Posted on 10/18/2021 12:53:45 PM PDT by SJackson
America remains bound by often extreme pandemic restrictions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends staying 6 feet away from others. In Oregon, everyone must wear a mask outdoors. In parts of the country, 2-year-olds must wear masks.
Are such rules necessary?
Recently, Denmark lifted all pandemic restrictions.
"Go Denmark!" cheers George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux in my latest video. "We in the United States should do the same."
"We reduced COVID, through vaccination, to a fairly mild ailment for the vast majority of people," says Boudreaux. "You don't have to worry if the bartender at your favorite bar is vaccinated or not. You are protected against suffering severe consequences. Get vaccinated, and then go about your life normally!"
Portugal and Sweden recently removed most restrictions, too. The United Kingdom ditched plans to require "vaccine passports."
"We don't have to continue to upend human life in our quest to eliminate COVID, which can't happen anyway," says Boudreaux.
"Why not?" I ask. "We eliminated smallpox."
"Smallpox resides only in human beings," explains Boudreaux. COVID-19 can live in animals — bats, deer, dogs, cats. "We have never eliminated a disease that uses both humans and animals as reservoirs."
Still, China acted as if eliminating COVID-19 were possible.
They've kept deaths much lower (if you believe their numbers) than other countries by imposing nasty repressive measures like quarantines at gunpoint and even locking people in their homes.
"It's just awful. It's tyrannical. It's what you expect of a Communist tyrannical government," says Boudreaux.
Australia's been almost that tough. They've also imposed curfews and arrested people for not wearing masks. In some places, police proudly announced they "smashed windows of people in cars and pull them out ... because they weren't telling us where they were going."
Don't worry about losing freedom, says Daniel Andrews, premier of the state of Victoria. "They're not rules that are against you. They are rules for you."
"So say all dictators and tyrants," retorts Boudreaux.
These countries can't lock down forever. When the lockdowns stop, COVID-19 will return.
That's why Denmark ended COVID-19 restrictions.
"It's not admitting defeat; it's admitting reality," says Boudreaux. "We learn to live with COVID in the same way that we learn to live with many other pathogens. ... The bacteria that caused the Black Death is still circulating in the human population. A handful of people every year still die of it."
In the Wall Street Journal, he wrote, "Eradication of Covid is a dangerous and expensive fantasy."
"We live with countless hazards, each of which we could but sensibly choose not to eradicate. Automobile fatalities could be eradicated by outlawing motor vehicles. Drowning could be eradicated by outlawing swimming and bathing. Electrocution could be eradicated by outlawing electricity. We live with these risks not because we're indifferent to suffering but because we understand that the costs of zero-drowning or zero-electrocution would be far too great. The same is true of zero-Covid."
That's why, now that we have largely effective vaccines, he says it's time to end pointless lockdowns and do what Denmark is doing:
"Live life normally again! Travel, go to parties, weddings, sporting events. Live life and be joyous! Hopefully, humanity will come to its senses soon."
I hope he's right.
A coronavirus isn’t going away. That’s not what they do.
Average age of COVID death is still higher than average life expectancy.
We are largely dealing with old people getting sick and dying. You could try to stop that from happening, but you will fail.
Just accept the reality and stop the tyranny.
Operation Warp Speed 2.0-Develop and perfect Covid cures. Let private industry take the lead, not the media and government hacks.
Operation Warp Speed 3.0-Develop a superior vaccine.
He can even call it infrastructure. But it won't happen, liberal mayors and governors would be left with nothing to blame their incompetency on.
“Live life normally again! Travel, go to parties, weddings, sporting events. Live life and be joyous! Hopefully, humanity will come to its senses soon.”
Kind of what I’ve been doing all along. We’ve had a total of 15 deaths in my entire COUNTY of 30,000 people as of today. And the total stayed at 14 for a year and a half!
Me, too. It seems blue areas put up with the restrictions. They are so fearful of either the disease and their neighbors, they go along with tyranny.
Since the “vaccine” doesn’t make you immune and doesn’t prevent transmission, and (may) reduce severity when you do catch it, my question is has the vaccine and mask wearing delayed herd immunity that could otherwise have happened a year ago if the infection had been allowed to run it’s course naturally?
Joe’s War on Covid has been almost as successful as his withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Bound?
I’m not “bound” by any of this shite.
Of all this nonsense I am for social distancing. But not 6ft. 3 or 4 feet works for me.
Although,it really isn’t about germs.
president jotato’s actions and double standards prove the kung flu is a scam...
The Fauci/China biological warfare virus is "a fairly mild ailment for the vast majority of people" without the terminator vaccines.
99.98% survivable for people under the age of 50, and the majority of those who die of it have an average of 2.5 comorbidities. The average age is 80. The median age is 78.
Almost zero children die of it.
The real issue we should address is the arrest, trial, sentencing and execution of the people who created and released the Fauci/China biological warfare virus for the purpose of forcing untested deadly vaccines on the global population.
There was a link to a UK Ministry of Health website that allowed you to take a quiz to determine your “risk” of dying from COVID. Being government sponsored, it was full of scary warnings.
I took the test.
I am 59, with a BMI of 39, pre-diabetes, and a medical history that includes a double PE.
It said I was at GREAT risk and needed to get the jab. Then it had a button that would show my risk in odds.
My chances of dying of COVID are...1 in 991.
You have got to be kidding me.
Thanks for the info.
I tested to “COVID associated death 0.0219% 1 in 4566”
https://www.qcovid.org/Calculation
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