Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Precisely.
Bingo.
Noted and installed.
Will do.
The effectiveness of the lockdowns depends on what their intended objectives were. They were an ineffective public health measure, but they very effectively allowed the establishment political classes to accumulate political power.
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COVID has proven to be very disruptive. The Trump economy was doing very well until the pandemic and the economic lockdowns. In ways the pandemic looks like a less lethal version of an Andromeda Strain Wildfire incident. Biowarfare doesn’t need to be totally lethal to have an effect on an adversary. China’s uncooperative conduct has been suggestive of an opportunistic version of biowarfare. It got rid of Trump, who was a thorn in China’s side. All of this is speculation, but the panicked response of the world, with people at each other’s throats, and the shredding of civil rights and liberties, has exposed vulnerabilities to the effects of biowarfare. It exposed the rot and corruption in Western societies and governments. The pandemic could be considered to be a case study in low intensity biowarfare.
I don’t know how any of our ancestors survived real life problems. We are such wimps. Personally I use the phrase, “when we were all gonna die “.
Lockdown! How about house arrest?
There were > 500,000 excess deaths in 2020 as compared to 2019. There’s a certain amount of disruption incorporated in that.