The Worldwide Lockdown May Be
the Greatest Mistake in History
Real Clear Politics,
by
Dennis Prager
Original Article
Posted By: EQKimball,
5/8/2020 6:28:14 PM
The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country other than Sweden may have been an enormous mistake... (Snip) One of the thousands of unpaid garment workers protesting the lockdown in Bangladesh understands the situation better than almost any health official in the world: "We are starving. If we don't have food in our stomach, what's the use of observing this lockdown?" But concern for that Bangladeshi worker among the world's elites seems nonexistent.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/8/2020 6:39:25 PM (No. 405404)
The very most important lesson we have learned is that Obama must play golf no matter what or who is locked down and that above all else Nancy Pelosi must have her freezer stocked full of gourmet ice cream. Everyone else can kiss their arses.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissGrits 5/8/2020 6:49:27 PM (No. 405412)
Ya think?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NYbob 5/8/2020 6:56:49 PM (No. 405419)
It will be worse than the planners thought. I hope the incredible pain of billions will force a reckoning that uncovers ALL the players behind this. Of course the Chinese, but also their allies around the world who went along with the outbreak and then used it to further their agendas. IF Gates, drug companies, communists and progressives manipulated this, the payback should be equal to the misery caused by playing with bio-weapons.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 5/8/2020 7:06:39 PM (No. 405426)
fta: There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself
The forced, intentional, willful continued destruction of the economy you mean. The global death toll due to this intentional economic destruction will never be counted. Famine and starvation, suicide, murder. Prager refuses to call it evil... but I don't!! The elites who gleefully revel in their power, who don't care about the ramifications of their decisions, they are evil people. They look at the world and say "You and your babies may starve to death but at at least you didn't get Covid! You're welcome! "
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bassman 5/8/2020 7:21:18 PM (No. 405440)
It's going to be painful for a while, but exposing China will hopefully be worth it in the long run.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
radrelic 5/8/2020 7:22:28 PM (No. 405442)
An unprovable hypothetical of deceitful political operatives? Instead of second guessing this pandemic and its dynamics it may be more beneficial to follow the 1917-19 Swine flu epidemic. That which happened .
Covid more in the big cities than in the backwaters where I am. (for now)
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
joew9 5/8/2020 8:28:42 PM (No. 405467)
The government bureaucrats and health care workers are all remaining employed and well fed. I suggest we start feeding them heavily on grain for a few weeks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
sanspeur 5/8/2020 9:36:50 PM (No. 405485)
The world's greatest mistake ? to
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
texaspast 5/8/2020 10:48:25 PM (No. 405504)
I'm not sure it ranks up there with Hitler attacking Russia to make a two-front war,or on a par with Japan attacking Pearl Harbor, but it is up there close.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
texaspast 5/8/2020 10:49:52 PM (No. 405505)
. . . or Eve believing the snake, or Adam believing Eve, but yeah . . .
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/8/2020 11:13:34 PM (No. 405515)
The boy who cried wolf, writ large... EXTRA large.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
judy 5/9/2020 5:25:34 AM (No. 405627)
19 states never closed. The re-opening is highly opposed by dems & the media..what do the democrat governors think they are accomplishing by keeping their states closed???
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
franq 5/9/2020 7:58:43 AM (No. 405723)
Just heard PA governor Tom "Cry" Wolf just extended the lockdown. My wife speaks to her sister often and they are miserable. Glad we left, but NC is nothing to boast about right now either.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/9/2020 8:34:59 AM (No. 405761)
#12 I gotta believe the dims/media are trying to keep the economy oppressed as that is Trump's strongest suit. They think the Federal Government will keep rolling out the payments so what harm is being done, except to Trump?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 5/9/2020 9:16:49 PM (No. 406507)
The Corona Panic certainly vies for the top spot with other examples of massive swallowing of totalitarian propaganda. - the rise of Hitler. Stalin, and Mao; the explosive growth of Islam's jihad against civilization. It's all basically the same lesson that people need to re-learn over and over again. Fear empowers despots.
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Historians will be writing about the lockdown long after Covid, the comparative mouse that caused an elephant stampede.