I wonder what this country would be like now IF....

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Re: I wonder what this country would be like now IF....

Dec 13, 2022, 10:12 AM

You ask a great question. The op-ed below hits on the same topic.

Some excerpts:

Are you noticing a pattern? Prior to COVID, everything worked. After COVID, every industry is struggling to meet customer needs. Businesses have people waiting in line to give them money but are unable to provide the services those customers want to buy. Don't they want the money?
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Systems operating near their full capacity are sensitive to minor problems. Small glitches can cause major disruptions — because there's no reserve capacity to respond to problems. Traffic at rush hour can go from heavy but moving to complete gridlock — because a motorist on the shoulder is experiencing a mechanical problem. Everything runs smooth as long as nothing goes wrong. But it takes only one flat tire for thousands to experience a frustrating commute home.
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If power cycling our engine of commerce breaks it, how much damage is done when our leaders mindlessly fiddle with the dials?

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/12/the_commercial_impacts_of_covid_will_last_for_years.html

The Commercial Impacts of COVID Will Last for Years

Have you noticed that things have changed in our country over the last three years?

In 2019, my truck broke down. I got it into the shop the next day to be fixed. In 2022, I needed a mechanic to service the brakes on one of o...

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I can see it being both very bad, but also a much quicker spike.

As for everything else? Today's economic and social woes are 100% connected to the shutdowns, and whatever body count there would have been had better been astronomical because the shockwaves of shutdown have been severe and broad.

The economic ones are obvious, but it should be no surprise that when service industry jobs shut down for so long, that the people they employed lost a major source of pride (and income stream) that kept them off the streets. Is it just a coincidence that the crime uptick came around the time of COVID?

What we're hearing about the education gap from Public Ed is probably only half the story, given Randi Weingarten and the teachers' unions were the primary evil-doers of keeping kids out of the class. They don't want to take ownership of that, and the schools will do their best to cover it up.

And then there is the mental health aspects -- much more pronounced in kids/teens.

So yeah. Would we have seen mass casualties and a breakdown of social systems as they were overwhelmed, if we hadn't shut down? Maybe. But we now know what the costs of shutdown are, and it's not pretty.

I wonder what this country would be like now IF....

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The death rate is the biggest variable.

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