Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Hardest Thing About This Lockdown May Be Admitting to Ourselves That It Accomplished Absolutely Nothing
RedState ^ | May 23, 2020 | Michael Thau

Posted on 05/23/2020 1:12:54 PM PDT by Michal T

This lockdown was senseless in every conceivable way. It was totally unnecessary, wouldn't have helped had it been, and completely unworkable regardless. Time to end it now and make sure nothing like this ever happens again.


TOPICS: Poetry; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; clickbait; lookatmeee; pandalovesthis; selfpromotion
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-94 next last
To: TexasGator

Thank you. The Constitution is not a cafeteria.


61 posted on 05/23/2020 2:30:14 PM PDT by firebrand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Michal T
The key to a good con trick is not that you trust the conman...but rather the conman shows that he trusts you... 😷🤧🤮
62 posted on 05/23/2020 2:32:20 PM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Michal T

My rants on this PlanDEMic have been called
“Monty Python Like”.

But the one thing I’ve seen that was more like Monty
Python than anything I’ve seen send the movie?

There is only one reason to send coronavirus patients to
nursing homes as far as I can see. Protecting seniors
should have been a priority and would have made sense to
NOT SEND CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS THERE!

But Cuomo saw his opportunity!

“You don’t have enough dead to bring out”!

“Here! Have some infected Corona Virus Patients,
so you can get your Python On!”

~Easy


63 posted on 05/23/2020 2:32:44 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MortMan

You are correct


64 posted on 05/23/2020 2:32:47 PM PDT by Mom MD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: kagnew

Faux has become, “If it bleeds it leads.”


65 posted on 05/23/2020 2:40:33 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: kagnew

Let me rephrase that...

Faux has become, “If it bleeds it leads...even if we have to stab it!”


66 posted on 05/23/2020 2:41:05 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: InterceptPoint

Helps? How? By delaying the spread that is going to happen anyway? Freedom needs protection!


67 posted on 05/23/2020 2:41:43 PM PDT by impimp
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: firebrand

“Aren’t you watching Dr. Birx’s charts?”

Why would I? I don’t care to get lied to.

Do your own research for the flu at: https://www.fludb.org/brc/home.spg?decorator=influenza

Do your own research of COVID-19 at: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/index.html


68 posted on 05/23/2020 2:42:13 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: ETCM

You can’t prove that because we didn’t do it that way and therefore it can’t be measured or the point proved.

What I know is that we were on fire here. Whenever there is a huge fire, more fire engines show up than have to. That is what you do when you are in charge and responsible for people’s lives.

The attacks on Birx and Fauci convinced me early on that there was an irrational fanaticism out there. The scarves, the height, the voice—anything had to be criticized in order to increase the negative feelings toward our health officials. They were our fire engines, and some did nothing but spit at them.


69 posted on 05/23/2020 2:43:10 PM PDT by firebrand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: InterceptPoint
It might be prudent to take a break from those masks now and then...

And the people that brought us Gun Control would like us to know...

But don't Dare Challenge the Corruptocrats on it...

~Easy

70 posted on 05/23/2020 2:51:39 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: firebrand

I fully agree with your post and people continue to spit on them.


71 posted on 05/23/2020 2:55:25 PM PDT by hawkaw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: Michal T

The lockdown brought the reproduction number down from about 2.5 to just barely below 1. Then, on the very day that USA reproduction number went below 1, the CDC changed the lockdown guidelines and started too send infected essential workers back to work. The purpose of these “studies” is to get you to go outside, get infected, and die.

https://epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/national/united-states/

The only weapon we had against this plague was the lockdown (other than convalescent plasma)

R is now greater than 1.

The doubling time has dropped from 49 days to now 34 days due to lifting of the lockdown.

To all conservatives: desire and lobby for the lockdown very very strongly, or 65% of this nation WILL be infected, and .0037 of the infected WILL die from COVID19.
Together that is 0.002405 of the USA or 793,650 people.

The only thing that can put it into decay is the lockdown, and once it is there, everyone post-sick needs to give convalesscent plasma. (the only medicine that really works right now and has the supply available to be real)


72 posted on 05/23/2020 3:00:39 PM PDT by FarRockaway2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Michal T

What I see is, between March 26th and April 15th, the death count started moving down. These dates of peaks death counts reflected COVID-19 mitigation efforts that started as early as March 9th in heavy hit Italy. What lockdown deniers fail to do is recognize what has happened in the rest of the world.


73 posted on 05/23/2020 3:00:42 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Laslo Fripp

After you have wrote off masks, take a deeeeeep breath and read this—all of it—from beginning to end. I suggest all of my mask nay-sayer FRiends read it too:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662657/


74 posted on 05/23/2020 3:11:50 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Impala64ssa

*chuckle*

A fitting musical interlude :)

And now I have to post this because of the break at 3:00 and Tortelvis’s response:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CO7FPU7a2g


75 posted on 05/23/2020 3:16:42 PM PDT by Yardstick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: jonrick46

Thanks for the study. From 2009. Some of us learned this back during the Avian Flu scare. Along with how a virus is transmitted, etc. At this stage of the game it seems that the stage is pretty well set with the masks on one side and the no-masks on the other.

Thankfully for most of us, the play is mostly over, except for the governors droning on and on.


76 posted on 05/23/2020 3:19:12 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: Michal T

It should never have happened

People bought the Panic Porn


77 posted on 05/23/2020 3:21:48 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Let's Roll
We didn't accomplish anything - they learned how easy it is to shut down the country.

All they have to do is say "it's for your safety" and the citizens roll over on their backs. When did Americans become such quivering and fearful sheep?

78 posted on 05/23/2020 3:22:40 PM PDT by Lizavetta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: RoosterRedux

On March 1st, I had this cough so bad that after the third day of couching, my abs felt as if I did 300 sit-ups. I know about how 300 sit ups feel, because that’s how many I did when my high school PE teacher held a contest on who could do the most sit-ups. I experienced each cough as if it was a punch in the gut. Between coughs, it was a sharp pain that lasted until the next cough. I imagined a wash-board stomach transformation after going through it. However, it was not the coronavirus. I can imagine how I would have felt if I did have the virus. If people think the coronavirus is no worse than the flu, the experience may not be like doing sit-ups, but the effects will have life long effects no typical flu or sit-ups will have:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/recovering-coronavirus-patient-talks-icu-experience-owe-life/story?id=70003513


79 posted on 05/23/2020 3:36:46 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: Michal T

“Time to end it now and make sure nothing like this ever happens again.”

Yep, time for a counterattack against the fascist deep state. We can begin by seizing 50% of the wealth of all government bureaucrats pushing the contrived lockdown and giving it to businesses that were harmed.

Then we go after the old leftist hags living off their dead husbands’ annuities who cheered for this fake lockdown.


80 posted on 05/23/2020 3:50:48 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-94 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson