The narrative now goes something like this: Lockdowns never really happened, because governments never actually locked people in their homes; but if there were lockdowns, then they saved millions of lives and would have saved even more if only they’d been stricter; but if there were any collateral damage, then that damage was an inevitable consequence of the fear from the virus independent of the lockdowns; and even when things were shut down, the rules weren’t very strict; but even when the rules were strict, we didn’t really support them.
Put simply, the prevailing narrative of the mainstream left is that any upside from the response to Covid is attributable to the state-ordered closures and mandates that they supported, while any downside was an inevitable consequence of the virus independent of any state-ordered closures and mandates which never happened and which anyway they never supported. Got it? Good.
and just as important, i put my slippers on this morning so the sun will rise, if i hadnt we would have been in real trouble!
Yep. Lockdown’s permanently eliminated my husband’s job forcing us to give up our home and move to a (much) less affluent area but THANK THE GODS that happened because millions of lives were saved because of it. Of course, there is literally no way to measure how many people did not die but please ignore that….