Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
The government mismanaged just about every aspect of Covid. Lockdowns etc simply didn’t work. Look at the daily case rates/deaths today. They’re higher than they were in 2020 and 2021. Yet here we all are going about our lives. So what was it all for? Why shut everything down and pump Trillions into the economy and induce generational inflation and economic doldrums?
We're at 80% of the population with at least one dose, and approx 70% of the population fully vaccinated atm.
Wasn't that the plan? To get the vaccination rate approaching 70% or better so that the lockdowns could be lifted, allowing us to eventually get on with our lives?
Hindsight is 20/20, but as I recall there was/is broad world-wide scientific consensus that lockdowns in the early days was an integral part of the strategy to deal with the pandemic.
I'm sure it was understood that that decision would unfortunately result in some negative economic consequences. How bad it would be, that's another question that we're currently in the process of discovering.