No Return to Arbitrary COVID-19 Lockdowns, Mandates

By no means once more.

That must be the unflinching reply to the rising calls in some circles to convey again masks mandates and lockdowns amid the present COVID-19 variant wave.

Don’t suppose there aren’t some circles that aren’t deeply invested in returning to the medical lockdown state.

President Joe Biden has requested extra funding for a brand new COVID-19 vaccine, and whereas the administration has insisted {that a} new spherical of lockdowns isn’t coming, taking it at its phrase could be a foul wager.

Keep in mind, Biden tried to foist an unconstitutional nationwide vaccine mandate on the nation not way back. They’ll do what they suppose they will get away with politically.

With a spike in new COVID-19 instances, anticipate these debates to ramp up once more.

“The U.S. is seeing a late-summer spike in COVID instances, prompting some faculties, hospitals and companies to encourage—and even require—folks to begin masking up once more,” reported NPR, which listed a few of the hospitals, faculties, and companies which have introduced again masks mandates.

The checklist is rising, regardless of an enormous quantity of information exhibiting that masks mandates merely don’t work.

I’ve already had COVID-19 throughout this wave. Thanks, China. Would I’ve taken drastic measures to cease it from occurring in addition to what I already do? Completely not. It’s extraordinarily contagious, and it’s going to burn via the inhabitants, vaccines and boosters or not.

It’s fantastic to take private precautions. In case you are nonetheless carrying a masks outside, then you’re a lifer and doubtless wouldn’t do something totally different anyway. However the concept of going again to masks mandates, vaccine passports, and economically catastrophic lockdowns is completely unacceptable.

My feeling is that that is the place most Individuals are lately.

Right here’s one thing else: We all know much more about COVID-19 now. It’s clear that most of the lockdown measures and masks mandates didn’t actually do a lot of something to cease the unfold.

“Observe the science” was actually “comply with the arbitrary choice of a bureaucrat.”

There have been indicators on the time that the “treatment” for COVID-19 was worse than the illness. But, most of the voices calling for a unique strategy had been railroaded into silence.

Just a few accountable leaders refused to buckle to the misguided “scientific-technological elite” and adopted a wiser course, however they had been usually outliers. So, we engaged in an enormous experiment of societal lockdown. The outcomes had been each fruitless and horrible.

A Johns Hopkins College evaluation present in early 2022 that “lockdowns throughout Europe and the U.S. lowered the COVID-19 mortality by 0.2%.” It additionally discovered that “shelter-in-place orders had been ineffective, decreasing mortality by solely 2.9%.”

Now, contemplate the immense particular person and societal value of lockdowns and mandates. Nervousness, melancholy, and alcohol abuse skyrocketed on account of isolation.

Maybe most damaging of all was the impact of the lockdowns on kids. College closures in the course of the lockdowns resulted in generational studying loss. Because of lecturers unions, bureaucrats, and misguided politicians, many of those kids will completely stay behind academically.

The worst a part of all is that—as conservatives warned—many of those measures had been arbitrary and used as a instrument for censorship. The federal authorities coordinated with Large Tech to silence anybody who criticized the official line concerning the vaccines or what was imagined to be executed concerning the pandemic.

In some instances, authorities officers outright lied to the American folks.

That occurred whereas mass civil unrest and riots had been going down throughout the nation. You had been instructed to remain in your house and preserve quiet whereas a mob burned down your corporation and trashed your group.

The entire thing appeared like a check run for tyranny.

I’m guessing—and I’d definitely hope—that the small rebellions in opposition to mandates and lockdowns final time could be rather more intense this time round. 

Republican presidential main candidates have primarily mentioned that they received’t have interaction in mandates and lockdowns once more. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin declared that masks mandates received’t occur in his state, and I’m certain many different GOP governors will comply with swimsuit.

Individuals are warier of the results of lockdowns and mandates than the final time round. I believe the powers that be know that, and they are going to be extra cautious about testing what they will get away with (although they undoubtedly will).

Right here’s an necessary query: What if it’s one thing else? What if there’s one other pandemic or well being menace, and we’re once more instructed to only “belief the science” and fork over our liberties to a brand new batch of Anthony Faucis?

That would be the actual check case for whether or not we’ve discovered our lesson from 2020. If we’ve got, then we must not ever once more enable the arbitrary biomedical state to make wide-scale selections for our society.

The US was conceived in liberty with a basis in self-government. Let’s not additional abandon that legacy.

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