While we should all still blame and ultimately hold China accountable for zero heads up on the Chinese virus leaving from Wuhan, China, we have now come to find out that we could have saved most people from dieing with one, single, solitary thing - protecting old people in institutional settings and practically little else. That's it! Period. End! Stop!
Based on latest data, i.e. updated figures from CDC and around the world, we have learned that the infection rate is much higher than previously thought and the absolute #1 worst thing you could possibly do is to put Covid positive patients into an old people's presence, much less a retirement facility. This begs the obvious question: Are Governors Inslee, Cuomo and Murphy going to hold hands while they leap from the top of the Empire State building?
BTW: We would still have record low unemployment and a rip'n economy with just a small mess on the pavement below the Empire State building.
A very good article worth reading in it's entirety. Please do.
How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns
In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked.
That is the story of what may eventually be known as one of the biggest medical and economic blunders of all time. The collective failure of every Western nation, except one, to question groupthink will surely be studied by economists, doctors, and psychologists for decades to come.
To put things in perspective, the virus is now known to have an infection fatality rate for most people under 65 that is no more dangerous than driving 13 to 101 miles per day. Even by conservative estimates, the odds of COVID-19 death are roughly in line with existing baseline odds of dying in any given year...
...Yet we put billions of young healthy people under house arrest, stopped cancer screenings, and sunk ourselves into the worst level of unemployment since the Great Depression. This from a virus that bears a survival rate of 99.99% if you are a healthy individual under 50 years old (1, 2).
New York City reached over a 25% infection rate and yet 99.98% of all people in the city under 45 survived, making it comparable to death rates by normal accidents...
Hope they LiveStream Governors Inslee, Cuomo, Murphy and Xi Xiping holding hands while they leap from the top of the Empire State building