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2020-06-05 Britain

The architects of lockdown must not be allowed to rewrite history

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-05 03:59|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 It was a failure and will be buried as quickly as possible.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-05 06:39|| 2020-06-05 06:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Red State - Why Should We Trust Health Experts Ever Again?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-05 06:45|| 2020-06-05 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 I wish these architects of lockdown were locked UP.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-05 07:15|| 2020-06-05 07:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Chicken Little leads to Crying Wolf

Human behavior hasn't changed one bit in 2500 years

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-05 07:47|| 2020-06-05 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 It sure hasn't. That's why history repeats itself, the stock market does what it does, etc., etc. Life/The world is cyclical, not linear.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-05 08:09|| 2020-06-05 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ The plight of the Jew might be a valid case in point.

'What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.'
~ King Solomon...right ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-05 08:11|| 2020-06-05 08:11|| Front Page Top

#7 The lockdown does work at reducing the number of infections NOW, but it really only defers them until it is lifted or the germ gets through the cracks - unless safe and effective vaccines or treatments are developed and deployed before the lockdown is lifted. Or at least that’s how it looks to me - what do I have wrong?

Posted by Glenmore 2020-06-05 09:01|| 2020-06-05 09:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Ecclesiastes 1:9

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-05 09:07|| 2020-06-05 09:07|| Front Page Top

#9 This also is vanity.

Posted by Lex 2020-06-05 09:26|| 2020-06-05 09:26|| Front Page Top

#10 The world has passed six million cases and six percent have died. This is not like flu.

It’s fairly treatable, luckily, if we could just get politics out of it.

Posted by KBK 2020-06-05 10:52|| 2020-06-05 10:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Damn straight! Anyone who advocated "herd immunity approach" should be tried for manslaughter.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-06-05 12:32|| 2020-06-05 12:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Why should we listen to any of the conservative or libertarian Chicken Littles who went along with it, either?

Looking at you, Glenn Reynolds, who barely mentions his own contributions to these efforts nowadays.

The memory hole -- it's not just for lefties anymore!

Posted by charger 2020-06-05 15:09|| 2020-06-05 15:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Whether or not we should have locked down in the first place is not an interesting question. Whether or not there is any justification to continue a lock down is very interesting indeed.

Posted by Iblis 2020-06-05 15:23|| 2020-06-05 15:23|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't know what's going on in Mexico, but according to Johns Hopkins the case fatality rate in many Mexican cities is 15 - 20%.

Posted by KBK 2020-06-05 15:58|| 2020-06-05 15:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, for one thing -- it's Mexico.

Posted by charger 2020-06-05 16:02|| 2020-06-05 16:02|| Front Page Top

#16 Tijuana and Mexicali were overwhelmed. They already had sub-par med services and the numbers arriving last month were huge. There hasn't been much news in San Diego media lately, so it may have abated - but to what extent, I don't know

Posted by Frank G 2020-06-05 16:21|| 2020-06-05 16:21|| Front Page Top

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