From CNBC:
Biden Covid advisor says U.S. lockdown of 4 to 6 weeks could control pandemic and revive economy
Shutting down businesses and paying people for lost wages for four to six weeks could help keep the coronavirus pandemic in check and get the economy on track until a vaccine is approved and distributed, said Dr. Michael Osterholm, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden.
Osterholm, who serves as director of the Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said earlier this week that the country is headed toward “Covid hell.” Cases are rising as more people grow tired of wearing masks and social distancing, suffering from so-called “pandemic fatigue,” he said Wednesday. Colder weather is also driving people indoors where the virus can spread more easily.
A nationwide lockdown would drive the number of new cases and hospitalizations down to manageable levels while the world awaits a vaccine, he told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday.
What the fuck is this guy talking about.
We saw COVID hell, it was NYC at the beginning of this year. The disease is far more manageable now and the death rate is much lower than it was in March.
On top of this, Pfizer announced that it had a vaccine that was 90% effective and is being fast-tracked for approval.
What will a four to six-week lockdown do right as a vaccine is supposed to start rolling out?
Kill off the last of the small businesses that survived the first lockdown and all the ham-fisted fuckery since then.
Biden and his advisors are pushing LOCKDOWN! despite evidence that a lockdown is unnecessary and does more damage in the long run.
Small business owners, especially restaurants and brick-and-mortar shops have resisted the lockdowns from the beginning. Trump has not been the lockdown dictator that the Left wants him to be, and more recently he has been a voice for opening the economy back up.
Biden wants to punish the lockdown resisters and force them to lock down with the heavy boot of federal government.
This isn’t a matter of science, this is a matter of subjugating the Kulaks.
Funny how these same people kept screaming at us WEAR A MASK. SLOW THE SPREAD. and now its “spiking”??? Ya ok. It is very old. I been out in it 5 days a week plus since day one. Now our commie guv has doubled down on mask wearing. “Science” they say. Listen they say. And sheeple are now wearing masks out in the woods in state parks.
Speaking of starving the Kulaks… the Democrats outlawed my consulting business back in California (as well as a heck of a lot of other one-person part-time businesses there) with AB5. Now they’re trying to take that national, only more so.
Let’s forbid people to earn a living outside the corporate system, for the benefit of the workers! (See also: we had to destroy the village in order to save it. (Misattributed to an American officer; actual destruction by Communists, natch.))
Ah, the benefits of Transnational Corporatism.
A 4 to 6 week lockdown will revive the economy!? WTF? In what universe does this work?
Well it makes about as much sense as minorities self-segragating themselves in the name of stopping racism. Or rioting and looting in the name of justice and peace. Or killing babies under the guise of “healthcare” while the largest abortion mill in this country has the word “parenthood” in it’s name.
I could go on for days.
It is double plus good comrades.
The guy says the country is headed toward “Covid hell.” and doesn’t even see that he’s the one driving us there.