After a year of shutdown, the costs of coronapanic finally seem significant to a mansion-dweller:
How to explain this apparent 180-degree turn? He ran out of Grey Poupon at his mansion?
Related:
- Your lockdown may vary
- The social justice of coronashutdowns (in which a friend points out that I am dead wrong to say “shutdowns are ordered by people who live in mansions (governors) and supported by rich white people who live in 4,000+ square foot suburban houses” and then I look up the friend’s house on Zillow)
- a 30-second history lesson on YouTube for younger readers (folks in the 1980s were more easily entertained)
I simply can’t think of anything that’s happened recently, say in the last couple of months, that would cause such a drastic change of mind. Anyone?
I predicted that coronavirus would become suddenly safe right after elections. But it turned out it took some extra time to thoroughly exterminate deplorables which in any other country would be called labor movement. So now, when establishment finally trumped Trump and all possible supporters, it’s time to change course.
Last four years, with some irony, demonstrated that there is no pro-labor party in US.
I had also predicted Nov 4 as the day that Coronavirus suddenly isn’t such a big deal and lockdowns are no longer required, but it looks like that day will instead be Jan 21.
At the current rate of vaccination, and if we believe Dr. Fauci, it will be end of summer before we reach anything close to herd immunity. I don’t think Biden will want to wait that long (since I don’t think most American people are willing to wait that long to get back to normal), so we see establishment Dems starting to draw back from shutdown policies. It will be interesting to see if local health bureaucrats will play along and go back to their old role where no one cares who they are or what they say, or if they will resist and continue to power trip.
When the heretics WHO came out in October and said lockdowns don’t work and shouldn’t be used (#NotMyScience?) it did seem well-timed as justification for a November end to lockdowns following a Biden victory, but maybe the timing was coincidental. Or maybe it wasn’t and the political establishment decided they just needed a bit more time.
Here is the WHO talking about the danger of lockdowns and discouraging their use, a few weeks before the election: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/who-official-urges-world-leaders-to-stop-using-lockdowns-as-primary-virus-control-method/ar-BB19TBUo
I write this from California, where I’m blessed to have leaders who #FollowTheScience, but only the True Science.
Now that Biden won, you are now free to pivot back to reality.