This is a visual illustration of what we will eventually conclude the federal and state governments accomplished by their policies during the pandemic. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.
Now is the time to put these prediction into print.
How much harm was caused by government reaction to the pandemic? I will put into print my predictions of what we eventually learn of the damage willfully caused by the federal and state governments.
Over the last two years reports have surfaced here and there hinting at the following predictions. In the next few months more reports will emerge.
It will take honest, serious researchers years before statistically valid research provides solid evidence for these predictions. Strong, verifiable, reproducible proof will emerge with time.
I predict that in a decade or two there will be a consensus throughout the country that the government reaction to the coronavirus pandemic was the worst, most destructive government policy in U.S. history.
Seven predictions follow:
1 – Government response caused more deaths as measured by years-of-life-lost than deaths prevented by the government response as measured by years-of-life-lost.
It is time to lay down my predictions about what we will eventually conclude about the damage caused by the government reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.
It will take time, but we will eventually prove government actions caused horrible damage. We will quantify the destruction willfully inflicted.
Since April 2020 I have been writing about the damage caused by the economic shutdown imposed by federal and state governments. Over 200 posts on this blog point out the economic, political, social, educational, and medical damage directly caused by government action.
I started writing in early April 2020 calling out the danger of lockdowns with my first direct complaint on 4/26/20 about the damage caused by government actions.
To lay down my first marker, here is the headline and first paragraph from back in late April 2020:
Image from FEMA at https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
I don’t know how any comedian can possibly develop new jokes when competing against the silly, silly people in the public health community. And FEMA.
(Updates at end of article describing laughter that is emerging around the ol’ internet.)
The mental giants, the phenomenal geniuses at FEMA have the following advice to survive the fallout of a nuclear explosion:
Most importantly, after the explosion, please do get indoors.
Then go the basement or interior of the building.
That’s sound advice so far.
And then?
Well, then you should
“Stay away from the outer walls and roof. Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household. Children under two years old, people who have trouble breathing, and those who are unable to remove masks on their own should not wear them.” (emphasis added)
The science changed over the weekend of February 5, 2022 so all those signs can be removed because masks aren’t needed. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.
Mask mandates are going away everywhere. It is almost as if a memo went out over the weekend of February 5, 2022 to all the people who have had their boot firmly planted on our face that they should switch to sneakers.
I’ll leave it for you to consider what has caused this radical change in ‘science’ over one weekend.
Regardless of the cause, the floodgate opened.
Consider articles describing what has happened this week:
California will lift the blanket indoor mask mandate.
New Jersey, Oregon, Connecticut, and Delaware do the same.
Nevada joins in.
Los Angeles County slightly relaxes their mask requirements.
Eight counties in the Bay Area will lift their mask mandate.
Almost fell out of my chair reading one comment in the San Francisco Chronicle article discussed below. Unidentified public health officials are arriving at a conclusion which was achieved by dozens of other states approximately 23 months ago. I will quote the article, because otherwise you would think I’m imagining this:
“…officials say they plan to ease away from legal mandates to dictate behavior and instead trust individuals to make their own health decisions, including whether and when to wear masks.”
Wow. Only took two years to make that realization. I guess that’s better than never.
Until this month, a trust-the-public attitude was prohibited, with penalty of banishment from the public square for anyone who held such a radical, heretical concept. After the weekend, trusting people to make their own decisions is suddenly acceptable.
The New Jersey and Nevada governors also made previously-heretical comments.
It may take a decade, but eventually we will be able to identify all the damage government policies caused during the pandemic. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.
Grim news emerges every few days about some aspect of how horribly the government imposed lockdowns have damaged people’s health. It is difficult to keep up with all the bad news.
My guess is it will take a decade or more for researchers to full understand the destruction willfully caused by politicians and so-called public health leaders.
A few recent articles:
Lockdowns are killing young Canadians.
Somewhere around 30,000 excess deaths from diabetes during the lockdown. “Excess deaths” means more people died that would have otherwise.
Study calculates lockdowns reduced number of reported infections but did not reduce hospitalizations and did not reduce deaths. One thing lockdowns achieved was to push poor people into the unemployment line. No lives saved. No hospitalizations avoided.
(Hint for future reference: Combine the first and second articles with the third and we have the hypothesis that lockdowns caused deaths while not preventing any deaths.)
Ridicule is effective in discussing the flaming hypocrites who hold power and ignore the rules they demand, demand, we follow.
I’m not great at sarcasm and ridicule. Takes lots of effort to gather the minimal ridicule you see on this blog. I certainly cannot generate as much humor as the loons we have in office.
Any smidgeon of humor I could muster is overshadowed by the hilarity of their dead-pan rationalizations.
(How do they hide the giggles such comments would cause? Only stand up comics have that level of skill.)
Yes, as you already guessed, I am talking about California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
First, we had British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claiming he did not know the afterhours office parties with lots of drinking were a violation of the Covid rules that no more than two people could get together in private. His laughable excuse was nobody told him those drinking parties were a violation of the Covid rules that no more than two people could get together in private.
His defense is that as an experienced politician he lacked the intellectual capacity to apply the rules to scheduled, weekly, after-hours drinking parties.
It has since emerged that two of the booze-it-up shindigs now under criminal investigation were in his private residence at 10 Downing Street.
I cannot make up ridicule stronger than just citing his comments.
And now!
Now we have Gov. Newsom and Mayor Garcetti. They are comedic geniuses. There is no way I can keep up with them.
They appeared in separate photos posted online by Magic Johnson. In one photo, Mayor Garcetti was joined by San Francisco Mayor London Breed. More photos have emerged showing Mr. Johnson with a variety of lesser elite elitists.
Of course, none of them were wearing a mask while at SoFi Stadium during the NFC championship game. Everyone at the stadium was required by both stadium rules and Los Angeles County rules to have a mask on every moment except when actively eating and drinking.
Their excuses? I could never dream up something as entertaining as their straight face explanations.
Is it possible these might be future fashion accessories for the administrators in the Oakdale, California school district? Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.
The foolishness of those who think they rule over you and me is growing week by week. The poor behavior, bad decision-making, and ill intent of those who think they have power is becoming more obvious.
The situation in the Oakdale, California school system is an emerging story. It has developed this week and the situation is deteriorating by the day. Might want to check online for current developments.
The educational wizards in the Oakdale, California schools have implemented the cold treatment for students who will not submit to the mask diktat.
On day one, an eight-year-old and another child who showed up at school without a mask were put outside in the 43° weather, unsupervised by any adult, told to do their school work outside. Did I mention the near freezing temperature?
The cold treatment goes downhill from there.
Update 2/4/22: New report claims a school employee turned the heat down. It was not a case of just not turning the heat on. A staff person intentionally removed heat when children were barricaded in the gym.
