And the lockdowns were intended to stop the spread in order to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed.
According to all the in-depth studies -- the lockdowns early in the pandemic worked as intended in terms of keeping the public health care system up & running until effective treatments and eventually vaccines could be made available.
Or would you like to have been like some countries where they were just piling the bodies in the streets and could not find anyone to bury them? Oh, the sweet smell of "freedum".
In a Pandemic, certain people are able to intelligently weigh the worst outcome of doing one thing versus doing something else...others can not see down the road what "will happen" if lockdowns had not been used.
- The lockdown was needed when the threat became to grave and then when that threat decreased substantially...the lockdowns were removed. Yet, nobody stated that lockdowns will not harm society but what was stated is that without the lockdowns...
There would be
more harm until our hospitals were able to manage the overflow of severely ill and until we had vaccines & medical therapeutic treatments.
I knew lockdowns would be bad for our education system, bad for those struggling with mental health, bad for the economy and so on. Yet, I also knew it would have been much worst had we not lockdown because we don't have a society in North America that will do the right thing to avoid a lockdown...
- It's the reason why I often compared the behavior of residents in Sweden versus the behavior of residents in North America just prior to the lockdowns. We were too polarized with politics while protesting to bitch about not being able to get our hair cut at the salon.
North America has too many people that believe (still do) that the Pandemic is a hoax as in there was no Covid, hospitals not over capacity, hospitals had enough PPE to properly protect front line workers, and so on.
Of those that left their medical jobs in this Pandemic...more than 1/2 quit because of the Pandemic, another 25% took retirement at 60 - 62 years of age and the remainder lost their jobs when vaccine mandates were being used.
- Today, front-line workers that remained/survived...these workers are still traumatized and there's a high increase in suicide among them. Simply, they saw too much shit.
Yet, what happened to India, Brazil, and places in Italy...
Covid dead people piled up in the streets, outdoor cremations of the dead, and medical hospital beds outside / inside tents like what you would have seen in a war... it's not something that North America could have stomached.
The worst I saw personally in this Pandemic as a resident in North America...some hospitals turning away severe Covid sick patients that were struggling to breathe and outdoor military tents setup for the overflow of severe Covid sick patients.
Those were scenes that I saw and it made me think that stuff only happens in other countries...not in Canada or the United States. It's a disturbing thing to understand even with my strong understanding of Pandemics (historically) and the disruption to normal life for the duration of the Pandemic.
Yet, I was very glad that we never reached that point as India, Brazil and parts of Italy had reached.
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