And how many more committed suicide during lock downs?
Suicide rates go down during national emergencies. COVID-19 was no exception. Certain categories increased, but overall suicide rates went down due to COVID, not up.
How many children’s learning was negatively affect by distance learning? How many developed eye-strain staring at screens all day?
You're right. Eye strain is definitely more important than millions of deaths.
How many who were going to die anyways had to die alone cuz of social distancing? And
This was the proper response by hospitals using their expertise, not something Biden demanded. Now you're literally complaining about the effect of a global pandemic, not a country's response to it.
And you can look up for yourself the developmental issues masking had on children, who rely on facial recognition to learn how to function in the world and communicate with others.
Sure, and also the children of mothers who caught COVID. When schools reopened, COVID spread like wildfire and caused just as many educational and developmental delays as entire classes were stuck at home sick. Consistently, your replies are acting like everything this pandemic did can be laid at the feet of the government that tried to respond to it, as if "no response" would mean nobody would have gotten sick, that the medical establishments (that supported government response) would have done things more to your liking.
I want to make crystal clear, COVID terrified the experts worse than it terrified the government. Those of us with advanced warning had stocked pantries before the lockdown was even someone's bright idea.
And all those who died of covid were likely going to die of covid no matter what because they had comorbities, were elderly, or were obese and no amount of masking, vaxxing, or distancing was going to stop it because none of those things have been shown to stop the spread of the virus anyways.
This is filled with lies. You realize "obese" starts at a few pounds overweight, and obese people don't deserve to die either.
And you say masks weren't effective? Studies showed community mask usage caused a 70% drop in spread.. And that's just paper/cloth masks, the weakest mask you can get. If we had enough N95's for everyone and people didn't throw fucking "let's spread COVID parties" (yes, they actually fucking did), then the death toll would have been far lower. No, YOU wearing a mask isn't going to stop YOU from getting COVID. Everyone around you wearing a mask is going to stop you from getting COVID. If you don't think that's a good reason to wear a mask, you're a selfish prick.
vaxxing, or distancing was going to stop it because none of those things have been shown to stop the spread of the virus anyways.
Natural immunity didn't happen; by the 6 month mark most COVID patients have little protection against reinfection. Terrifyingly, people are just not keeping immunity to COVID. SOMETHING stopped the spread of the virus. And it wasn't something natural. Had no action been taken, COVID would have as many cases and casualties now as it did in 2020. Vaccines pushed the immunity rate to the magic 97% mark, where "herd immunity" starts to overcome the spread rate. Of course, now that people aren't getting boosters, the spread rate is going up. Luckily the new mutations don't spread as well as the original.
Its clear you’ve spent the last 3 years with your head buried in the sand
Would you have the balls to tell that to specialists who specialize in pandemic response? Prove you're not a troll, and admit that if the supermajority of actual experts disagree with you, maybe you're the one in the wrong.
Yeah, it is only a couple million deaths and several million cases of long covid. /s
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Your answer to that question is no, apparently
Suicide rates go down during national emergencies. COVID-19 was no exception. Certain categories increased, but overall suicide rates went down due to COVID, not up.
You're right. Eye strain is definitely more important than millions of deaths.
This was the proper response by hospitals using their expertise, not something Biden demanded. Now you're literally complaining about the effect of a global pandemic, not a country's response to it.
Sure, and also the children of mothers who caught COVID. When schools reopened, COVID spread like wildfire and caused just as many educational and developmental delays as entire classes were stuck at home sick. Consistently, your replies are acting like everything this pandemic did can be laid at the feet of the government that tried to respond to it, as if "no response" would mean nobody would have gotten sick, that the medical establishments (that supported government response) would have done things more to your liking.
I want to make crystal clear, COVID terrified the experts worse than it terrified the government. Those of us with advanced warning had stocked pantries before the lockdown was even someone's bright idea.
This is filled with lies. You realize "obese" starts at a few pounds overweight, and obese people don't deserve to die either.
And you say masks weren't effective? Studies showed community mask usage caused a 70% drop in spread.. And that's just paper/cloth masks, the weakest mask you can get. If we had enough N95's for everyone and people didn't throw fucking "let's spread COVID parties" (yes, they actually fucking did), then the death toll would have been far lower. No, YOU wearing a mask isn't going to stop YOU from getting COVID. Everyone around you wearing a mask is going to stop you from getting COVID. If you don't think that's a good reason to wear a mask, you're a selfish prick.
Natural immunity didn't happen; by the 6 month mark most COVID patients have little protection against reinfection. Terrifyingly, people are just not keeping immunity to COVID. SOMETHING stopped the spread of the virus. And it wasn't something natural. Had no action been taken, COVID would have as many cases and casualties now as it did in 2020. Vaccines pushed the immunity rate to the magic 97% mark, where "herd immunity" starts to overcome the spread rate. Of course, now that people aren't getting boosters, the spread rate is going up. Luckily the new mutations don't spread as well as the original.
Would you have the balls to tell that to specialists who specialize in pandemic response? Prove you're not a troll, and admit that if the supermajority of actual experts disagree with you, maybe you're the one in the wrong.