Yeah lock downs are harsh man, especially on 3rd world countries like ours, where the economy was tanking before the pandemic.
It's a tough one hey.
China was the first to go into lock down right? And it was a quite extreme one! Then Italy started getting hammered and the world panicked. It looked for a time that France and Spain would see high fatalities. Also remember how Boris in the UK was being hammered daily for the lack of decisive action re lock down? They seen some extreme numbers there too.
That was the problem; it started in a communist country who first tried to cover it up for suspicious reasons, then colluded with WHO all the while refusing access to the world's epidemiologists. Judging solely on China's atrocious and heavy handed response to this -- panic inevitably ensued, even though after opposition parties the world over first tried to downplay the threat... but when Italy went into hands up panic mode , following along with their cohort China's model of despotic lunacy, the world finally relented and followed suit down the road of irrationality, kicking liberty out the door.
Naturally opposition parties saw this as a political truncheon; the fact that it was political season meant it was only more advantageous, hence truncheon approaches like lockdowns, masks and other BS became the order of the day. The only country to not fall for this crap was Sweden; the UK tried but like the US, the political attacks meant hedging bets, even though every other pandemic / epidemic proved it was a senseless approach.
For example:
Obama terminated the testing in the middle and at the height of the H1N1 pandemic because it wasn't useful and only would create panic; Fauci was one of the guys to suggest this. Yet here we are today, Fauci taking the flip side argument, a world tracking the untrackable, locking down the healthy and willfully destroying the world's economy because it's politically advantageous to do so.
...and the electorate goes along because the daily death toll, infections, ... computer models and statistics make this seem all to real and so "severe". FFS a whole world wearing masks; frightened by coughs -- just because some immoral scumbags decided their political ambitions were a greater priority and the world be damned.
The only good things I see from this is that rational people will never believe forecasters; -- to simply say they were wrong is massively understating the problem. so much for just blindly trusting some computer model and the science. Second is that the world is filled will scumbag scientists, doctors and companies who put their politics, economic interests ahead of the truth, turning what should have been just another H1N1 type pandemic into a global warming style political fiasco.
The real victims in all of this will be those who were already struggling before this; but for scumbag politicians even that's advantageous, because now they have more victims and something to blame whilst they sweep their perpetual ineptitude under the rug...
... as they say a nation deserves the government they elect (even the scumbags) and South Africa has won many of the gold medals in the politically feckless olympics.
