The current actions of politicians in a number of countries are difficult to explain with anything other than incompetence or deliberate actions to achieve their personal/clan political ambitions or promote interests of external actors...
...this make-things-up-as-you-go attitude toward COVID-19 numbers is being draped in the mantle of "science" by bureaucrats and elected officials who seek to pander to frightened voters...
...knowing what we knew on March 1st, quarantine and extreme social distancing was absolutely the right thing to do... The mistake was not taking the timeout...
The medical experts who are advising us are doing their jobs... the job of policymakers is to weigh those recommendations against the costs and benefits they impose... but first, do no harm!
...with typically Swedish bluntness, Giesecke explains flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable dying first as much as lockdown, that Covid-19 is a 'mild disease' similar to the flu, & the Imperial College paper was 'not very good'
While New York City has emerged as the global case study for rampant disease spread so far, skeptics warn that a full blown pandemic in India would be orders of magnitude more catastrophic.
When Anthony Fauci first warned that two million would die, there was a race among federal, state, and local officials to see who could rip up the Constitution fastest.
