And how, exactly, did we get such bogus R0 data? Where did it originate?
It originated with the horrible scare scenes coming out of Wuhan, China. We didn't see such scary scenes until it ravaged northern Italy and Spain.
Is it possible that CHINA INTENTIONALLY amped up the scare scenes knowing that the West would go into shutdown mode? Is it possible that China not only developed the virus in their labs (maybe pure research, maybe "gain of function," maybe as a vaccine) and released it in Wuhan (accidentally or maybe intentionally) precisely when millions of Chinese were going abroad for the major holiday, but then intentionally exaggerated the disaster in Wuhan to trigger the West into economic meltdown?
Nah, not possible. Nope.
Fauci held up the Chinese virus “response” as ideal. Don’t forget that.
I think one of the things that terrified people was precisely this, the idea that your government could start welding you into your apartment building, forbidding you to see loved ones, making you die alone, making you get permission to breathe, practically...usual CCP stuff, but not for Americans. And then when our government said two weeks to “flatten the curve” but didn’t threaten to weld us into our buildings, we were relieved...and then it went on and on and got more and more aggressive as leftist governors took advantage of it to enact other agendas (anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-small business, etc.).
It was a terrible, terrible mistake. But people were already primed for terror by having seen China’s miserable example. And now we’re left with the wreckage of our Constitution and economy, insanely empowered local dictators that even Trump doesn’t seem to be able to (or maybe want to) control...and us waiting for permission to shuffle around, masked to the eyeballs and isolated from all the civic connections that made America great (sports, choirs, churches, volunteer organizations, outdoor recreation).