[2aProtectsTheRest]

"But any support of the BS hyper-inflated infection numbers are effectively a support for lockdowns and masks, because those are the numbers they are using to justify them."

Actually it's exactly the opposite: accepting that the numbers are as high as they makes it more important that the governors and state government officials, health departments, etc. have effective policies. If nobody's dying because none of this is real, then who cares whether they're putting infected patients into nursing homes and causing people to pack the aisles at Costco to panic-buy the toilet paper? What does it matter that they're putting up homeless people in hotel rooms on the taxpayer dime?

But if this is all real and they're knowingly putting infected people into nursing homes, leading to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths - possibly as many as 100,000 unnecessary deaths? Then they should be under indictment and on their way to prison. Then inspiring panic-buying at Costco and Walmart is driving up infection rates and causing unnecessary deaths. And taking homeless people from the outdoors (low risk per the CDC) and putting them indoors (high risk per the CDC) is costing lives.

Accepting the reality of the deaths being what they are is completely separate from accepting that the response has been effective. It hasn't been. To some degree, I think it's been literally criminal. This is a serious situation. It demands a serious response. What we've gotten - particularly from states with Democrats running the government - has been a bunch of half-baked anti-science nonsense that's driven businesses out of business and middle class families into poverty.

I accept the numbers for what they are because all the research I've done into them suggests the numbers are largely accurate. What one must also then examine is how many lives have been lost BECAUSE of the response from the governors. And every one of those lives should be considered criminally negligent homicide when the eventuality was foreseeable. Put Cuomo in shackles and never let him see the light of day again. Newsom too. Probably a half dozen others right along with them. Yeah, those deaths are real, and a boatload of them are dead BECAUSE these idiots utterly failed to effectively respond.

[fr_freak]

If nobody's dying because none of this is real, then who cares whether they're putting infected patients into nursing homes and causing people to pack the aisles at Costco to panic-buy the toilet paper? What does it matter that they're putting up homeless people in hotel rooms on the taxpayer dime?

You're joking, right? Causing this sort of panic and mayhem among the population without just cause is ENOUGH to put these a-holes in jail, just by itself. Placing infected people into nursing homes is the icing on the cake.

Even if this virus were a run-of-the-mill corona virus, especially a new one, it would be exceedingly malicious to send infected people into facilities where elderly people who have one foot in the grave reside. I would imagine that there are fairly strict protocols regarding employees who are sick coming into contact with these vulnerable people, regardless of whether the employee has "just" the flu.

But I think we have both situations. I think we have what amounts to an over-hyped false alarm for 99% of the population, combined with the reprehensible exposure of this virus to that other 1% as a means to scare the other 99% into submission. The intent is to scare healthy, low-risk people into believing they are on the verge of apocalypse. If they start to wise up, just claim that every normal death that the US would have suffered in a year is actually COVID. Blame flu on COVID. Blame pneumonia on COVID. Blame heart disease on COVID.