How did the entire planet muck this up so bad?

Feb 3, 2022, 10:26 AM

I don't think it's ever happened in world history where the entire world screwed up a response so badly. Shutting down the entire global economy and national lockdowns were the absolute worst thing we could have done. Studies are now showing us that the lockdowns had minimal if any positive impact, but the negative impacts have been enormous in suicides, divorce, and mental illness. The social cost will prove to have been extremely high once all is said and done and sane and objective heads are allowed to dive into this to see the true impact.

I can get how one nation can overreact, or even all of the former EU, for example. But the entire world?? How did that happen?? Was it the input and influence of the WHO that drove the paranoia and fear-mongering? That's the only thing I can figure. The WHO made a recommendation and gave a forecast and initial impression of the situation and everyone blindly followed (everyone except, thankfully, some US states and a very few nations).

The mental health crisis, the supply chain crisis, inflation, unemployment, national debt - all can be traced directly back to the lockdowns and the shutdown of the global economy.

I just hope we'll learn some lessons from this and not ever react the same way again.

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Pretty simple reason. They thought it could be deadlier. You can't just wing in their minds, because they have a job to do. There have been 6+ million deaths on Earth, but they thought it would be worse. ALso, there have been millions upon millions of people that were deathly ill. I agree you with you though. I complained while it was happening that they shouldn't shut everything down here in the US. We just saw the deaths and what was happening in Italy and similar places where they have an old population wand we were careful. It wouldn't have mattered too much what we would have done anyway, because the rest of the world shut down. China is still shutting down areas and they are way stricter than we are. Same with India. They couldn't even keep up with bodies in India. Everyone is still learning the proper approach. Shutting down on such a massive scale doesn't seem to be the proper approach. I never thought it was. Every state had different rules anyway.

How did the entire planet muck this up so bad?

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