Posted on 02/01/2022 4:53:50 AM PST by Kaslin
The tally for how much the federal government spent to combat COVID-19 is now estimated to be $5 trillion. It is more than the combined costs of World Wars I and II. The left is celebrating that politicians in Washington saved us. Really? From what exactly?
Two years later, it is time for an honest assessment. Could things have worsened for the country if the government had spent nothing and done nothing? What would have happened if we had not shut down our businesses? Our churches, schools and restaurants. Our parks, basketball courts and playgrounds.
Would the public have made worse decisions regarding protecting its health and the health of its families and its employees than the politicians have made?
The left believes that it was government intervention that saved millions of lives. But even with all the federal spending, some 879,000 (and counting) have perished from the virus. It was politicians such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo whose awful decision-making contributed to the deaths of thousands of seniors exposed to infected patients in nursing homes. In addition, politicians didn't shut down the New York subway system for many weeks into the virus, costing thousands more avoidable deaths.
Suppose the government is here to save us. How do we explain the shameful malfeasance of the CDC, the FDA, the NIH and other government medical agencies and programs that spend roughly half a trillion dollars each year to keep us healthy? All of that money couldn't stop a virus from wreaking havoc on the country for two years and counting.
Why was the CDC caught entirely unprepared to fight this virus? It would be like a town spending millions of dollars a year on fire protection, and the first time there is a significant fire, the firefighters are all napping, no one slides down the poles and the fire engines won't start. So, what were Dr. Anthony Fauci and the rest of the experts at the CDC doing with the tens of billions of dollars we give them each year? They studied the health effects of liberal obsessions such as climate change, racism and gun violence. What they weren't ready to do was their job: preparing for infectious diseases.
Then there is the question of what Washington did with all the money. At least $2 trillion was given to workers and businesses to compensate them for the lockdowns that the government itself imposed. We now have pretty conclusive evidence from dozens of country and state studies that lockdowns were a highly ineffective way to combat the virus. Lockdowns may have saved some lives, but this response was the equivalent of trying to remove a tumor with a sledgehammer. Age-adjusted death rates were no lower in states that shut down their economies than states that stayed open.
The rest of the money went to pay school districts even though the school doors were locked shut, to fund states and cities that closed their businesses, to fund mass transit trains and buses that operated nearly empty, and worst of all, to fund hundreds of billions of dollars of welfare programs, such as expanded unemployment benefits, that paid workers to stay off the job. And millions of workers still haven't come back.
The one program that did work was President Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed. But the heart of that program was to find ways to pull end-runs around drug and vaccine regulations that hold up lifesaving medicines for many years. As a result, private companies such as Pfizer invented the vaccines in record time because the government stayed out of the way.
We are still paying a high price for resident Joe Biden's screw-ups as we deal with the less deadly omicron variant. Late last year, Biden's Department of Health and Human Services stopped all shipments of an effective COVID-19 treatment by Regeneron because a CDC model concluded wrongly that the delta variant had disappeared. Thanks to that blunder, many thousands died or were hospitalized because the government denied them treatment. Other promising therapies, such as by GlaxoSmithKline, have run into regulatory hurdles preventing or delaying their use.
Wouldn't it have been more competent and more humane to let doctors and patients make these decisions rather than Washington bureaucrats and politicians?
There have been a multitude of other snafus by the government that only validate the utter incompetence of big government. Some $300 billion was stolen by fraudsters who ripped off the Medicaid and unemployment benefits programs.
Now here we are, two years from the start of COVID-19, closing in on 1 million dead and $5 trillion more in debt. Millions of children have suffered, perhaps irreparably, from a loss of schooling (some of which still goes on in some districts). There are some 50,000 to 100,000 deaths of despair caused by the lockdowns. And the virus is still out there, though thankfully in retreat.
Big government didn't save us. On the contrary, big government has left us weaker as a nation in every way, and we will spend decades cursing the fact that we panicked and handed over so much power to so many incompetent people in Washington.
This guy’s a joke. Sorry.
This whole thing has been ridiculous
Have of those whose deaths were attributed to Covid would be alive today if cheap and effective early treatments like HCQ and IVM had not been blocked.
But HCQ and IVM are out of patent, and cost pennies per pill, so they were banned and people died, so that Pfizer, Moderna and J&J could rake in mega billions.
If the effective early treatments had been used, Big Pharma would not have been able to justify the EUAs for their experimental mRNA spike protein injections. And with government officials in their pockets, the jabs were mandated, ensuring mega billions to their Big Pharma mega donors.
It was sick, evil and corrupt. Why did Moore leave this out of his article?
HALF of those, not Have. Typing too fast.
I rate the “opened fire hydrants of taxpayer dollars” being funneled essentially as bounties to corporate health care (often in $39,000+ bursts) in order to replace the essence of doctor-patient relationships with fascist medicine as the core of this holocaust.
At CDC/WHO/FDA/NAIAI/NIH-corporate medicine’s behest, the latter executed the government elites’ deadly COVID protocols, in part to spare the government the expenses of later-life care.
This has been—and continues—elites’ deft population control, just as billg desired, forecast and gamed it, having hired Fauxi as his executioner.
Spot on!
Do you think gays were going to stand by while Aids came into the news and the experimental ‘cocktails’ were super expensive?
Ask Mr Victor Davis Hanson, who the real POTUS gave a shoutout to, if he thinks that the left's accomplishments are the result of incompetency!
No, they haven’t. They perished from government malfeasance and medical malpractice, and/or from the same causes that kill lots of people every year. I really wish these writers would stop repeating the lies.
I have noticed this too, and it’s infuriating. I guess it’s “polite” to give the bad guys the benefit of the doubt by saying they’re just incompetent?
Bag that, like you say, this whole thing was entirely intentional and quite likely planned meticulously.
I didn’t die from Covid in 2020-21, but was hit very hard with it & suffered much physically & financially, thanks to the government & the greedy pharmaceutical companies. Wish I’d known then what I know now.
Those of us who didn’t panic, and who saw through this fraud and saw the coming tyranny the moment the first “lockdowns” were announced, will spend decades cursing the fools and morons who let it happen.
This is being proven ever more true, as details emerge.
The article, which fails in some ways, but at least notices the enormous amount of money thrown at a "plan" through the use of media messaging, and one may see the other "fear" plans in the same light.
Though I post his on other threads, the sourced info is:
As of 1 February 2022,
( 5,674,493 "JHU official" global deaths / 7,924,043,134 global population ) x 100 = 0.072 %, the real mortality rate, or less than eight one-hundredths of one percent over two years.
The NIH, CDC and FDA have inflamed an adoring media to scare the life out of whole economies, for the "emergency" benefit of the few.
Government created this virus in a lab. They spread it and used a panic to remove Trump and kill our economy.
This was deliberate.
I disagree.
The greatest failure of government has been the failure to secure the border and enforce the laws.
We are losing our country as a result.
I have no idea wtf you are talking about.
Dr. Fauchi said the straight community would get aids while the scared people thought it would be transmitted from a toilet seat. Drama plays into the advantage of the left. $Billions/trillions later we find out most of it was wasted. Big Pharma/hospitals/and anti-business leftists all did their part with masks, mandates, and the scoffing of ivermectin and other off the counter drugs available. Think military/industrial. Think prison/industrial complex-it’s out there. Then think of the MSM doing their job.
Ok, thanks
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