[Jim Noble]

I’m a COVID doctor and a casual observer of COVID sociology.

A lot of positions people take are premised on “the relatively minor effects of Covid”.

How minor you think COVID is depends on your answer to “relative to what?”

When I talk about COVID policy, I often say, “If this was Ebola (or smallpox), we wouldn’t be having this discussion”. It’s true COVID is not an extinction-level event. It’s not Ebola. It’s not smallpox.

But it is bad, worse than seasonal influenza, and it’s not even close. If our politics was not as bad as it is, and the authorities had not performed so badly, this would still be a major event and would have influenced people’s behavior in ways flu or other seasonal illnesses never did.

[fr_freak]

But [COVID] is bad, worse than seasonal influenza, and it’s not even close.

In the two years since all this nonsense started, I have seen NOTHING to indicate that this is true.

[MtnClimber]

I agree, but if our bureaucrats had not funded the gain of function research it probably would never have happened.

I know COVID can be very serious, but this is why I think it was handled the way it was:

1. The pandemic is to force you to get the vaccine

2. The vaccine is to force you to get the vaccine passport

3. The vaccine passport is to push you into the social credit system

4. The social credit system is to force you into obeying the government

Emerald Robinson, 2021

So, I think many of the "lockdown politicians" don't care much about the lives lost or the health that is damaged by COVID. They care about amassing their own power most of all.