Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020, it happened to all of us, causing an avalanche of social, cultural, and economic destruction that will ring through the ages.
There was nothing normal about it all. We’ll be trying to figure out what happened to us for decades hence.
How did a temporary plan to preserve hospital capacity turn into two-to-three months of near-universal house arrest that ended up causing worker furloughs at 256 hospitals, a stoppage of international travel, a 40% job loss among people earning less than $40K per year, devastation of every economic sector, mass confusion and demoralization, a complete ignoring of all fundamental rights and liberties, not to mention the mass confiscation of private property with forced closures of millions of businesses?
Whatever the answer, it’s got to be a bizarre tale. What’s truly surprising is just how recent the theory behind lockdown and forced distancing actually is. So far as anyone can tell, the intellectual machinery that made this mess was invented 14 years ago, and not by epidemiologists but by computer-simulation modelers. It was adopted not by experienced doctors – they warned ferociously against it – but by politicians.
Finally, the remarkable conclusion:
Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted. Strong political and public health leadership to provide reassurance and to ensure that needed medical care services are provided are critical elements. If either is seen to be less than optimal, a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.
An excellent article Kabar. A keeper.
This is an interesting read also-quoting Jeff Tucker.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/why-life-went-on-as-normal-during-the-killer-pandemic-of-1969/
Yet here we are today, with another 2 doctors ( Fauci and Birx) who aren’t virologists or infectious disease specialists( they are internists) promoting masks, social distancing and the shutdown of the economy.
The entire effort is to take over America in weeks instead of centuries through a medical con that left reputable Americans broke and near helpless for seemingly doing the right thing.
We have lost the first round. The Illuminati,communists and those who want the earth's population to disappear won the first round.
They are already setting us up for round two. This could be the true take-over. Most of us are at the point of being outraged and tired of listening to leaders at all levels.Govt.leaders who have sold us out for a contrived planned-demic that was never as bad as sold.
Round two will come during the flu season this Fall. We can only hope that leadership at all levels will not fall for the second con by those who hate America.