Matt, I had the worst thing to ever happen in my life this year when my lovely mother passed away at the end of May. I want to be clear her death was of cancer and had nothing to do with Covid. What covid did do was make it very hard to see my mum and that has left my sister and me incandescent with rage at the way this scam has played out. I welcome your posts and your common sense, I just wish more people could see what a joke this whole thing is. Everywhere you look in the MSM FEAR FEAR FEAR. All designed to sell product and terrify the population into total submission. Unfortunately it seems to be working by and large with small pockets of resistance that get arrested if they take to the streets and heckled by idiots if they speak out on the Internet.
Thanks for your post, Rascal full.
That's deep. I feel that with any policy - or with anything in life, really - our decisions should boil down to cost/benefit analyses. I'm not saying that Covid-19 is fake - what I am saying is that the response to Covid-19 has been nothing remotely close to proportional, and that once we analyze the total costs and benefits of lockdowns and social distance measures [possibly even the health effects of people wearing the same mask over and over again, just to be able to go to stores], that we will find the response to the pandemic is much worse than the virus itself. The cure is worse than the disease so to speak.
My grade 12 math teacher said that the cost of Y2K ["Year 2000 problem"] was $160 billion, globally. He said that while the cost was high, it may have been much higher if we did nothing.
That may have been true.
But in the case of COVID, the response has cost the global economy 10 to 100 times as much, and put the world in a global recession second only to The Great Depression, which I only know of one Getbigger who is old enough to have been alive for ["ANAL DISCHARGE" - although I don't know if he is still alive].
If it means anything [good or bad...it's all bad to me, IMO], I haven't been able to see my grandmother since the pandemic started. She is my last remaining grandparent [I'm turning 40 in December, and she will be 89 in September], and this has been by her choice. This is my mother's mother, and she actually lives just up the street from me [with one big stop light], but the reality of the matter is I would LIKE to see my grandmother eventually, and I can't - and this is by her choice. It would be MUCH worse if I couldn't see her on her deathbed, by law.
Look at this Canadian story...it's reprehensible to me:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/facing-another-retirement-home-lockdown-90-year-old-chooses-medically-assisted-death-1.5197140Of course that pales in comparison to your example, but to really understand the impact of the measures put in place to stop the virus from spreading [which have failed anyway], we need to look at these sorts of things.
Here's an example closer to yours - if you search YouTube for "social distance funeral", you will find this clip. This video only JUST hit 6,000 views today, and WHY do I need to go to "Russia Today" to see an example of this garbage happening in England?
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^ Seriously?
I get that Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family have been sued into oblivion, and I get that something HUGE is going on...I feel that this is one FINAL attempt to fleece the public and consolidate as much power into the hands of the global elite as possible...but SERIOUSLY?
I will say one thing about the people pulling the strings here: they REALLY raised their game this time out. I have NEVER seen this much economic destruction, violations of civil liberties, and general chaos any time in my lifetime, and any time I am aware of in the West since WWII [I guess aside from Yugoslavia, or whatever other White wars we've had since WWII].
There is no way that this agenda continues.
That being said
*conspiracy* video warning ahead, this is the only way I see this continuing - if a new virus with an actual high mortality rate is released. If THAT happens...then, IMO, it's game over for the dissident movement here.
Covid-19 is NOT the plague we originally thought. And the more the "True Believers" hang on to that notion, the more they lose credibility by the day. And I have NEVER seen organizations like the WHO throw the totality of their established credibility in the trash like this before - which leads me to believe this is a sort of "last stand" for whoever is pulling the strings.
Even if all the global lockdowns went away tomorrow, and Covid-19 disappeared forever, the extent of the economic loss is at LEAST triple that of the last global economic crisis, of 2008.
I guess we will have to see how this pans out, but FFS, can't the people who still think Covid-19 is some plague just stop already? They are literally embarrassing themselves at this point.
It's very nice to see this video approaching 1.4 million views, with a fantastic ratio - compare that to ANY mainstream media story about COVID from CBC or CTV or Global[ist] News [Canada's three biggest media/propaganda outlets]: