keep your friends close but your enemies closer
Published on December 26, 2020 By Anthony R In Current Events

We've always lived as humans with the threats of illness and sickness, so its a bit of a surprise to see the establishment of police state lockdowns in the world such as in the UK, especially when there is no evidence that such extremist measures even work to save lives. Its also amusing to see the so called left, the people who are allegedly sensitive to rising fascism and authoritarianism, cowing in fear and jumping through hoops like obedient trained circus animals to be the first to demand everyone stand on marked lines and fasten masks on their faces, all at the time when most authorities have yet to earn any of our trust.


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on Jan 01, 2021

"Sure...commerce takes a hit...and that's a negative"   That's it?  Only negative is "commerce takes a hit?"  Poor and dead is OK?

"every transmittable disease is also reduced" except COVID?  If all that stuff works so great for influenza, why not for COVID?  Lots of places where COVID is rampant & flu way below norms.

on Jan 01, 2021

 "If all that stuff works so great for influenza, why not for COVID?"

One possible short answer.

Because covid is new to humans and we have no immunity to it, 

so almost everybody will get it and spread it.

 

on Jan 02, 2021

I think its basically a bad idea when obedient humans goosestep off a cliff like lemmings to the communist Chinese model of lockdown. Lets follow the advice of the communists who infected us in the first place. Sounds real smart. The parts of the US that weren't locked down like South Dakota and Florida are doing quite well compared to festering Democrat sewers like NY, and California.

on Jan 02, 2021


so almost everybody will get it and spread it.

Truer words...

on Jan 02, 2021

"The parts of the US that weren't locked down like South Dakota and Florida are doing quite well compared to festering Democrat sewers like NY, and California."

Take a look at Florida and California.

This is today's numbers.

on Jan 06, 2021

Isn't it the President's job to keep the American people safe?

on Jan 07, 2021


Isn't it the President's job to keep the American people safe?

Clearly not this one.

on Jan 12, 2021

Vile hypocrite Cuomo. I'm sure NY business will be pleased to learn that the crushing lockdowns were only designed to inflict maximum damage to the Trump administration and would end on inauguration day... provided it was evil Biden being inaugurated.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-coronavirus-lockdown-reopen-economy?fbclid=IwAR2iHPWPj5_ZMhgS0uO5dhcswjReOCQL4QT30x3xceXB7Mw_VDIxxGOuoSg

on Jan 27, 2021

If there had been no government mandated lock downs, the virus would have and the out come would have been worse.

on Jan 29, 2021


If there had been no government mandated lock downs, the virus would have and the out come would have been worse.

That remains a debatable point.

On the "Where did flu go?" question, I heard a plausible theory this week.  Posits that school closures are a major reason based on the known high degree of contagiousness of influenza among children.  Can't credit masks/distancing given COVID spread despite them.

on Jan 29, 2021


Can't credit masks/distancing given COVID spread despite them.

Yes you can.  You just need to look at places where it was [mostly] managed properly. [Australia/NZ]

The reduction in Flu transmissions is a combination of all the factors of Covid 'management'....you can't pick and choose.

England really screwed up with managing lock-downs over Xmas...and now are paying for it.

The US was always going to be in a bad way when they [mostly] considered any proper action a breach of their freedoms/rights....so 400 thousand dead.

Currently Victoria is hosting the AO with players from all over the planet coming here.  Some were bitching about the strict 14 day lockdown/quarantine ...but without it there would be no AO....and each and every one of them would have no appearance money...

on Jan 29, 2021

Clarification.  Can't credit masks/distancing for the disappearance of influenza.  School closures... maybe.

on Jan 29, 2021

Clarification. Can't presume only one part of the process was the effective bit.... not when ONLY one 'close contact' situation is a school...what about all the others that were prevented by 'social distancing' measures...ie every facet of everyday life?

Masks effect distancing by barrier.

This shouldn't be so hard to understand....

on Jan 29, 2021

People need to listen to epidemiologists ...not Trump and his injecting of Draino ...

on Jan 29, 2021

I'll let the snide pass, but you keep putting words in my mouth, Paul.  I did not use the word "only," or mention Trump or Draino.

I've also yet to hear of one epidemiologist claiming that masks &/or distancing stop flu better than COVID.

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