PROOF THAT COVID SHUTDOWNS ARE USELESS

[SVPete]

PROOF THAT COVID SHUTDOWNS ARE USELESS

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/proof-that-covid-shutdowns-are-useless.php

When the coronavirus struck in 2020, governments followed different paths. Some, like the Scandinavian countries, took a relatively realistic approach and did not pretend the virus could be kept out. Others, especially island countries, adopted a “zero covid” strategy and went to extreme lengths to try to keep the virus at bay. This always struck me as ludicrous. It is hard enough to keep out illegal immigrants, but a virus? Forget about it. Moreover, if extreme isolation is the price of avoiding the virus, as in Australia and New Zealand, what are they going to do? Keep it up forever? Impossible.
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The Economist’s point is well taken, and frankly was predictable as of the Spring of 2020. But what of the other countries that tried to achieve “zero covid”? I won’t even talk about China, whose numbers I don’t trust and which right now is apparently starving its citizens in Shanghai in a desperate attempt to achieve the impossible. Let’s take Australia, which went full fascist in a vain effort to exclude a virus from its shores (the following charts are from Our World In Data):

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New Zealand:

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[Broken Record] Total shutdown policies such as Xi's hobble the accumulation of resistance from recovery and thereby make a nation's population more vulnerable, unnecessarily, to the disease. [/Broken Record]

[Eupher]

AFAIK, Arkansas has never had a full-blown shutdown. Which is good, since I recognized the stupidity of all of that Covid shit when the mask thing became a fashion statement.

Masks became somewhat "optional" about a year ago. Some facilities - mostly medical - still insisted on the dumbass mask mandate, which is still in place at the Little Rock AFB 19th Medical Group. Dumbassery personified. Masks solve nothing, but apparently they didn't get the memo.

But everywhere else -- including the AFB base exchange and everywhere else, masks are not required.

My doctor's office still requires the dumbass masks. I don't go in there unless I absolutely have to. Stupidity personified. The hospital administration morons insist on the wearing of masks. Interesting how they're not obligated to wear them -- only those with direct contact with patients.