Great article. It’s a tragedy that public health officials and politicians didn’t learn from the Ebola experience, but rather simply chose to impose lockdowns and masks,. not on the basis of any scientific or medical evidence, but rather to simply demonstrate that they were actually doing something (even if that something was useless and counterproductive). In that regard it’s interest to note how fear mongering by the MSM in the US reiterated day after day how much worse the US was doing relative to other counties either in Europe or South East Asia, and yet the truth is that it wouldn’t have mattered what measures were taken, then end result would have been the same. And give or take the results in all Western countries have been essentially the same within “error”. In other words, Sweden with no lockdowns or masks, has fared neither better nor worse that the UK with lockdowns or masks; in the US states with lockdowns and/or mask mandates have fared no better than those without. Indeed, in the case of two neighboring states with virtually identical demographics and populations densities, namely North and South Dakota, the curves for daily deaths/million and daily cases/million are superimposable despite the fact that North Dakota had strict mask mandates while South Dakota imposed no restrictions of any sort.
The other tragedy is that the “15 days to slow the curve” is now 18 months plus to slow the curve, and the only impact has been to prolong the epidemic rather than get it over with. But I;’m sure our high and mighty public health officials who are so arrogant and sure of themselves will learn absolutely nothing from this whole episode.
Locked straight on to the “destroy trust between doctors and the public” bit. For the benefit of any scientist, public health official or member of a medical organization like the WHO who may be reading, I don’t believe a single word that’s coming out of your mouths anymore.
I have been walking around in an escalating towering rage the entire time. How could arbitrary civilians like us have been able to predict exactly what was going to happen a couple of months into the fiasco.
Great article. It’s a tragedy that public health officials and politicians didn’t learn from the Ebola experience, but rather simply chose to impose lockdowns and masks,. not on the basis of any scientific or medical evidence, but rather to simply demonstrate that they were actually doing something (even if that something was useless and counterproductive). In that regard it’s interest to note how fear mongering by the MSM in the US reiterated day after day how much worse the US was doing relative to other counties either in Europe or South East Asia, and yet the truth is that it wouldn’t have mattered what measures were taken, then end result would have been the same. And give or take the results in all Western countries have been essentially the same within “error”. In other words, Sweden with no lockdowns or masks, has fared neither better nor worse that the UK with lockdowns or masks; in the US states with lockdowns and/or mask mandates have fared no better than those without. Indeed, in the case of two neighboring states with virtually identical demographics and populations densities, namely North and South Dakota, the curves for daily deaths/million and daily cases/million are superimposable despite the fact that North Dakota had strict mask mandates while South Dakota imposed no restrictions of any sort.
The other tragedy is that the “15 days to slow the curve” is now 18 months plus to slow the curve, and the only impact has been to prolong the epidemic rather than get it over with. But I;’m sure our high and mighty public health officials who are so arrogant and sure of themselves will learn absolutely nothing from this whole episode.
Great comment
Locked straight on to the “destroy trust between doctors and the public” bit. For the benefit of any scientist, public health official or member of a medical organization like the WHO who may be reading, I don’t believe a single word that’s coming out of your mouths anymore.
I have been walking around in an escalating towering rage the entire time. How could arbitrary civilians like us have been able to predict exactly what was going to happen a couple of months into the fiasco.