Has the Lockdown Worked?
PJ Media,
by
Dennis Prager
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/14/2020 11:58:46 PM
Why are governments the world over rendering hundreds of millions of their citizens jobless, impoverishing at least a billion people, endangering the family life of millions (straining marriages, increasing child and spousal abuse, and further postponing marriage among young people), bankrupting vast numbers of business owners and workers living paycheck to paycheck, and increasing suicides?
The reason given is that we must lock down virtually all human social and economic activity in order to prevent millions of people from dying of the coronavirus and overwhelming hospitals.
But is it true? Was this lockdown necessary?
In order to answer these questions, we need to know how many people would have died from COVID-19
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/15/2020 1:19:06 AM (No. 379956)
The lockdown kings and queens will never, ever, ever, ever admit they destroyed the economy for no good reason, other than "I'm the boss" and orange man bad.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/15/2020 1:24:54 AM (No. 379959)
It's all part of the plan. Get millions of people dependent on the government, wipe out the middle class, and keep the dependents happy playing XBox, playing on social media, smoking pot and eating at McDonalds.
It's not 1984. It's A Brave New World.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/15/2020 1:50:49 AM (No. 379971)
Kinda like not taking up smoking. Not everybody who smoke gets cancer or emphisema. I don't have cancer or emphisema.....I am pretty darned sure I improved my life by never smoking.
Can I prove it? Nope can't prove what never happened.
We can't ever prove how many would have died without social distancing, more sanitizing, and all that other stuff, unfortunately.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/15/2020 4:29:38 AM (No. 379996)
The lockdown has certainly worked for the demonrats to destroy the economy, get citizens used to a Soviet style rule with demonrat jackboots, and to destroy the Bill of Rights - all to usher in their wet dream of a communist paradise.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NotaBene 4/15/2020 5:16:29 AM (No. 380013)
Governments are unemploying millions because they fear what the Socialists might say if someone expires it would be unforgivable. Me, I am flexible and understanding of Vice-President Biden when he enjoys playing the Scent of a Woman or stinky pinky. Who would’nt? On the other hand, the 1,500 million Dollars given to Hunter and Ketchup’s stepson by the Chinese Communist Party seem to be political corruption at its Apex. Communists of the world, enjoy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hotcorner 4/15/2020 6:21:42 AM (No. 380029)
"Mr. President, tear down this wall."
Ronald Reagan
“It’s all for nothing - if you don’t have freedom”
William Wallace
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
franq 4/15/2020 7:46:57 AM (No. 380093)
Indeed, #3. You can't prove a negative so the experts can claim the lockdown did anything they desire.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 4/15/2020 1:55:55 PM (No. 380546)
#7, exactly so. Like any "safety habit", like keeping a fire extinguisher, wearing your seat belts, buying best quality tires, etc. most of these things may help us be safer, but it's impossible to prove exactly HOW much safer.
Just the nature of risks which were successfully avoided.
BUT, we have to keep the "cost of avoidance" reasonable. If the number of deaths would have actually been the 2.2 million dead in the USA that some models predicted, no question (IMO) that this displacement was worth avoiding that. If that number was BS, an extremely inaccurate model, which seems more and more likely, seemingly now approaching a certainty, then the calculation of "was it worth it" gets more difficult.
Is saving 1,000,000 lives "worth it"?
Is saving 500,000 lives "worth it"?
Is saving 200,000 lives "worth it"?
Is saving 100,000 lives "worth it"?
Is saving 50,000 lives "worth it"?
Is saving 10,000 lives "worth it"?
Is saving 1,000 lives "worth it"?
Different people will say YES at different levels. Pretty easy if the number is 2.2 million. Absolutely NOT worth it to save 1,000 lives, IMO. In that massive yawing gap.....three orders of magnitude, lies the difficulty in understanding this mess.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 4/15/2020 5:21:35 PM (No. 380768)
Oh, yeah, the boring, impersona numbers are easy.
But what if one is your brother, sister, uncle, father, mother or son, or daughter?
A whole 'nother calculation.
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Has it worked? No, but it certainly has angered a lot of people.
Rebelllion. Civil disobediance. Boston Tea Pary 2020. Armed rebellion if it comes to that.
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