#sarscov2

1/About two months ago we panicked and locked down the US and much of the world in a matter of days, mainly on the basis of computer simulations that proved completely inaccurate within weeks and - in theory - to reduce the strain on hospitals... 2/ It is now clear that outside New York City, US hospitals are not and were never in danger of collapse (and even in New York they were strained but most excess capacity was unused). Thus the rationale for the lockdowns has changed... 3/ To some vague theory that we need to reduce #SARSCoV2 infections and deaths to ~zero - a benchmark we have never even considered for influenza or TB or other respiratory illnesses - using a mix of massive testing (even though people aren’t using the testing now available)... 4/ Mask wearing (though masks probably do very little if anything to reduce spread), population-level tracking, and possible forcible removal of infected people from their families (not a conspiracy theory - this has been openly discussed)... 5/ While at the same time imposing broad population-level lockdowns that do extraordinary damage to our economy, educational system, children, and society... 6/ Even though the best estimates for #SARSCoV2 are now that if NOTHING were done to halt its spread, each American would lose 2 to 5 days of life on average. You read that right. Not years, DAYS. And that’s with no efforts to protect the vulnerable... 7/ That’s a comparable loss to two years of traffic accidents or one of overdoses. Meanwhile, the same people in the media who were screaming about the apocalypse two months ago continue to try to virtue shame those of us who point out these inconvenient facts... Alex Berenson