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>The point of the lockdown was not to entirely stop the spread... That claim is pretty inconsistent with the marketing slogans and messaging about the purpose

>The point of the lockdown was not to entirely stop the spread... That claim is pretty inconsistent with the marketing slogans and messaging about the purpose of the lockdowns. Similarly, the vaccines turned out to be ineffective for inducing sterilizing immunity, but good for diminishing the severity of symptoms, which would also result in fewer sick people in hospitals. But again, the marketing and messaging around the purpose and intent was completely incongruent with the reality, seemingly intentionally deceptive at times. If you didn't take the vaccine, you were literally killing and holding everyone else back because the vaccine would ostensibly make you immune and prevent the spread. The biggest failure of Covid was the disingenuous communication.

pfdietz 3y ago
The problem with communicating is a substantial fraction of the US population does not have their mental receivers tuned to reality.
giardini 3y ago
VoodooJuJu says "The biggest failure of Covid was the disingenuous communication." "Disengenuous communication" is a vague term. I think rather that the biggest failure in the USA was for the government to intercede at all and to adopt protocols that delayed immediate treatment. By delay of treatment I mean that the protocol doctors were instructed (and later forced to use) was: 1. Tell the patient to stay at home (do NOT visit the doctors' offices) until (s)he can barely breathe and to then 2. Go to the hospital where they can hook you up to a ventilator and where you will die, Rather than 3. immediately prescribe hydroxychloroquine (or ivermectin, or other...) and antibiotics (to prevent secondary infection, not the Covid virus) for home use, and go to the hospital only if it gets significantly worse. Countries who jumped immediately to 3 had far fewer fatalities (indeed, far fewer hospitalizations) than the USA, who followed the steps 1-2 (and omitted 3 or did 3 in a hospital setting far too late to work), above. Consequently the USA suffered extremely high Covid deaths: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usa+covid+deaths+more+than+other+countries https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usa+covid+deaths+more+than+other+c... Even worse, it appears that the USA "powers that be" did that to justify established institutions and corporations who stood to make billions of dollars creating not-yet-existent (and later incompletely tested) vaccines instead of providing cheap and effective treatments that were readily available and that worked.

pfdietz 3y ago

The problem with communicating is a substantial fraction of the US population does not have their mental receivers tuned to reality.

giardini 3y ago

VoodooJuJu says "The biggest failure of Covid was the disingenuous communication." "Disengenuous communication" is a vague term. I think rather that the biggest failure in the USA was for the government to intercede at all and to adopt protocols that delayed immediate treatment. By delay of treatment I mean that the protocol doctors were instructed (and later forced to use) was: 1. Tell the patient to stay at home (do NOT visit the doctors' offices) until (s)he can barely breathe and to then 2. Go to the hospital where they can hook you up to a ventilator and where you will die, Rather than 3. immediately prescribe hydroxychloroquine (or ivermectin, or other...) and antibiotics (to prevent secondary infection, not the Covid virus) for home use, and go to the hospital only if it gets significantly worse. Countries who jumped immediately to 3 had far fewer fatalities (indeed, far fewer hospitalizations) than the USA, who followed the steps 1-2 (and omitted 3 or did 3 in a hospital setting far too late to work), above. Consequently the USA suffered extremely high Covid deaths: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usa+covid+deaths+more+than+other+countries https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usa+covid+deaths+more+than+other+c... Even worse, it appears that the USA "powers that be" did that to justify established institutions and corporations who stood to make billions of dollars creating not-yet-existent (and later incompletely tested) vaccines instead of providing cheap and effective treatments that were readily available and that worked.