Lockdowns did not work
Masking was ineffective
Social distancing was ineffective
The politics of all of this are inescapable.
Treatment regimes DID WORK, but the same people promoting the ineffective cancelled those in the push for the vaccine.
Fauci lied and people died.
I wish I could remember the best comment I saw on all that, and I think it was around a year ago by a virologist or similar.
“Virus gonna virus.”
IMHO,
Most of these issues have a shred/degree of truth to them (initially): global warming, ozone hole, acid rain...
The problem is that when politicians and the media latch onto these issues, they use them in opposition politics, self promotion, for economic benefit (self and normally mega corporations), for the government bureaucracies advantage (scope and budget), to sell advertising (media ratings)...
***SELDOM does an intelligent solution get implemented.***
The issue becomes no more than a slogan, a cause to rally people around so that everyone can profiteer from this “crisis.” You end up with a TSA that for $9,000,000,000 a year has not caught a single terrorist to date! You end up with (Ad council) idiotic water conservation commercials running on TV during Katrina while New Orleans was under water. You end up with the US government legalizing marijuana eventually after they destroyed thousands of peoples lives (Nixon used this to go after his opposition, like Biden is using the 6 January protest to discredit/criminalize opponents)...
Why the mask? It makes people feel like they have control, like they can do something, and that is important psychologically. Why close restaurants, public pools and beaches, some of which are the safest place you could have been (a beach with sun, heat, salt water, fresh air, sand... is NOT where Covid thrives)? This shows that you a politician took action! You took action in crisis and made decisions, and that makes you a “leader” with a microphone talking about all you did every night like Cuomo. No one will ask if it was all retarded shit which in some cases actually cost people their lives - see Cuomo and senior living homes.
All their PhDs, years of experience, and titles do not matter. They are essentially idiots because the politics, bureaucracy, political expediency and economics behind the scene influencing things, decision making that is half baked (quick and without much thought behind it) make for retard decisions. These decisions are made on the fly, they are based on how they can fit into some political agenda to advance a campaign (Biden with his XL mask)...
What is sad is that the Germans copy us... always, even if it’s stupid. I still do not know why the Germans had a BLM protest in Berlin? Is it because they have 1% blacks living there? Is it because they never had slavery like we had? Is it because all the blacks in Germany came their on their own free will, seeking a better life? Why does Germany have BLM protests? Because they copy EVERYTHING, even if it’s stupid or makes no sense for them.