Those are some of the unavoidable negative side effects of a pandemic. Many people simply would stay home and avoid people (especially places with sick covid patients), lockdowns or not, early on when vaccines weren't yet available. Simply filtering everything through a very narrow funnel of "lockdown is evil" ain't very holistic, buddy.
They are not unavoidable. Public health needs to consider tradeoffs. But Fauci and others were myopic and had a singular obsession with Covid.
The Chinese government did this for sure. In a peaceful exchange of prisoners They can send us Yao Ming And we can give them Jeremy Lin to put in prison @Os Trigonum @Sweet Lou 4 2
Cancer screenings are also hard to come by when your hospital is filled to overflowing with people dying of covid.
1.1 million extra folks died from 2020-2022…. The vast majority didn’t die at home, they died in hospitals taking up resources.
We had some bed scarcity in the US in some hotspots. Perhaps more importantly, we had public health professionals who recognized that it could become a problem if covid was not addressed so they created policies to reduce the spread of covid and avoid the overburdening of the hospital system. We weren't talking about the rest of the world, but the rest of the world did the same.
Seems like the US general public disagree with that. Most rational, reasonable understood the temporary restrictions. I think if the president at the time took a serious stance on Covid, then we probably wouldn’t have gone as far. The fact that mask wearing became a political stance during a pandemic is pretty telling.
So the blank paper thing isn’t the woke d&d attempting to draw art? @Sweet Lou 4 2 @J.R. Damn the China lockdown is crazy ! Cohagen give them the air ! @Xerobull
All things considered, Sweden did much better than the US. Without lockdowns and school closures. You have to look at total excess mortality. Not just at Covid deaths. And you have to look at it over a longer period of time.
Not all of them are unavoidable. That's simply the nature of a new deadly virus and human interaction with it. Kids that lose their caregivers are going to be very sad for a long time. Some of them will also develop mental illness. And they did and continue to consider tradeoffs. It's a new virus that led to a pandemic. Of course, the experts were and continue to be obsessed with understanding it. You guys love to attack Fauci. What you probably don't realize is that it all started because Fauci dared to say something that make Trump look bad while he was POTUS. The right went after him ever since. You got wrapped into that stream because you have been so singularly myopic and obsessed with your anti-covid-restrictions. You see him as evil. He was simply a guy doing his job to the best of his ability - and yes, they do make mistakes.
There is a lot more there with Fauci. The way he tried to undermine and silence other scientists who disagreed with him. His involvement in the gain-of-function research in Wuhan in the first place. His flip-flopping on masks. Etc. etc. etc. I was actually totally on his side initially, against Trump. But he is not a saint.
