[enumerated]

I have no idea how many times I’ve had covid, if any, because the symptoms are too similar to too many other possible ailments - so I have never been sufficiently concerned to bother getting tested.

And even if I did get tested, I don’t know if I could trust the results, because apparently there are many factors that can lead to false positives or false negatives - including timing of the test relative to the infection, timing of the test relative to the vaccine, presence of a similar coronavirus, such as a cold virus, or simply the limitations of the test methodology.

I think if we had never been told about this virus, and no one had taken any countermeasures, we would have been a lot better off, and overall annual hospitalizations and mortality rates would have been well within the normal range.

But without a crisis, there is no excuse for the state to control everything.

Therefore, it was made into a crisis.

[Freee-dame]

Bingo! You are entirely correct. After those first five weeks of “flattening the curve” and “slowing the spread”, we should have protected the vulnerable who could not protect themselves and fully informed the public about the risk factors. Full information should have included telling people how many amplification cycles were needed in their PCR test to get a positive reading and which comorbidities were the most problematic and then letting adults make their own risk decisions as they do for everything else.

I believe the entire thing would’ve been over by the summer of 2020 when the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths went way down. During the Obama administration there was a pandemic. When summer came Obama ordered that testing be stopped. There continued to be flu and pneumonia hospitalizations and deaths during that pandemic, unlike in 2020