re: Let’s recall Covid hysteria - OT edition

1200 pages is a little too much to scroll through so I apologize for anything ridiculous I said.

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Maybe, but there was a point pretty early on where we understood the virus. (And the Fauci Diary releases show that it was no where near as bad as we were lead to believe). But petty tyrants decided to close businesses and keep children masked anyway, and the Facebook Karens rejoiced as they wagged their fingers and scolded everyone else.

Add to that the constantly moving goalposts where “two weeks to flatten the curve” became “hospitalizations are too high” which was then replaced by “cases” as the metric to reopen the country.

Now we have people acting like lockdowns never happened. Like the government didn’t send SWAT teams after people walking in the wilderness by themselves.

“Lockdowns? What do you mean? You mean the two weeks we got to stay home and watch Tiger King?”

And then our government tried to force everyone who wanted to work and provide for their families to take a vaccine that they didn’t want and didn’t need.

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This is my issue with it. Sure, there were overreactions on both sides, but the side with the most overreactions ended up being the side that was almost completely wrong about everything...and the side that pretends that it wasn't a big deal with the bullshite that the government and local governments were pulling. It wasn't long at all before graphs came out showing the exact same infection/spread rate between masked areas and unmasked areas, yet we still had to wear stupid fricking masks for over a year afterward. And the :get the vaccine or you can't go out in public."

That stupid totalitarian shite was real, but people seem to pretend now that it's an exaggeration. It's infuriating how soon society, as a whole, forgets just how bad and dumb that shite was. I mean they wanted to make you go one way down grocery aisles. They made you wear a mask when you walked into a restaurant, but not at your table. They said certain public things (restaurants, bars, etc.) had to close but others (casinos) could be open. None of it made any logical sense whatsoever. Yet we still had to abide by a lot of that bullshite anyway for political and power reasons.

Then you have people in the media and the "science" communities spouting off bullshite that was blatant lying. Someone like Fauci should be prosecuted (in the US) for the shite he pulled.

The gist of it to me is that initially, sure let's take some precautions. But once people in power got a taste for basically ubiquitous and unlimited power, it went off the rails very quickly and they didn't want to let go of that power. And that led us down some insanely stupid paths. And that should never be forgotten.

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The covidians hate us purebloods

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Some people find a sense of belonging and a sense of identity in the strangest and most random shite.

If you're that desperately seeking these things, go to church!

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think hindsight is affecting this take a bit.

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You can read all my posts in that thread. You don’t have to trust me. It’s not hindsight on my part.

I've been right about a lot of things but I've never been more right about anything than i was about covid

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They made you wear a mask when you walked into a restaurant, but not at your table.

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Of all the stupid, illogical rules, I think this one gets a bad rap. It wasn't stupid or illogical; it was just incorrect. At the time, we believed that covid spread via liquids, so people were told to wear masks while walking through the restaurant (potentially talking) so their saliva wouldn't land on people/plates/etc. Now, it turns out that was wrong, and covid could spread as an aerosol, so the masks while walking through the restaurant served no purpose, as it could still spread just as easily through the air when seated. But in a paradigm in which people were working with imperfect information, it wasn't an unreasonable compromise between letting restaurants operate business as usual and forcing restaurants to shut down entirely.

Plenty of other dumb shite to point out, but I don't think this one should be lumped in with that.

The truth is the severity of the situation is somewhere between the extremes people were espousing.

It wasn't going to kill all of us and masks didn't do much, if anything. Most of the world could easily handle getting that virus and fully recover.

It also wasn't the common cold that we shouldn't take seriously because there were, early on before mutations, a lot of deaths and severe illnesses in at risk populations. And it was very contagious.

Hindsight, we should've just focused on those populations and isolating them and let the rest of the world be free.

I think looking back, I also really get mad thinking about how long they let this hysteria last despite conclusive data around the virus mortality rate dropping precipitously as it mutated. It eventually DID become something akin to the common cold and they kept up with the shenanigans.

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You can read all my posts in that thread. You don’t have to trust me. It’s not hindsight on my part.

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I don't think so. Not because I'm not interested in what you said, but I don't have the time to comb through 400+ pages for ell_13 posts.

2020 sucked. It was such a weird time to be alive. From the shutdowns, quarantine, the mask hysteria, the vaccine hysteria, the crap ton of people who died, etc.

I would really prefer to not go through that again.

Pure blood here along with all my family