> enforcing actual lockdowns I don't know if you read or understood my comment, but the self-inflicted wounds I describe such as stress, lack of exercise, bad

> enforcing actual lockdowns I don't know if you read or understood my comment, but the self-inflicted wounds I describe such as stress, lack of exercise, bad diets, and other problems associated with "long-covid" may be at least partially due to lockdowns. If this is the case, your prescribed solution may exacerbate the problems. A controlled study on this would be interesting. > The differences in coronavirus-caused interruptions between countries with solid leadership and a societal sense of solidarity (e.g. New Zealand, but also many Asian countries for the better part of the last year) and right-wing populist-led or -influenced countries such as the US, Brazil or most of Europe can't be denied any more. Without getting into a full-on political debate about the merits of freedom and a good economy's role in preserving vulnerable peoples' lives, I'd like to point out that Covid's effects in different countries may have more than 1 variable that no leader could have solved. For instance: * As a relatively isolated island nation, New Zealand had the luxury to lockdown in a way that relatively few nations have. * Compared to most of the world and especially Asia, Americans are heavier, which seems likely to negatively impact outcomes from this illness. * America has large populations of people who suffer from Vitamin D deficiency that seems linked to Covid problems that other countries do not have. > Simple: I don't want to engage with right wing people and conspiracy myth spreaders in the meatspace and I want to do the same online. Fair enough. Personally, I believe in diversity and diverse ideas and would be interested in engaging with the left, right, middle, libertarian, communist, you name it. Even authoritarians too.