1- Maintaining an elevated level of fear, depression, distrust and anger among American citizens - Part 1. Mandated masking and compelled isolation of healthy people throughout much of the country continues to be a powerful visual reminder that our country is sick; that we're all just one sneeze, one cough or one spit droplet away from certain death!
2-Maintaining an elevated level of fear, depression, distrust and anger among American citizens - Part 2. Conflating a "positive" test result -- as questionable and unreliable as such testing has been demonstrated to be -- with being actually being sick. Combined with creative manipulation of the virus cases/deaths statistics -- "if you torture the numbers enough they will confess -- has driven many Americans literally out of their rational minds and into a fearful state of abject cowardice.
You are so correct. It is a crime against humanity what this has done to people.
I know a lady, several years older than me, who is technically “elderly” but doesn’t seems so. She goes out to eat by herself, meets with those friends who aren’t afraid to meet, won’t get the vax etc.
She helps out a woman several years older than she is, a woman who hasn’t gone out since this whole thing started.
I’ve met this other woman. I went to the store with them a couple years ago. I had to chase her down to tell her I had spotted something she was looking for. I had to hoof it because she was moving through the aisles so fast.
Now she can hardly walk at all because her arthritis has gotten so bad since she hasn’t been getting out for exercise.