Or does the decline in flu numbers indicate that shutdowns and masks work in virus prevention?
And maybe because of those measures working, we should just shut down everything permanently, hunker down in our bunkers in fear with our quadrupled masks on, and wait for our government checks to show up? Ah yes... in government we trust.
Have to wonder too, if we HADN'T shutdown the economies of the world, hadn't completely destroyed people's livelihoods, hadn't socially distanced so that our parents are held in solitary confinement, barred from their family members and friends even in death, hadn't worn masks, and if we had instead gotten on with our lives...
Could it be possible that we MAY HAVE MUCH more rapidly developed the "herd immunity" that we/they are all STILL "hoping and striving and praying" to potentially achieve optimistically by sometime late this summer (however now we HOPE we can achieve that through the "miracle savior" of the vaccines, rather than "exposure"), AND potentially not then have dragged out the timeline for our "herd" to develop this "herd immunity" so long that the virus then WOULDN'T have had the time it required to develop the "several thousand variant strains" that I heard this morning that it has, and that they are now "rabidly scrambling" to come up with new vaccines just to try to stay ahead of it, and
MAY WE HAVE THEN overcome this thing MUCH faster, with fewer deaths????
We will never know, will we. Any answer to that question is ONLY a guess. The reaction that was taken is what it is. That ship has sailed, and we are where we are. And now we have to deal with the consequences of that decision too, just like we would have had to if the above had been our course of reaction.
Sometimes, when thinking that our "science" is so smart, it can create more problems than it solves. I think we're learning that in agriculture. Ever hear of "super weeds"??? Or "super bugs" that insecticides, BT varieties, and/or antibiotics are no longer effective against?
Does it concern you that perhaps we've been overdoing it with "prophylactic use of these"? Hand sanitizers? Antibacterial soaps?
Does it concern you that perhaps MORE PEOPLE will die, and we will overall have MORE health issues and sickness because of this misapplication/overuse of "science"?
It certainly does me...................................