eugyppius

All restrictions could end this moment, with no adverse effect. What is more, people in power know this and they end nothing. From now until they are replaced, our leaders will impose every restriction that they can. They will never stop, until they are made to.

While I want this to be true, I also want examples and evidence. I am cynical enough to believe everything bad said about the 0.01% elites, but there is no clear smoking gun. They are incompetent and vain, but its not clear how intentional this all is.

who could look at texas and florida, or even switzerland, and think there is any point in this.

Ok you are right that no restrictions is superior to bad restrictions, especially as trading in our rights for a percentage of the sickest and oldest was always a bad bargain. But anyway, now that they have their vaxes, these fascists need to mind their own business

Right now the only plausible explanations for their conduct lie on a spectrum from face-saving doubling down on failed policies so nobody realises they screwed up (most benign end) to some kind of revolution-of-the-elites scenario (at the most sinister end)

Summer 2020 was an obvious exist ramp; they could‘ve folded up the whole show and gone home. Returning to lockdowns in November was possibly just criminal stupidity, but second-wave containment has yielded all the data even the stupidest people alive would need ...

... to understand the virus is steered primarily by regional and seasonal factors, and mass containment is at best totally ineffective, at worst a strategy that is particularly deadly for those in institutional care. The increasingly brain-dead mass containment propaganda ...