Because this disease will not go away until it takes its pound of flesh.
When you mask up, close stores, shut down schools, resturants, gyms, air travel, create social distancing everywhere... all you do is DELAY the inevitable.
It will not go away until herd immunity is in place. Since the vaccine is only marginally effective, multiple strains and a rapid loss of efficacy over time, it will be natural immunity in the end anyhow.
All they accomplished (and many of them were more extreme than in the US with lock downs etc - exception Sweden - which BTW has practically no Covid today), was to screw up their economy, rob folks of their liberty, but the actual end result will be the same no matter where you go, about the same percent of the population will need herd immunity before it finally goes away.
But... politicians need to politic, and bureaucrats need to administer something... So we have lots of very important people telling us what to do.
—> all you do is DELAY the inevitable.
It will not go away until herd immunity is in place.
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If the experimental gene therapy doesn't screw up natural immunity. It looks like it already has been affected.