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I didn't say "gain control". You said that and put it in quotes. Public health leaders, such as Debbie Birx, believed that the ends justified the means, and k
by JPKab 3y ago
I didn't say "gain control". You said that and put it in quotes.
Public health leaders, such as Debbie Birx, believed that the ends justified the means, and knowingly obfuscated the risk stratification by age in a cynical effort to get younger people to comply with lockdowns out of self preservation.
She wrote about this in her book, and also wrote that she and her colleagues KNEW that "2 weeks to flatten the curve" was a white lie, because otherwise the public would never have agreed to lockdowns in the first place.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoIsn't that the point? If we let everyone catch it 'naturally', the young, then it would be impossible to isolate the groups at risk. Everyone seems to decry the lockdown, but if it was allowed to spread naturally, to all the young and healthy, then how would you prevent all the old teachers from getting it? Partial isolation in our world is impossible. I think you are cherry picking from her a little, at the time people were not listening at all, so being extra scary, and end-justifying to save people probably did occur to some as ok. But her saying there was a 'white lie' isn't a gatcha, there was a conspiracy, it doesn't mean suddenly the entire endeavor was wrong, we should do nothing, no lockdowns, let it spread.