The lockdowns were mostly political. Look at the crowds gathering outside the Whitehouse yesterday. Many without masks. No media outrage over the large gatherings. Suddenly, large gatherings are absolutely fine. I predict that over the next few months, regardless if there is a vaccine or not or regardless of the C19 hospitalizations...you'll stop hearing about C19. It will be like SARS or that other outbreak from 2009.
Not sure what channels you were watching...I was watching CBCNews, BBC news and ABC news.
Most in the audience / streets were wearing face masks and those that were not...I did hear the media mention there "are some individuals"
or "small minority of individuals"
not wearing face masks.
In addition, they the media news channels specifically mentioned multiple times that there's "obvious no social distancing".
People celebrating in the streets for the new elected President, people storming the football field after Notre Dame defeated undefeated Clemson...many without wearing face masks...obviously no social distancing are
NOT the people leading the country.
Yet, those
leading the country and speaking to their supporters directly at "rallies"...if they are not leading by example...
I predict as long as people are dying from Covid-19
or become
long haulers and other countries (e.g. Spain, Germany, France, U.K.) are still doing lockdowns / targeted restrictions...
You'll continue to hear about Covid-19...very loudly.
Lastly, countries that were prepared for a Pandemic, had a population willing to do what it takes to manage a lockdown and listen to their health officials...
- They did not do a lockdown or only needed to do a lockdown lite.
In contrast, those countries that knew they were
not prepared and / or knew their population could not manage a "no lockdown" response...those countries had no choice but to do a lockdown. Unfortunately, many of the latter had a shitting organized re-opening and now paying the price for such (e.g. 2nd lockdown).
Note: Video below by BBC that I watched in real-time...people were wearing face masks and using their autos as a way to social distance.
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