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The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing
American Institute for Economic Research ^ | April 19, 2021 | Jeffrey A. Tu cker

Posted on 04/21/2021 4:15:24 PM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 04/21/2021 4:15:24 PM PDT by george76
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Lockdowns are the excuse for dictatorship. Whoever is in charge now a days will continue them with fauci the fraud leading the charge.


2 posted on 04/21/2021 4:17:42 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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I was out and about today. Some people were wearing masks, some weren’t, many had one side dropped so their noses and mouths were out in the open.

Why isn’t China being held accountable and responsible for the murder of citizens of the world and the economic devastation.


3 posted on 04/21/2021 4:19:52 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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I read that book by Kuhn. It was interesting. Noted how some saw sparks emanate from certain substances which could not be explained.


4 posted on 04/21/2021 4:26:06 PM PDT by Fungi
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There’s still gas lighting, fearmongering and censorship to contend with. But the more Fauci is left speechless by facts, the happier I feel.


5 posted on 04/21/2021 4:27:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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Lockdowns are a substitute for quarantines.

You do not quarantine healthy people.

You quarantine sick people.

Simply put, that is why lockdowns didn't work.

Governors, especially totalitarian leaning blue state governors, locked down everyone and negated the purpose of the lockdowns to begin with.

Simply put, this is why you don't have lay politicians managing a viral pandemic.

6 posted on 04/21/2021 4:27:55 PM PDT by HotHunt
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Lockdowns were forced on us by Communist China. We were subjected to propaganda early on, showing people walking down the street falling down. Etc. China needed lockdowns to stop the protest that had been going on for two or three months in Wuhan and the ones in Hong Kong that had been rapidly gaining traction and threatened to spread to main land cities.

Western governments followed because it was a good way to remove Trump, watch the great reset, and they could not be seen as being less concerned when the Chinese were welding people inside their apartments.

This was a Chinese communist solution that our government and industry were more than happy to embrace, to get China Inc. back on track and get rid of Trump. Resist!


7 posted on 04/21/2021 4:34:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has been “locked down”.

Throughout this whole mess I’ve gone where ever I want when ever I want.

What is locked down?


8 posted on 04/21/2021 4:36:33 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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The Lockdowners concentrated on the healthy and ignored the vulnerable.

Really stupid, Democrats!!


9 posted on 04/21/2021 4:39:39 PM PDT by Karoo
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The problem with this analysis is that the author assumes that the Lockdown paradigm is driven by science. It is not. It’s driven by superstition. Superstition cannot be refuted with logic. The only thing that works is ridicule.


10 posted on 04/21/2021 4:43:33 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

It probably wasn’t really China deliberately. They may have just produced the original Covid “strain” but then are simply watching the rest of the world self destruct by itself. It benefits them is the West implodes on its own.
They can claim “we warned you back in December 2019 that we had something loose”.


11 posted on 04/21/2021 4:44:02 PM PDT by USAF80
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unfortunately in Southern California, the Cult of the Mask is alive and well. Everywhere, you see people walking alone on the street wearing masks. You still have to wear a mask inside most shops, and if you pull it down to breathe better, you’re likely to be scolded by some Karen.


12 posted on 04/21/2021 4:44:24 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Sen. Rand Paul: If Biden wants more Americans vaccinated, he should ‘burn his mask’ on national TV.

Kentucky Republican tells ‘The Story’ no evidence vaccinated people spread COVID-19
By Michael Quinlan | Fox News

Rand Paul: If Fauci can prove vaccinated people are spreading COVID ‘I’ll listen’

Kentucky Republican reacts to the NIAID director calling for vaccinated people to wear masks on ‘The Story’

If President Biden wants to motivate more Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, he should “go on national TV, take his mask off and burn it,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “The Story” Wednesday.

“[Biden should] light a torch to it and burn his mask and say, ‘I’ve had the vaccine. I am now safe from this plague. If you’ll get the vaccine you can be safe too,’” Paul told host Martha MacCallum. “The burden of proof should be on the government to prove we’re spreading it. [If we are.] then we’ll listen to them. Instead it sounds like fear-mongering.”

Paul also continued his criticism of White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci for insisting that vaccinated Americans continue to wear masks to avoid inadvertently infecting vulnerable people.

“The science is about proving that things are happening,” he said. “If Dr. Fauci can prove that people who are vaccinated are spreading the disease, I will listen to him. If he can prove people like me, who have already had it [COVID-19], are spreading the disease, I’ll listen to him. But there is no evidence of that.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-biden-burn-mask-get-more-americans-vaccinated


13 posted on 04/21/2021 4:49:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Still alive, in spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021)
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Normally you would get a task force together with numerous doctors, scientists and specialists. Together they would have came out with a consensus on how to proceed. This entire process should have been available for the public. Having just the WHO and Fraudci controlling everything is a recipe for disaster and/or manipulation.


14 posted on 04/21/2021 4:50:16 PM PDT by USAF80
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We know for sure that the lockdowns imposed astonishing collateral damage.

I believe the worst is yet to come. All the money created out of thin air is going to send inflation through the roof killing all of us who recently retired and moved to fixed income. Maybe the Dems want us eating dog food so we will croak faster.

15 posted on 04/21/2021 4:51:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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And apparently the wimmin folk and kids are starting to lose what little sanity and self-control they had


16 posted on 04/21/2021 4:52:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Thanks for re posting this reality:

Lockdowns are a substitute for quarantines.

You do not quarantine healthy people.

You quarantine sick people.

Simply put, that is why lockdowns didn’t work.

Governors, especially totalitarian leaning blue state governors, locked down everyone and negated the purpose of the lockdowns to begin with.

Simply put, this is why you don’t have lay politicians managing a viral pandemic.

6 posted on 4/21/2021, 4:27:55 PM by HotHunt


17 posted on 04/21/2021 4:54:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Still alive, in spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021)
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Lockdown = Flat Earth. Or, the lockdowners realized that, had promiscuous homosexuals been put into lockdown, AIDS could have been minimized in the 1980’s. So they overcompensated this time and got the whole world locked down.

The reason we are getting to the end of lockdown is because Donald Trump pushed the Warp Speed initiative. Thank God it was him and not Hillary.

18 posted on 04/21/2021 4:59:15 PM PDT by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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Or compare closed California with open Florida: similar death rates

Two words.....Spring Break.

19 posted on 04/21/2021 5:05:48 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (Escaped CA, not going back except to visit a friend or two perhaps every two years. )
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IMHO, all we need is a video of beachgoers on the beach here in FL pointing into a camera and laughing at those who are locked down, and it would end all lockdowns.


20 posted on 04/21/2021 5:21:13 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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