1. What's with excess death at younger ages in the U.S.? 2. Local politics is not where you'll find answers to COVID responses. 3. When contrary views make you think COVID is important when it's not.
I've concurred with your final points almost from day one of this debacle. The Barrington people were correct. Nuanced measures to protect the elderly and other at-risk cohorts, while letting everybody else get on with life would've achieved far better outcomes.
Instead, entire societies were crushed and imprisoned regardless of risk, lives disrupted, businesses destroyed and massive debt incurred, while horrible people in big Pharma and elsewhere made huge profits. The estimates of Covid support fraud worldwide are astounding.
In my own case, my brilliant young son wanted to do a PhD in physics, but his studies were so disrupted in first year that he dropped out and now works at a gym. He'll never get that doctorate, and he and the country are poorer for it.
Historians will equate these times to "The Crazy Years" of science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, and they'll be right.
I've concurred with your final points almost from day one of this debacle. The Barrington people were correct. Nuanced measures to protect the elderly and other at-risk cohorts, while letting everybody else get on with life would've achieved far better outcomes.
Instead, entire societies were crushed and imprisoned regardless of risk, lives disrupted, businesses destroyed and massive debt incurred, while horrible people in big Pharma and elsewhere made huge profits. The estimates of Covid support fraud worldwide are astounding.
In my own case, my brilliant young son wanted to do a PhD in physics, but his studies were so disrupted in first year that he dropped out and now works at a gym. He'll never get that doctorate, and he and the country are poorer for it.
Historians will equate these times to "The Crazy Years" of science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, and they'll be right.