It's a lot easier to impose draconian mitigation measures in a communist dictatorship. They were welding people's doors shut so they could control traffic on and out of apartment buildings.
But voluntary isolation, voluntary quarantine, and treating all public spaces as if they carried equal risk had enormous cost and zero benefit. It was foolish and wasteful, and the people responsible for our ineffective and harmful policy should be held to account.
We had no idea what the actual risk was initially. To a large extent, we still don't. And of course there was the politics. Politics tainted every aspect of our response-another problem not found in a communist dictatorship. They wanted the economy to crash. They wanted dead Americans. They wanted Trump to fail. This was their agenda throughout 2020. It tainted everything.
“We had no idea what the actual risk was initially. To a large extent, we still don’t. And of course there was the politics. Politics tainted every aspect of our response-another problem not found in a communist dictatorship. They wanted the economy to crash. They wanted dead Americans. They wanted Trump to fail. This was their agenda throughout 2020. It tainted everything.”
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They knew that, however brutal or repulsive the downstream consequences might be of their chosen course of action in 2020, by 2021 with the executive branch in hand they would be able to jam anything that tends to portray their 2020 role in any kind of negative light straight down the memory hole, furiously start to rewrite history in such a way as to blame their political enemies and assure them total impunity, and resume going forward with full stream to implement the atheistic, nihilistic, eugenicistic, satanic, marxist, Cloward-Piven, Saul Alinsky, deep state one-world-government policy nirvana 0bama and his friends and all of their nameless, faceless backers and puppetmasters have been dreaming about for decades.