Posted on 05/10/2020 3:57:05 PM PDT by Rummyfan
In a harrowing article for PJ Media, Dennis Prager argues that the COVID-19 global lockdown is “possibly, the worst mistake the world has ever made,” leading to a mortality rate eclipsing anything the virus could have delivered. Widespread famine in Third World Countries and extreme poverty across the globe are now imminent, “all because of the lockdowns, not the virus.” A study released on May 4 by the nonprofit research institute Just Facts confirms Prager’s argument, concluding that “the total loss of life from all societal responses to this disease is likely to be more than 90 times greater than prevented by the lockdowns.”
Despair, anxiety, bankruptcies, suicide, reduced productivity, diminishment of life expectancy as well as “quality of life,” and postponement of elective surgeries (just one example of undoubted millions: my wife’s mother is going blind but corrective treatment has been put off indefinitely) are some of the consequences of the great “flattening.”
When one factors in the economic costs and attendant suffering, the effect is almost too staggering to contemplate. How could our leaders have committed such a blunder? Prager is at pains to clarify that the economic catastrophe we are undergoing globally should be attributed not to evil intentions but primarily to rank incompetence. He is obviously invoking “Hanlon’s razor” that advises us: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Prager writes: “The lockdown is a mistake; the Holocaust, slavery, communism, fascism, etc., were evils. Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.” I suspect the razor applies to many government leaders who simply did everything wrong and then doubled down on their error rather than admit mortal fallibility. They were stupid—and too proud to acknowledge their mistake....
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
C-O-N-T-R-O-L!!! Control is what it is all about. You have a bunch of little worthless scum-bucket liberals who have some power and now it has gone to their stinking heads. They have the power now to run peoples lives, making them prisoners to their power. It is control and IT HAS GONE TO THEIR STINKING HEADS!! I phrase God for living in Alabama, the most conservative and Christian state in these United States!!! AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!!
Some of both.
Neither. It’s a ploy to steal the election in November. That’s corruption. The RATs will do anything to win an election. Even murder their children. And they love their children.
YES!
Right, its both. I think most of the governors are cowards. So you can add that as well. They do what others do. But many are just listening to their political advisers. Others are hoping to destroy Trump and don’t care who they hurt along the way.
Lack of civil disobedience.
wait til the consequences of lockdowns in African countries becomes clearer.
forced to remain in what are often crowded, single-room homes; most importantly, not allowed to take their produce to markets, around the country, in countries where the informal sector makes up 80% or more of the workforce.
food shortages have begun. poverty is increasing. there is increased hunger - (in India and elsewhere also).
Africans’ immune systems are being weakened just before their own southern hemisphere flu seasons get underway.
a disaster in the making.
end lockdowns everywhere. they were/are the result of mass hysteria spread by the FakeNewsMSM and fake modelling by so-called faux “experts” beloved by the FakeNewsMSM, which had, it seems, ulterior motives for pushing the lockdown narrative.
“Widespread famine in Third World Countries and extreme poverty across the globe are now imminent”
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Where is Dennis getting this from?
If Obama or Clinton had been president, I wonder if the left would have been insisting on these lockdowns.
Massive malice informed by infinite stupidity.
It was the result of listening to the “experts.”
Are Endless Lockdowns the Result of Malice or Stupidity?
yes
With Trump, I think it was a mistake, a serious one, and he should come out and say it. Probably the worst mistake ever made.
With the governors, it’s malice.
“Are Endless Lockdowns the Result of Malice or Stupidity?”
A combo in democrat governors’ case.
. It’s a ploy to steal the election in November.
Trump has to do the unexpected and present a very positive outcome.
Hint....could involve China, among other countries. Winning in Nov is important enough to do unthinkable things. What have you got to lose?
Stupidity built on malice.
Hete in Hawaii , it’s pure stupidity
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