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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is still obsessed and mad over “lockdowns” (which isn’t anything we ever did in this country anyway).[/quote]

the National Guard wouldn’t let me sit in the park in April 2020. [/quote]

What park was that, dearie?

I don’t remember any National Guard deployments related to Covid so I am going to call “bullshit” on this one.

Again, I don’t understand the obsession with this. As was previously stated, public health officials did the best they could with the information available at the time. And the goal was to not overwhelm hospitals— to slow the spread, not prevent people from getting sick. They just didn’t want people sick all at once. To that end, social distancing (not “lockdowns” we never had actual lockdowns) were largely effective. Somehow these obsessed people have moved the goalposts and think the objective was preventing people from getting it. That was never the stated objective.[/quote]

DP, I don't know about April 2020, but our local playground had yellow tape around it put there by the county until the neighbors got fed up and tore it down - in late [b]fall 2021[/b]. Long, long after it was known that covid does not spread outdoors except for exceptional circumstances. And it wasn't the only one. Yes, there was extreme and overblown caution in some respects. I remember posts on DCUM about whether it's ok to pass someone walking on a trail outside without a mask. I remember getting screamed at by some little old lady because I was 4 feet away from her on an outdoor trail, unmasked. In winter 2020.

I didn't object to the school closures or the social distancing. I do think, however, that at some point after we had a lot more knowledge - call it September 2020 - decisions were made that were fear-based and not evidence-based. Pretending otherwise now is not honest or helpful.[/quote]

Correcting my post - late fall 2020, not 2021. (I do have colleagues who refused to let their kids play outside with others as late as fall 2021, but that's a different post!)[/quote]

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