Resist The Authoritarian Response To The Coronavirus

[Del Tachi]

You all being total nutjobs on your 18 month total lockdown is going to push a lot of people towards voting for Trump who wouldn't otherwise

Nobody wants an "18 month total lockdown"!  That is insane.  Even if this was Black Death 2, more people would die of starvation/anxiety by the end of that.  But people should be psychologically prepared for long slog with possibly several more 0.5-2 month intervals of social distancing as needed in different localities and that normal life will not fully return nationwide until there is a vaccine sometime in 2021.

You know people didn't have to stay in bomb shelters continuously in London for the duration of the Blitz, right?  They went in periodically as the raids happened, then came back out.

There's a pretty big psychological difference here.  A bombing raid is obviously a very evident, localized, temporary event.  People being told to hole up indefinitely because of a disease that is always *just around the corner is going to get old very, very quickly.

People won't be buying-into social distancing and self-quarantines in four weeks.  Fear is the motivator now.  Fear doesn't have an infinite shelf life.  People will ultimately see the medicine as worse than the disease.

The grass is always greener.

[Del Tachi]

There's no evidence that Social Distancing and Mask Wearing have significantly minimized the death toll, or even the number of cases. 

There's no evidence because they were not actually enforced. No rule is going to work if you have half the population not following them--clearly someone in the 'law and order' segment of the population should know this. It's like having a road where everybody speeds, and then claiming going the speed limit is pointless as it doesn't prevent accidents.

While I don't believe masks should be mandated for the vaccinated at this point, the fact that people who are not vaccinated are not wearing them does not somehow refute decades and decades of proven evidence that masks do work at preventing individuals who wear them from spreading diseases.

This is a patent non-truth.  The scientific consensus prior to last summer was that universal public masking was not appropriate in response to respiratory pandemics because it had never been demonstrated as effective.  Mechanistic plausibility for face masks to control asymptomatic transmission of a respitory virus (i.e., filter efficiency) neglects to consider aspects of a mask's fit.