Posted on 05/03/2021 7:38:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The U.S. shut down much of the economy, and still more than half a million Americans died from COVID-19 while children lost out on school, shops shuttered and Congress spent $6 trillion on relief, sparking a consensus that prolonged lockdowns cannot be the treatment of choice for future pandemics.
“It was never intended to be a long-term thing. I think politics, media hysteria just took over,” said Joe Grogan, who led the Domestic Policy Council under President Trump and served on his COVID-19 task force.
The original shutdown plans were supposed to last only a few weeks, he recalled.
“One thing to keep in mind is the shutdown started because the New York City health system was on the verge of collapse. At least that was what it looked like,” Mr. Grogan said. “Then we were worried about other health systems shutting down.”
The economic shutdowns reduced the number of cases but proved to be a blunt instrument, with massive job losses, permanent business closures and excess deaths from a host of causes as people put off regular health screenings or treatments. Restaurants and music and art venues are teetering, and drug overdose deaths are worse than they have ever been.
The situation forced the nation to reckon with a clunky approach that exposed years of failure to invest in tools that could head off desperate measures during a pandemic.
Lawmakers, doctors and disease trackers alike agree on one thing: They do not want to do it again.
“For future infectious disease emergencies, this cannot be the treatment of choice,” said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “We must fix the flaws in our public health system, empower scientific leadership to take proactive actions and have a delimited framework for how to use...
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“ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken
I doubt our “betters” learned anything but power is fun!
“Then we were worried about other health systems shutting down.”
The health system was never going to “shut down”. Painful and uncomfortable decisions would have been made, for sure. But an entire systemic collapse wasn’t in the cards.
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Love me some Mencken.
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You can hide from the virus but sooner or later, it’s gonna find you.
Climate Emergency Lockdowns are coming. We will love it
I believe this was a tactic of war that committed by China, through America’s corrupt politicians, to create an unbridgeable gap of disadvantage.
Many of these kids will not be fit for any occupation, other than retail, because of the two years they had their education interrupted.
A more important consideration is that libtards recognized a crisis to be exploited.
Fauxcy fascism from the guy who bought the virus.
don’t they always? How many times can people fall for it?
I guess as many times as possible when they’ve been conditioned to not have freedom...hence the constant blather about hating the west and whitey.
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Once Memorial Day passed a year ago, I knew we were stuck on stupid through the election. Looks like now the electorate has suffered nerpament dain bramage.
Rona gonna find you! Ready or not!
Anyway, they’re fishing for excuses as we speak to keep lockdowns and maks-wearing a permanent condition, economy be damned.
Utter B.S. came from the great white ape. He received the USS Comfort and the Army Corp of Engineers built out the Jacob Javits center as a field hospital. He never used either. Son of Sfaccimm in the mean time while screaming for ventilators killed many, many elderly New Yorkers by sending the infected into their nursing homes. Utterly despicable.
Absolutely no mention of preventatives or early treatments.
Given the performance baseline of public K-12 and woke colleges I hesitate to deem their missed opportunities irrevocable. Private enterprise, IF give a chance to innovate and work, should be able to salvage many of these kids. Of course the regime is motivated to keep them useless and dependent on government.
I hope things can be repaired. I’m just sad for the kids who have had their futures finished before they even began.
Government has learned people will bend over without lube if they tell you something is “for the common good” or along those lines.
Americans have grown weak, apathetic, and complacent.
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