, Covid is not a hoax, but it is not as deadly as a hemorrhagic fever. When you look at the whole, lockdowns (segregation) impact people on multiple socio-economic levels, such as mental health, that aren't weighed in when lockdowns are enacted. Note that the CDC shielding approach identified mental health issues that would need to be considered with segregation, yet I don't recall there being readily available mental health professionals to help those in crisis-heck, we can't even deal with the pre-Covid suicide rate when things were "normal".

So in order to temporarily reduce transmission of Covid, businesses are lost, jobs are lost, people can't provide for their families and there is a severe negative impact to children during critical development years. Consider that Europe has more severe lockdowns and yet are experiencing more outbreaks, which alone should be evidence that the ancillary impacts of lockdowns are not worth the price of lockdowns. Yet still there are those who insist on lockdowns, and most of the supporters of lockdowns don't have to worry about their jobs or income being impacted.

I wonder if there was a mandate that those who decide to lockdown must lose their jobs (with no guarantees they would get their jobs back) and no income until the lockdowns end, would those same people (and this includes people not in politics such as the news media) continue to support their position?