Lakeshark wrote: “I also said the reaction from authorities was worse than the cure. Which is absolutely true.”
First of all, i have admitted that, in hindsight, many of our reactions to the virus were wrong. see post #54.
Second, if it was as readily obvious that the virus was not the threat it was made out to be, then why do you think our health care establishment and our politicians reacted the way they did?
why do you think our health care establishment and our politicians reacted the way they did?
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Politicians are the trash of society. Your writing suggests you don’t know that. Why would the trash of society have any special knowledge others don’t?
A good question. My take is it was a multi-pronged reaction.
The early news was so horrific (and, I believe, slanted unintentionally) that a response had to happen.
I also think our wonderful democrat/media complex tried to use the crisis to forward their authoritarian goals, plus their Trump derangement syndrome needed to cast it as his fault. The democrat governors wanted the economy to tank, Trump to fail, so they could take over. They never let a good crisis go to waste.
Then there is the group mass hysteria theory, which has a lot of merit. People simply did crazy things in a crazy time. It became far worse as a result.
I do know the dems used the mass hysteria to steal an election, so there is that too.
These things together and likely a few others to boot.