We now know lockdowns barely worked, and Europe is over COVID — when will our leaders finally open society?By David Marcus
February 2, 2022
Denmark is one of those countries that the American left loves to point to and say, “Why can’t we be more like them?” This week, for once, there should be bipartisan agreement to this sentiment.
The Scandinavian nation has announced COVID no longer poses a threat to society, and is ending nearly all of its restrictions.
The realization that the COVID emergency is over and life should get back to normal has dawned on much of Europe, but across parts of America, and right here in New York City, our feckless leaders can’t take yes for an answer. So, for God’s sake, What metric are they looking for to end this? Give us a number of deaths, cases, hospitalizations, infection fatality rate, anything, that means we can ease restrictions.
Increasingly, it appears that governors like Kathy Hochul and Gavin Newsom, who insist our children wear masks all day, while they gallivant about maskless, have no intention of ever letting this end. If they did they would be setting guidelines for easing restrictions, instead they plot out an endless quagmire of shifting events and possible variants.
What makes the position of the “restrictions forever” crowd utterly untenable is the research showing that our lockdowns never worked in the first place. A new Johns Hopkins study shows that our hysterical effort at shutting down society reduced COVID mortality by just 0.2%. 40 million thrust out of work, a third of small businesses ruined, education of kids ignored, overdoses skyrocketing, shelves empty, all for 0.2%. In today’s Gotham, attendance at Broadway shows is in the tank compared to pre-pandemic levels. Confusing, unenforced mask mandates still linger from the subway to the stadiums, and all while the rest of the world accepts that the Omicron variant and its less severe illness marked the end, not a new beginning, of the COVID crisis.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/denmark-ends-covid-restrictions-when-will-the-us-open-society/
