if any one of the fear mongers on this board can read this article and actually still say there was ever a reason to lock down then they are hopeless and should go to daily kos
I would ping a couple of them, but this time of the morning they are still busy making more masks out of t-shirts and polishing their goggles so they can stay safe while driving their cars alone.
Well, I don't know about the "fear mongers", but there were quite a few people who just made their observations based on reality - you have not been one of them. Many people have "chronic illnesses" and most of them live many years - even many decades - with them, that died far sooner because of this virus. Those chronic illnesses don't lead to hospitals being overwhelmed that they simply have to leave some people to die, numerous medical staff dying including over 100 doctors, mortuaries being overwhelmed, so many dead bodies they need to call in the military for assistance, etc. All of that happened - and it didn't happen due to "chronic illnesses" - it happened because of COVID19. It's called reality. It's called facts. Sometimes facts and reality are bad - even really bad - that doesn't change the reality that it exists.
Based on the information we had at the time, that being that the very people who developed this biological warfare agent totally freaked out when it was detected outside the confines of the lab that developed it, there was every reason to err on the side of caution.
The prudent thing was to lock down and sort out the actual facts, knowing the people who were withholding the facts shut down a city of 11 million, killed their own economy, welded people into their thousand unit apartment buildings, lied to the rest of the world while sending flights world-wide, but not to anywhere within in China from Wuhan, tried to suck up all the world's PPE, kept the steel mills running in Wuhan as expedient crematoria, while bringing in forty (40!) industrial incinerators to dispose of "medical waste"?
They KNEW, the instant it was detected outside the lab that developed it, just how deadly it was designed to be, that's who!
And in China, it apparently really was that deadly. Some 21 million Chinese disappeared in the first few months.
Fortunately, like a Harbor Freight tool, it quickly lost its edge...
Once we had realistic actual data, i.e. mostly harmless to people under 65, mostly harmless even to them in the absence of co-morbidities that universal lock down ceased to make medical sense, and should have been discontinued.
The blue state governors are frantically keeping the hysteria up because holding your breath until you turn blue beats orange.
It's a political necessity, a literal matter of life and death-by-hanging to traitors, not a medical necessity.
Still think I belong on the Daily KOS?