You know what other country seems to have it under control? Sweden. Maybe we should emulate Sweden. They also seem to have it under control, and up until this year progressives have loved to praise Sweden.
My attitude is certainly not prevalent in the government of my country, or we wouldn't be dropping bombs all around the world and enacting shutdowns.
Still, those who actually believe the arguments I was mocking (and yes it was mockery) really have no actual argument against humans wearing flea collars other than trying to call me hypocritical for repeating their own arguments back at them.
If Corona was as deadly as the hype, we wouldn't need mandates to shut down businesses and keep people at home. People are seeing through the hype, and that is the real problem.
Should we have these mandates on every communicable disease that is at least as bad as Covid?
This is a great example of conservolibertarians failing to understand nuance.
We have succeeded in stopping millions of unnecessary deaths. Ought any 1 unnecessary death be reason for all of humanity to go into lockdown? No, certainly not, but here you have the strawman being thrown about anyway.
So, where's the nuance? It has to do with resources such as hospital beds. If we let the pandemic hit us with no mask wearing, no social distancing, no government strategy then we would have insane overflow into our resources. The related human resources would also then be hit with the pandemic to an extreme, breaking healthcare in the country.
Our business as usual economy and healthcare handle small epidemics and a single instance of 1 person getting the bubonic plague. People die unnecessarily but these are accidents or issues with accessibility or systemic problems of poverty that can and ought to be worked on separately. They are not the result of healthcare itself breaking due to lack of resources across the board.
In regards to Sweden, Sweden did worse than Norway and Denmark. However, all these Scandinavian countries do not have the level of issues we have with systemic differences and especially with crazy population density of NYC and other major urban areas.
For example, Sweden's capital Stockholm has a population density of about 365 persons per square kilometer. NYC has a population density of 4K to 22K depending on the section of the greater metropolitan area. This is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude more than Stockholm.
The pandemic and viral spread are expected to grow exponentially and so the population density has a direct bearing on spread. AND on resources that might have to be expended.
Metropolitan hospitals often have good resources and good expertise besides. So, persons in rural areas or suburbs often go there when sick of something strange like, say, corona-19. This means that if a rural area or suburbs gets a spread, then the persons may bring it to the city as well wreaking havoc. Therefore, having a national strategy, watching the numbers and responding makes WAY MORE SENSE than waiting months for an alleged free market response or leaving it up to individuals' Qanon religion.
