re: Fauci admits social distancing was basically on a whim.

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The massive amount of stupidity and lack of common sense on display during the COVID scare was more frightening to me than the disease.

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I don't blame normal people as much as I blame media and the medical establishment for it. I remember MSNBC was doing stories about how they were planning to use Central Park for a mass gravesite and were pulling out pews from old churches to make coffins. It scared the crap out of the more gullible types and many of them have never recovered.

The medical people also put tens of thousands on ventilators unnecessarily, put COVID patients *into nursing homes* (seriously in NY and NJ they deliberately put covid patients into homes and wiped out entire floors of elderly all while repurposed convention centers with hundreds of beds were empty), never seemed to express any interest in finding treatments besides ventilators and waiting for a vaccine, and worst of all shredded their credibility by telling people to stay indoors but go outside to riot and protest and then go back to staying indoors. The whole thing was absurd.

My only blame on the public is that by the summer we could see the fatality rate was nowhere near what it was modeled to be and the panic should have ended, but it didn't.