Was government correct in closing down many activities during COVID

[TruthNotBS]

Was government correct in closing down many activities during COVID.

It depends if your focus is lives or money

Research suggests that the adoption of lockdowns in the initial COVID surge helped contain transmission and deaths, albeit at high economic and social costs.

I support saving lives. Lives do not come back, the economy does.

How Effective Were Pandemic Lockdowns ? | Econofact

Lockdowns were widely adopted worldwide during the COVID 19 pandemic and have been hotly debated ever since. What lessons can be drawn for future pandemics?

econofact.org

I agree. If other countries with much fewer resources were able to practice a temporary lockdown and even provide an income and some resources and services to their citizens, so can the USA. If we would've ignored the pandemic, and just went as business as usual, the situation would've been much worse. Imagine 90% of a population of 330 million people, becoming infected in less than four or five months. About 15% of everyone who got infected, had to go to the hospital, so let's do the math. In five months:

49,500,000 Americans Hospitalized.
That's 12,375,000 monthly patients seeking medical care for Covid.
Our healthcare system would've collapsed.
US DEATH TOLL: 15 to 25 million.​

This doesn't factor in the fact that the others who are infected and don't need to go to the hospital, will still need to rest, stay at home, take medicine...etc. The economy would be ruined, even more so than when a temporary lockdown is implemented, to save lives and preserve the economy.

Mask mandates, for people in crowded public venues were also a good public safety measure:

​

During the Spanish flu in the early 1900s, it was proven that the towns and cities where people wore masks, had fewer infections and a lower mortality rate.

 

[jc456]

I am not a fan of far left commies but they may be better than MAGA.

cause again, you enjoy paying three times trump prices. Wow. sadistic human

 

[TruthNotBS]

cause again, you enjoy paying three times trump prices. Wow. sadistic human

Socialists would simply look at prices across the board and impose price controls. Barabing, end of unnecessary price hikes.

 

[ElmerMudd]

cause again, you enjoy paying three times trump prices. Wow. sadistic human

I don't like high prices but I hate immorality, unethical, self-serving policy, more.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

You killed more than you saved.

Yep........Drugs, depression, alcoholism. Shit, more cigarettes too. I also watched many of the elderly raise their middle fingers and check out. My last four surviving uncles, and my step-father, for instance. That shit aint no coincidence.

 

[jc456]

I don't like high prices but I hate immorality, unethical, self-serving policy, more.

You think women have dicks and you want to tell me you have morals. Fk all women is you

 

[ElmerMudd]

You think women have dicks and you want to tell me you have morals. Fk all women is you

A true MAGA response. And an angry MAGA.

 

[jc456]

A true MAGA response. And an angry MAGA.

Why do you think women want to be insulted by men?

 

[jc456]

They paid people off with all of that specially named legislation. And the corruption is off the meters.

Want people to comply, give them money

 

[ElmerMudd]

Why do you think women want to be insulted by men?

I don't think women want to be insulted by men. I find Trump insults women and all minorities.

I don't want to insult women.

Women should not be insulted

 

[jc456]

I don't think women want to be insulted by men. I find Trump insults women and all minorities.

I don't want to insult women.

Women should not be insulted

Then why are they pretending to be a woman? A vagina is the most powerful weapon. Ahhh

 

[ElmerMudd]

They paid people off with all of that specially named legislation. And the corruption is off the meters.

There was way to much corruption.

Many businesses and individual needed the funds. The funds helped prop up the economy.

The government did not have enough safeguards to prevent cheating but it is hard to put in the safeguards. People find ways to work around the safeguards.

People's greed kicked in. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, whites, blacks and all races, a;ll religions and athiests, had greedy people who cheated and stole funds from us, the tax payer.
Every well meaning and needed governement program, helping people in need, is infiltrated by greedy cheaters.

The problem is not as much government as human nature.

 

[ElmerMudd]

Then why are they pretending to be a woman? A vagina is the most powerful weapon. Ahhh so you are a vagina?

I don't know and I don't understand.
It is an issue I stay away from. What about women becoming men?

Most women I know have more empathy toward trans than men.

There are other things to worry about. The state laws effect it the most. It is a stae issue.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I didn't mask, i didn't social distance, i went down the grocery isle the wrong way, but the best fun i had was faking a cough in line...... ~S~

You have islands in your grocery?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Closing schools was a huge mistake and set back education by years. Many kids will never get passed it.

.

The word is "past".

 

[Captain Caveman]

Was government correct in closing down many activities during COVID.

It depends if your focus is lives or money

Research suggests that the adoption of lockdowns in the initial COVID surge helped contain transmission and deaths, albeit at high economic and social costs.

I support saving lives. Lives do not come back, the economy does.

How Effective Were Pandemic Lockdowns ? | Econofact

Lockdowns were widely adopted worldwide during the COVID 19 pandemic and have been hotly debated ever since. What lessons can be drawn for future pandemics?

econofact.org

IMO, countries that had lockdowns got it wrong.

Hear me out.

In the initial stages, I stepped back and looked at the whole picture. One thing that stood out was the number of deaths that would result from lockdowns, but not from COVID itself. So here in the UK, some predicted 8,000+ would die because their cancer wasn't caught at the early stage due to cancelled screening appointments. The other prediction was, unemployment, supply and demand problems, high inflation etc.. after the lockdowns. This would impact detrimentally on diet, and thus on health. So more die from illnesses brought on by poorer diets over the coming years. So in reality, deaths from the effects of COVID lockdowns continue to this day, apparently.

So the planet lost a tiny tiny tiny few folk under lock downs, and no doubt just a tiny tiny few with no lockdowns. Then that gap narrows due to missed cancer screenings and poor diet.

And now, the vast majority are suffering.

So from the start, I was against lockdowns.

 

[jc456]

I don't know and I don't understand.
It is an issue I stay away from. What about women becoming men?

Most women I know have more empathy toward trans than men.

There are other things to worry about. The state laws effect it the most. It is a stae issue.

They don’t want to go change in front of them, and, they still have a magic vagina

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Interesting measurement of the economy, gas prices.
A worldwide analysis shows the US has lower gas prices than the majority of countries world wide.

Rating countries by the lowest gas prices, the US is in the top 15%

Gasoline prices around the world, 05-Aug-2024 | GlobalPetrolPrices.com

Gas prices by country using official data sources.

www.globalpetrolprices.com

Spoken like a true socialist. Gas prices are higher in other countries due to increased production and transportation costs and the major contributor is taxes.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Was government correct in closing down many activities during COVID.

It depends if your focus is lives or money

Research suggests that the adoption of lockdowns in the initial COVID surge helped contain transmission and deaths, albeit at high economic and social costs.

I support saving lives. Lives do not come back, the economy does.

How Effective Were Pandemic Lockdowns ? | Econofact

Lockdowns were widely adopted worldwide during the COVID 19 pandemic and have been hotly debated ever since. What lessons can be drawn for future pandemics?

econofact.org

MAGA states had more deaths per capita. Thats answers the question.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

More than half of US states reporting 'very high' COVID activity levels: CDC​

Shutdowns did nothing. Eventually, Covid will spread, and there isn't one dame thing we can do about it.

I wouldn't do a dame thing anyway, because I don't know what that is!