One by one, the lockdown myths are crumbling

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Anonymous wrote:School closures and the masking of small children. My youngest was in K when schools closed. Some kids have never caught up with reading and speech.

Older kids were hit with a suicide epidemic.

No, kids aren’t okay.

Wait, you are talking about K with speech disorders? Most kids talk between 1.5-3, so this isn't a covid issue, it's a parenting issue as parents failed to get them help starting at 2-3 when they had an issue. And, most probably didn't work with their kids at home or have them participate in virtual, so they missed a year of school. Mine were reading before K as we taught them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The #1 thing I learned during Covid is that there are some seriously ignorant a-holes out there.

True.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believed in locking down for the first week or two. But then when it went on for months, it was wayyyy too much. On tops of that, no one was really getting sick, and for the ones who did get it, it was like a minor flu/cold for a healthy person. They should’ve only had the very sick and elderly stay locked down. But not everyone. It made no sense whatsoever.

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Most people feel the same.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year+ school closures that many public schools experienced in the DMV were a huge societal mistake, with large repercussions that will be felt probably for decades.

Oh please. It was the best thing for the health of my children. My kids were able to excel at home with online learning. The reason was that they had involved parents. Trash parents who do not like to parent wanted the school to open.

I mean, if you need to call parents "trash"....

Sure. Being honest here.

Trash parents are populating this country with ignorant and low ability kids. We need a policy to export out the village idiots to Mexico. I think we will also solve the immigration problem. America for the intelligent people only!

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Anonymous wrote:This article from the UK seems to acknowledge what many of us have come to realize: many of the protocols imposed in response to Covid were simply wrong:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/31/one-by-one-the-lockdown-myths-are-crumbling/

What Covid measure do you feel was the most harmful to society, and are we doomed to repeat it next time?

Due to the way the pandemic was mishandled- no one will listen next time. So- no.

I agree with this; any attempt at lockdowns, school closures, etc. in the event of a future pandemic will be met with hostility and/or refusal. I think in that way, we will not repeat the past mistakes.

And if a future pandemic is more deadly --- we may be in serious trouble when no one cares.

Future pandemics are likely. And they are likely to be more deadly.

A friend at NIH ran down a whole list for me of the know human pathogens which have caused minor outbreaks, but were contained.

From Ebola to SARS to a whole list of ones I hadn’t heard of, they were all more lethal than Covid.

There will be future pandemics. Of that you can be certain.

That's true. In 2020 we were long overdue for a pandemic, which means there was no excuse for how poorly it was handled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year+ school closures that many public schools experienced in the DMV were a huge societal mistake, with large repercussions that will be felt probably for decades.

Oh please. It was the best thing for the health of my children. My kids were able to excel at home with online learning. The reason was that they had involved parents. Trash parents who do not like to parent wanted the school to open.

I don’t have school aged children and didn’t during Covid. You’re the trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, right wing Tory newspaper in the UK still obsessing about this.

No, they worked at slowing the spread. That was the stated purpose, to not overwhelm the hospitals. Nothing more, nothing less. We were all going to get it eventually and we did.

But the lockdowns were effective at slowing the spread.

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[Anonymous]

I feel like the vaccine rollout in March 2021 should have basically ended all precautions but the public health officials for reasons I don’t understand failed to communicate well what the vaccine would do. As I understand it, sterilizing immunity was never a realistic expectation for a coronavirus vaccine. They should have just said “Hey folks this is the best we can do, let’s get back to normal!”. Instead the drama dragged on for another year+.

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it was ALL FAKE !!!!!!

the guilty will pay dearly for what they have done.

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Anonymous wrote:Shutting schools down for an extended period was definitely harmful especially for younger kids for whom remote learning was a joke. In many states it was the teachers unions who did a real disservice. An early on shut down was understandable given the level of fear but soon it became know that the risk to children was much lower than adults. Yes, the teachers were adults but masks etc proved to be effective.

school was a super spreader site. these policies was never about protecting children from getting the disease and the notion that it was is some kind of weird revisionist history.

Also, the children are fine.

school was NEVER a super spreader site.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School closures and the masking of small children. My youngest was in K when schools closed. Some kids have never caught up with reading and speech.

Older kids were hit with a suicide epidemic.

No, kids aren’t okay.

Wait, you are talking about K with speech disorders? Most kids talk between 1.5-3, so this isn't a covid issue, it's a parenting issue as parents failed to get them help starting at 2-3 when they had an issue. And, most probably didn't work with their kids at home or have them participate in virtual, so they missed a year of school. Mine were reading before K as we taught them.

honestly you’re such a tiresome b

That's' the best thing you can come up with. These kids were in K. Their speech issues were prior to covid ad their parents failed to get them help. So, they blame covid instead of themselves.

[Anonymous]

Much of the lockdown experience was related to privilege (or lack of) as discussed in these comments: “just hire help” “just fly your kid home from college every time there is a quarantine” etc etc. Many did not have the funds to do those things. Many parents had to work (and not from home either- although that was not much easier in many cases). Yes, many restaurants survived- but most that closed were small businesses (as opposed to chain restaurants).

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Anonymous wrote:Shutting schools down for an extended period was definitely harmful especially for younger kids for whom remote learning was a joke. In many states it was the teachers unions who did a real disservice. An early on shut down was understandable given the level of fear but soon it became know that the risk to children was much lower than adults. Yes, the teachers were adults but masks etc proved to be effective.

school was a super spreader site. these policies was never about protecting children from getting the disease and the notion that it was is some kind of weird revisionist history.

Also, the children are fine.

school was NEVER a super spreader site.

You realize public schools around here are 500-3000+ students and staff, of course they are super spreaders and if you google lots of schools had outbreaks.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year+ school closures that many public schools experienced in the DMV were a huge societal mistake, with large repercussions that will be felt probably for decades.

Oh please. It was the best thing for the health of my children. My kids were able to excel at home with online learning. The reason was that they had involved parents. Trash parents who do not like to parent wanted the school to open.

lol that’s right. only trash parents want schools to be open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like the vaccine rollout in March 2021 should have basically ended all precautions but the public health officials for reasons I don’t understand failed to communicate well what the vaccine would do. As I understand it, sterilizing immunity was never a realistic expectation for a coronavirus vaccine. They should have just said “Hey folks this is the best we can do, let’s get back to normal!”. Instead the drama dragged on for another year+.

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