Dödligt virus från Kina orsakar panik (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19)

Exposing the Fantasy: How Lockdowns, Masks, and Fear Made the Dying Much Worse

Exhibit L: How lockdowns bring death to the vulnerable.

The fantasy of lockdowns is that they flatten the curve.

That is just plain wrong. You saw the real-world data with your own eyes. Death from respiratory viruses follow a cyclical seasonal pattern. You can't stretch the season. You can only blunt the top of the peak by transferring infections to the next season. COVID, like all other coronaviruses and influenza, is seasonal.

We used lockdowns to slow the spread of the virus. We now have two whole seasons behind us, but thanks to lockdowns slowing down the spread among the healthy and the least vulnerable, the community at large has still not achieved herd immunity. This means that the vulnerable are still trapped behind locked doors, either in institutions or at home. And they are still at risk of catching the virus from every single community member they encounter, 15 months in and no end in sight. "Flatten the curve" was just a noble-sounding euphemism for "keep the vulnerable at risk for more than 15 months by preventing the community from building a protective ring of natural herd immunity around them."

Yet if the government had followed the pandemic planning guidelines and provided focused protection for the vulnerable, while allowing the virus to spread among the rest of society as the winter flu does every winter, then the vulnerable would have been able to get back to their lives after 6 to 8 weeks of carefully guarding their doors.