Well the swedes really obeyed voluntary rules in large numbers. But still if they got one third of the traffic they used to have, businesses did a lot better than ours
They have a genetic tweak that may have helped many of them. Ccr5 delta 32. It helps protect against hiv
All of life is but a series of trade-offs.
You pays your money and you takes your choice. How did we ever come to have so many dumbed-down nitwits who do not realize this?
“No! Impossible!!!! Applesauce and Oranges!!! Aaarfh!! “
—cowards hiding, somewhere
Trade-offs have always been accepted by intelligent and virtuous people. In the 1700’s, colonial America had a succession of epidemics of smallpox, a truly barbaric disease. People in those days knew they got diseases by being around people who had them, even if they did not know about germs. If anyone had proposed quarantining EVERYONE to stop the epidemics, he would have been tarred and feathered
The “experts” that advocated the lock downs are to arrogant to have concerned themselves, even morally, about the costs of the lock downs, in human terms, much less economic terms.
When you advocate for the economy, the Left reads that as though you are advocating for Wall Street, the banks and the corporations. THAT is how they see the economy, because the economy is not theirs, not a centralized government program.
But the economy is not grounded in Wall Street, the banks and the corporations. They may appear to be at the pinnacle of the economy, but the ground they are built on is from the bottom up. The economy is the people in their daily local financial intercourse, the people in their jobs and what they choose to do and must do with their earnings, the people with how they save and invest, and they spend and why they spend, and where they spend. The economy trickles from that ground up into the and through the banks, into investments, into Wall Street. A most accurate image of the economy would look like an upside down pyramid, with the ground floor on top - the people and their activity - trickling down through the layers to where gravity feeds the places where savings and investments get what finally does not have to be spent, and the agents of that kind of activity, corporations, banks, Wall Street try to allocate that excess for the future.
By mandating all the “little people” quit working, the Left would have it that it is only Wall Street, the bankers and the corporations that are out of luck, when the reality is they are the least hurt compared to the tens of millions that have been forced out of their livelihoods, which some are never getting back.
And it was all unnecessary.
Declaring everyone, universally, at all times when together mask up would have been as safe as need be without closing anything down. That alone would have “flattened the curve enough”.
But, apparently, in my mind, someone wanted the economy destroyed.
Now just look at what kind of economy is being built as we speak on the ashes of the economic shut down, and who is benefiting from it. Apparently, we the people were not joining the technological society fast enough. The old economy had to be destroyed in order to build a new one, driven by and held in the charge of the technologists.