A Plague of Politicians

By David Robb

It is becoming clearer each day that the global imposition of lockdowns in the name of fighting COVID-19 has been one of the greatest political, economic, and social blunders of the decade, and perhaps even the century. Yet many leaders across the world continue to mandate existing lockdowns and even impose new ones in vain attempts to curb the spread of COVID in their populations. 

Originally opposed as an ineffective measure by nearly every epidemiologist worldwide, leaders across the globe followed, in monkey-see, monkey-do fashion, the example of China when it locked down the city of Wuhan and a few nearby areas. 

Aping the act of a totalitarian regime, leaders of liberal democracies across the world implemented lockdowns in what seemed to them, if to no one else, a good idea at the time. Sold as "two weeks to flatten the curve," lockdowns have continued for over a year, despite great evidence that the only curve flattening that happened was the curve of economic prosperity, and boy, were lockdowns effective at flattening that.......... Amazing how lockdowns imposed controls on two of the activities most likely to effectively challenge them.

So what might have happened if lockdowns had never been imposed? 

• We would have seen far fewer COVID deaths as effective health care information would have been widely disseminated, focused care of the most vulnerable implemented, and new therapeutics rapidly evaluated.
• Tens of millions of jobs would be intact.
•  Black and Hispanic employment would be at record highs.
•  Our civil rights, rule of law, and our Constitution would still be intact.
•  There would be no vaccine passports.
•  Trump would likely still be president.

A great deal of damage has already been done by politically imposed lockdowns.  We should not tolerate a minute more of their insanity. Continuing and even repeating a bad idea doesn't make it any better the second time around.

Yes, we have the advantage of 20-20 hindsight today, so let us put it to good use.  Any future disaster is never sufficient to justify the loss of our fundamental rights nor of our fundamental ability to provide for our own survival.....................To Read More.....