COVID madness: the thread

[ericbarbour]

Because we need a place to put these post-pandemic stories.

Consider this one: in many countries, the 2020 lockdown was handled so badly, that children born that year are growing up with psychiatric deficits, due to the lack of human contact. The UK and Australia were especially abusive about lockdown rules, though we see some of this in the US as well....I could go on and on about the British government's general incompetence but you get the drift. TO THIS DAY, most public authorities don't realize that the greatest COVID danger was to people over the age of 70 or suffering from immune system compromise. They should have locked down the hospitals and nursing homes first and foremost. Instead, they treated everyone as a dangerous disease vector--and restricted medical care generally.

Discussion of this in US media has faded, but there was a recent BBC report.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39kry9j3rno
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/ ... 660318002/
https://theconversation.com/pandemic-ba ... ent-155903

The state of Victoria became notorious for the paranoid way it ran the lockdown. Again, the media has since lost interest in this story. Many things were done, badly, and people's lives were ruined. Teenagers, the people LEAST in danger of COVID, were imprisoned or slapped with huge fines for daring to go outside. I wonder how many people died because of the lockdown effects, like domestic violence or losing their jobs, and not COVID itself. We will probably never know. "It's embarrassing".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-04/ ... /100348396
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-18/ ... /100016152
https://www.news.com.au/national/victor ... 39ddb30fd2
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-30/ ... y/12689792

You can thank this guy for much of it. A "Progressive" politician, who basically harassed public-housing residents. Fined by his own police force for not wearing a mask. Hilarious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_An ... 9_pandemic

[journo]

Over 100 undiagnosed and nonsymptomatic Iranians drank industrial-grade ethanol to "clear the virus" from their body and then shortly died from alcohol poisoning

I added this to some page about mass delusion on Wikipedia and doubt it is still up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... protection

[ericbarbour]

Over 100 undiagnosed and nonsymptomatic Iranians drank industrial-grade ethanol to "clear the virus" from their body and then shortly died from alcohol poisoning

The story was already posted here.....being a conservative Shi'ite country, drinkable alcohol is illegal unless you make your own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_ ... %93_2_May)

I added this to some page about mass delusion on Wikipedia and doubt it is still up

Was that your change? Otherwise I can't find any trace of it.

[Archer]

TO THIS DAY, most public authorities don't realize that the greatest COVID danger was to people over the age of 70 or suffering from immune system compromise.

No way. I don't see any reason to presume or accept ignorance as an excuse for the sleazy policymakers who made students and other not-at-risk populations the unwilling recipients of pharmaceutical product.

[journo]

Was that your change? Otherwise I can't find any trace of it.

No, it was another page, a long time ago.

[Archer]

drinkable alcohol is illegal unless you make your own.

Really not a bad policy, depending on the exact wording.

I think the bigger story though is big pharma's profiteering and complicit policy-makers.