There are literally billions of other problems in society beyond “reducing covid transmission”. Lockdowns forced a myopic focus on exactly one problem to the exclusion of virtually all other problems.

Why was “reducing transmission” so much more important than providing children a sanctuary from abusers at home by way of open schools? Why was “reducing transmission” a greater problem to solve for than “elderly dying alone in an assisted living facility”.

Your study is a perfect example of the extremely myopic focus on COVID. It was as if absolutely nothing else was allowed to be a priority.

Also I’m curious, if this paper is true why did Florida or Sweden not have dead bodies lining the streets? They either ended their lockdowns earlier than most or didn’t have them at all? Did Florida feed them all to the gators? Was there a hidden “mass death” in Sweden I wasn’t aware of?

Or perhaps is “reduced transmission” not a good metric?

What was the upshot/benefit of this "reduced transmission" which was purchased at enormous cost? Everyone eventually got COVID anyway. How many deaths were actually prevented rather than delayed?

There will be no answer to that. These experts played fast and loose with the data and honestly I don’t trust any of it.

And honestly the Science and Data really doesn’t matter. It was unethical and immoral to boot. Even if it had legitimate science and data backing it doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.

People try to drag us into the weeds with their “studies” and “papers” and links to half-assed broken data sources to derail us… the more powerful argument is from ethics and morals. And from plain old common sense, really.

I don’t even think they are being intentional. As I said elsewhere people went feral and shut off the critical thinking and intellectual curiosity parts of their brain. They’ll latch onto any scary data or paper that attempts to validate / rationalize their crazy behavior. It’s just basic human stuff.

> And honestly the Science and Data really doesn’t matter

> shut off the critical thinking and intellectual curiosity parts

Seems like you should be directing this comment at yourself.

Nope. It would have been much easier to “fall in line” and “take covid serious” than to dare tread into non-dogmatic thinking like I did. Then I wouldn’t have pissed off my friends and family. Then I’d still have a good career and good network. My life would have been very much easier to fall in line like the good little west coast liberal caste I was set into.

But you know what? Fuck those people. They are wrong. And so are you. None of our response to Covid made any sense at all. The math never made sense. And it never will. All your “science” and “data” amount to nothing but a pile of appeals to authority. And even then it was the layer of tribal politics that really sealed in the multi-year mass hysteria.

Pull your head out of your ass and it’s clear as day. None of it adds up. Sorry. You are quite simply, wrong. Wake up dude. You got tricked. You are wrong.

By the time most people in Canada got COVID, they were already vaccinated. That was the whole point of limiting transmission. The let it rippers were saying that the old people should just stay in their retirement homes, not understanding that most people at high risk live with others who are working or are working themselves.