Posted on 11/06/2022 8:58:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The claim is now everywhere:
We had to lock down because we just didn’t know about this virus.
It was all very confusing and we had to play it safe.
We had no other option because we just had no clarity about what we were dealing with.
The precautionary principle dictated the unprecedented actions.
Actually, the precautionary principle goes both directions.
It also dictates that we not enact policies that we know for sure would wreck lives and liberties. They did it anyway, without sufficient knowledge that the measures would achieve any positive good.
We approach the third year and people have forgotten that all the harms of lockdowns were strongly warned about by many voices in many venues. In addition, the virus was much better understood back then and openly discussed. We knew for certain that the panic and fear were being wildly overblown.
Below follows resources assembled by the ‘Robber Baron‘ and many others who write for the Brownstone Institute. These citations from newspapers, magazines, academic journals and interviews, with many respected voices, show that we certainly knew tremendous amounts in the early days.
All the warnings and information were readily available to anyone paying attention.
2019: WHO Global Influenza Programme recommends against lockdowns and masks
Sept 2019: Johns Hopkins pandemic preparedness study recommends against lockdowns
Jan 24: Doctor warns that mass quarantine won’t work and will devastate society
Feb 28: Fauci says this is more akin to flu than something more deadly
Mar 1: Sweden: No effective measure to let healthy school children stay at home
Mar 2: Discussion on how Covid IFR was likely much lower than predicted
Mar 2: 800 public health scientists warn against lockdowns, quartantines, restrictions
Mar 3: Berkeley doctor indicates masks are not helpful in preventing Covid
Mar 9: Article on how Covid is only really dangerous to the elderly
Mar 12: Chief medical officer saying people shouldn’t wear masks
Mar 13: Review found severe mental health problems from prolonged quarantine
Mar 15: Medical organisation says stopping elective surgeries is unnecessary and dangerous
Mar 17: Warning of financial crisis, unrest, civil strife, war, and a meltdown of the social fabric
Mar 25: Data about the health impacts of crushing the economy
Mar 26: Early evidence of hospitals inaccurately listing Covid as cause of death
Mar 28: Predictions about the harms of lockdowns: Drugs, Suicide, and Crime
Mar 28: Guardian outlines rise in domestic abuse throughout the world
Mar 30: Study showing children are not the primary spreader of Covid
Apr 1: Article saying masks offer little to no advantage outside of hospital settings
Apr 4: Warning of the harm in delaying non-Covid medical procedures
Apr 7: Study from China finds of 7,324 COVID-19 cases only two transmissions occurred outdoors
Apr 7: Piece on the mental health cost of the lockdown on kids
Apr 8: Research showing school lockdowns aren’t helpful and cause great harm
Apr 13: More confirmation about domestic abuse rising due to lockdowns
Apr 15: Different approaches by countries have little impact on Covid deaths
Apr 15: Molecular Biologist suggests the cure is worse than the disease
Apr 16: UN overview about the poverty/death that will come from lockdowns
Apr 20: Oxford professor says cases in U.K. peaked before lockdown
Apr 22: Potential for 60,000 cancer deaths due to lack of screening/treatment
Apr 23: The harm lockdowns are having on people with heart conditions
Apr 24: Study showing school closings are the least cost-effective pandemic policy
Apr 28: Increasing child abuse is a side effect of Covid lockdowns
Apr 30: Santa Clara seroprevalence study shows high prevalence
May 1: Indications from Europe that lockdowns are ineffective
We certainly live in an age of short attention span but many these signs and warnings came weeks or months before the world locked down and they chronicled the damage as it was happening.
Why all this came to be completely ignored remains the burning question.
Fear mongering at its finest.
Have a blessed day.
Danny,
Your post included this:
“To this day, the most respected US major medical organizations still recommended masks, and many freepers and anti-vaxers are vehemently against them. So what do we “know”?”
Your major concerts articles were dated after Houston canceled their Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Eagles canceled their Dallas show.
Your Tuscon article is dated January 2022, which is two years beyond the scope of this discussion of the early days.
-PJ
Correct.
“Two weeks to flatten the curve.” That will be known as “the lie told round the world”.
Most everyone I know was willing to make that little sacrifice on a GOOD-FAITH basis. And now the bastards want Covid Amnesty? Fat chance of that.
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They had a couple of players get Covid. They would have had plenty left to play games.
Even so, so what? My point is it wasn't government initiated.
You said it never even happened.
Your major concerts articles were dated after Houston canceled their Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Eagles canceled their Dallas show.
Again, so what? Read the articles - they didn't cancel because of government mandates.
Your Tuscon article is dated January 2022, which is two years beyond the scope of this discussion of the early days.
I know. It proves that even recently businesses were shutting down because of Covid concerns even though all government restrictions had been lifted.
Boy, that's insensitive.
It's like saying that a couple of people got cancer working at a manufacturing plant, but we still have plenty of workers to keep it going instead of shutting it down to look for possible sources of contamination.
Even so, so what? My point is it wasn't government initiated. You said it never even happened.
Now you're putting words in my mouth again. I never said it never happened.
You said "No one forced the NBA, NHL, concert promoters, etc. etc. to shut down."
I showed you how the mayor of Houston shut down the premier annual city event, how the state of Texas issued executive orders shutting down public gatherings, "non-essential" businesses, and quarantining travelers within two weeks of the CDC's 14 days protocol. Texas shut these things down until they knew more.
But you're the one who said "no one" did these things.
-PJ
I'm calling bullshit on this...
Sorry, I assumed that meant you were calling bullshit on my statement.
But you're the one who said "no one" did these things.
LOL. You found one.
I guess you got me now!
You said "No one forced the NBA, NHL, concert promoters, etc. etc. to shut down." I proved that to be false.
You said "their customers weren’t about to go out in public." I proved that to be false, too.
I told you anecdotally that the Toyota Center was full on March 7. You must know of all the stories of restaurants that began providing outdoor seating because of customer demand. You must know of all the stories of people trying to go to parks, like the Orthodox Jewish people who kept cutting the locks on their neighborhood parks in New York City.
So, yes, I was calling out your statement, but that's not saying that there weren't pockets of places that did it voluntarily. I think putting up the state of Texas against your small examples makes my point rather than yours.
-PJ
COVID-19 was a Peoples Liberation Army bioweapon, brought to its released state by gain-of-function research aided by Fauxi and other globalists. It was released in Wuhan to have a foothold by their national holiday week Oct 2019.
The wet market just happened to be the Ground Zero vector because it was where the old mandarins shopped, who got it first and worst.
The timing was to stop the renewed Hong Kong demonstrations, the knock-on effect was to defeat Trump.
Note very, very carefully that the Chinese learned incalculably valuable lessons when the PLA first released the MERS coronavirus against the ruling-class of Arabs in 2012. The Chinese had been rejected in a contemporary attempt to scrape away the business trade in petrodollars to the yuan, so badly that they perceived a great loss of face. MERS' R-factor failed to perform as expected, and so new gain-of-function research, with fresh, underhanded funding from Fauxi, renewed China's hopes.
[It is this gain-of-function funding that the Democrats fear will be revealed by Fauxi -- under oath in front of Chairman Paul's Senate Health Committee -- that will lead to their wipeout, perhaps as a Party entirely, in 2024.]
Nearly every 'scientist', on their first electron view of the virus, exclaimed some version of "look at that hardened shell" and "is it airborne?". Yes and yes.
In just this short time after COVID, it is possible to have a retrospective, and it is painfully obvious the CCP and the PLA, with global comrades-in-arms, selected this specific, post-MERS, designer-hardened virus, from a handful of candidates, foremostly for its projected fear factor (average R0 2-3 at the outset, fixing MERS shortcomings so it's gonna fly before it expires, plus Alpha's >5% terrible 'broken-glass' pneumonia; again, both were known outcomes to the Chinese, who promptly locked down internal flights but kept international flights up and running).
COVID-19's lifetime >1% mortality rate, again chosen from their bioweapon list to spare, well, nearly everyone in a global sense, BUT keyed to a steep incline after 70 ('useress eaters', and once more, a built-in guaranteed fear factor), that was impervious to vaccination (note that China, who create working vaccines of all kinds, and the most populous country on the globe, put up one strangely lame COVID vax attempt in SinoVax, just as quickly put it away, and immediately reverted to their communist 'crackdown' style of isolating outbreaks, while also expanding their DNA database to encompass all of their citizens, and a few too many foreigners), and finally, the Chinese knew it would mutate repeatedly, evading all prevention and most treatment every step of the way, until it was subsumed into our globally-shared virosphere.
I could go on, but this is a succinct enough, well-made case of forcing every single discussion henceforth on COVID -- not when, not if, not why, not who, but HOW does the United States lead the punishment on China?
There is no other conclusion: China has forfeited its sovereignty (which was always tenuous at best), as it can never again be trusted as an equal partner in any global organization you care to name.
Since China has his tentacles deeply wrapped around too many globalist organizations, their punishment must be a combination of overt US national policy, but also deploying numerous, surreptitious means of destroying XI, destroying his regmine, destroying the CCP, destroying the PLA, and disrupting and disabling China's bioweapon program.
There is no other possible response to China's Act of War, because failure to punish them will merely embold them to choose a virus higher on the list of mortality (see, DNA collection above) the next time around, which I am certain the dirty, godless, amoral, eggsuckingconfuciankowtowing communist bastards will do, and before we reach mid-century.
Big East officials were arguing with NCAA officials on a live mic, and the few people there made for the exits, I gotta tell you my gut tightened up right then and there, knowing we were in the deep end of the panic at that point.
Again, Chinese bioweapon, say it freely, say it often. Be good.
I showed that the NBA, NHL and the world's largest concert promoters chose to suspend operations on their own.
You said "their customers weren’t about to go out in public." I proved that to be false, too.
By claiming you went to a concert March 7th, before the pandemic really got going?
What I said was "If you look back to early/mid 2020 you’ll see all kinds of businesses voluntarily shutting down. If for no other reason than their customers weren’t about to go out in public.", which is undeniable. That doesn't mean the government didn't also shut some things down, and it doesn't mean no one still went out.
It does mean it wasn't all due to governmental lockdowns.
I think putting up the state of Texas against your small examples makes my point rather than yours.
Small examples like the NBA, NHL, the world's largest concert promotors, and how about the major theatre chains that closed nationwide - not because of government lockdowns?
It was a messy time but you can't seriously deny that a lot of businesses closed voluntarily and a lot of people avoided going out in public - voluntarily.
Then why do children have to take this bogus Gene therapy shot to attend school? Why are no candidates talking about this?
It was all done knowingly and maliciously. With evil intent.
COVID has never been a statistical threat to any relatively healthy person under 70. The pandemic was all lies, day in, day out.
It was the most successful scam in human history.
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