Four years ago, federal officials told us,” Remain residence”! We have” 15 time to slow the spread”.
As officers squandered our rights, weeks turned into weeks and then decades.
I have a long history of being skeptical of lawmakers, but I was surprised by how totalitarian some were.
Some demanded that the officers pursue surfers. They slammed sports rings ‘ edges down. Children’s parks were taped up like crime images. They advised residents of rural Utah and Wyoming to remain in their homes.
Officials have done a lot of things that have the opposite effect: reducing our life without making us safer.
They complied with the demands of the teachers ‘ unions to keep schools closed. Learning for children has been slowed down by decades.
Officials destroyed work by closing companies. Some closure orders were insane. Personal cabins and vegetation companies were forced to close down.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump both significantly raised federal spending. Trump’s$ 2.2 trillion” stimulus” package, followed by Biden’s$ 1.9 trillion” American Rescue Plan”, led to so much money- printing that inflation doubled and then tripled.
This year, the fourth- time anniversary of” 15 days to stop the spread”, my new picture looks up at politicians ‘ incompetence.
Second, the government’s countless red tape is likely to have killed people.
At least Trump’s presidency broke FDA guidelines to expedite vaccination approvals. However, FDA regulations prevented the availability of excellent American COVID- 19 test kits because they had n’t passed through the protracted acceptance process.
Michigan’s Gov. ” Public and private gatherings of any length” was prohibited by Gretchen Whitmer. People were informed that they could never discover friends or family members.  ,
Some of her guidelines seemed strange. Kayaks and boats were permitted, but she forbade jet skis and speedboats. She forbade small businesses, but she forbade big-box stores if they blocked off aisles and offered flower nurseries and ink. Why?
Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s” six- feet rule” under Trump was random, says past FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. COVID- 19 moves in particles that stream much further than six feet.
When some Americans became fed up and protested, they were vilified for” threatening the public”. Some were fined. A couple were arrested.
Now it is obvious that imposing limitations was certainly the best way to protect citizens.
Sweden took a close opposite approach. They primarily left persons by themselves.
Authorities in Sweden advised the old and other at-risk people to stay at home.
But beyond that, they let career carry on as normal. Sweden did n’t impose lockdowns, school closures, or mask mandates.
They followed regular post- COVID- 19 knowledge that the best safety is what epidemiologists call “herd” or” social” resistance. Collaborative immunity will reduce the number of infections once a significant number of people become sick and recover.
Rude American politicians and media “experts” sneered at Sweden’s method.
NBC “reported” on what it called” Sweden’s failed test. how the risky COVID spend went wrong.  ,
CBS safely stated,” Sweden becomes an example of how not to control COVID”.
Time Magazine headlined:” Scandinavian COVID- 19 Answer Is a Hazard”.
But the public’s experts were really inappropriate. Finnish health officials had the correct opinion.
Well, at the beginning of the epidemic, Sweden suffered great numbers of COVID- 19 deaths, but as predicted, over time, cattle resistance protected people. Sweden’s extra death level was the lowest in Europe.
Sweden’s business got through the epidemic far better than other countries. Swedish students did n’t experience the learning difficulties that American students did because Swedish schools never closed.
Four years later, have press buffoons who were bad apologized? Corrected their reports? No.
Have American officials apologized and begged forgiveness for their ignorance, for destroying work, restricting our liberty, and excessively pushing us around? No.
This not give lawmakers strength like that again.
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