The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History

Townhall ^ | 05/05/2020 | Dennis Prager

[1Old Pro]

Perhaps that is true in NYS.

[Verginius Rufus]

But in terms of the death toll as a result...if Lenin had not seized power in Russia, tens of millions of people would not have died in Communist regimes in Russia, China and elsewhere, and the Nazis might never have managed to come to power in Germany.

Has anyone tried to calculate how many children took part in the Children's Crusade? What happened to them? Sold into slavery in the Muslim world? Something similar happened earlier with the Peasants' Crusade...naive belief that untrained peasants would beat the Turks because God was on their side.

[Amendment10]

The US survived the 620,000 casualties of the Civil War, so it can certainly survive the 71,225 deaths (so far) related to COVID-19 imo.

Insights welcome.

Send “Orange Man Bad” federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping COVID-19 will effectively give fast-working Trump a third term in office imo.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

But the key word is “stupid.”

[Syncro]

The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History

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Yes, but it is exactly what China wanted.

And the dems wanted it too.

They will do and approve anything negative about Trump

They are in collusion with China and they don't care how many die as long as they can get power back.

[Ciexyz]

Interesting link in Comment #45 to the Milgram Experiment.

[Pelham]

It will likely disappear in June.

That’s what SARS 2003 did and this is another SARS.

[exDemMom]

Then I would expect amazing declines this year in other communicable diseases, such as TB and malaria, after the demonstrated effectiveness of their lockdown for COVID.

Those are not good examples, because they both have been eradicated from the US, and are reportable diseases. So public health officials watch for those and take appropriate measures. In addition, malaria is spread by mosquitos, which are notorious for not practicing social distancing.

I have seen some reports that influenza rates have dropped, which makes sense since it is also a respiratory disease. Other causes of death have also declined, since people are staying in their homes and not having as many accidents.

[ladyjane]

Other causes of death have also declined, since people are staying in their homes and not having as many accidents.

What about suicide? There has been an increase in domestic violence but nobody is reporting the suicide rate.

[FoxInSocks]

I’m talking about a decline in India, the subject example here.