Thing I said 1 year ago today:
"I've been told a bunch that anyone worried about the "economy" is heartless and doesn't care about people dying.
False.
I not only care about the thousands people dying of a disease, I also care about the millions people who will be harmed by the supposed cure.
It's also just not true that the choice we face is global economic destruction vs. pandemic.
Diseases are a hell of a lot easier to fight when your population isn't poor, unemployed, and scared -- and when the government doesn't have totalitarian power."
A year later, the destruction has been immense, and I believe -- more than ever, given recent experiences -- that a major cause of death (including those which have been considered "covid deaths" on death certificates, was the lockdowns themselves, not the disease.
We're now starting to learn more and more about the deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, homicides, and the other serious harm that has been caused by the policy response for the last year.
We can see the economic devastation, although what most people still don't seem to have grappled with is how long the stagnation will be a problem and how many long-term issues have been created by the trillions of dollars trickling into the economy.
We can now see how nursing home policies and failures at the CDC and the FDA greatly exacerbated the crisis from the virus itself.
But what most people still don't see at all is how many people have died of heart attacks, cancer, renal failure, and other serious conditions that went undiagnosed and untreated -- and how many people who died "of covid", actually died of substandard care and doctors ignoring serious problems because they were focused only on one thing (like my father in law).
And I think it's going to take a long, long time to see how many people died in the care of nursing homes and hospitals around the country whose deaths could have been prevented if there had been family and friends around to advocate on their behalf and encourage them to fight harder, instead of isolating people and leaving busy health care workers to monitor their own work.
I'm shocked at how many people have died, but I don't believe for a second that many of those deaths couldn't have been prevented if we hadn't embarked on the policy course we took.
For a long time last year, I got moralizing lectures about how not locking down was tantamount to "murdering grandma".
I think the opposite is true. I think locking down is the moral travesty and people who support the lockdowns should be the one answering for the destruction they've caused.
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