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These should be called what they are – right-to-die laws. The virus was the problem, not the restrictions. Economic activity went downhill once people figured out there was no way to (for instance) safely dine indoors, before any restrictions were issued.
99.6% survival rate for people below the age of 60. ~95% survival rate for people 70 and over. According to the NHS in the UK, the median age for a COVID death is 82–basically on par with the median age in general. It is essentially the same in the US. This disease is overwhelmingly felling people at the end of their life. But most of them recover too.
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The lockdowns were absolutely the cause of tremendous hardship for tens of millions of people–hundreds of millions across the globe–and it was completely unnecessary. But, if you’re part of the white-collar corporate wing who could migrate your job easily to your living room on a laptop, you simply didn’t care and preferred berating lower-middle class people and small business owners driven into poverty, all for the sake of a disease for which it is abundantly clear is of minimal risk to people in prime working-age population. You just didn’t care about them, you pretend to care about grandma, and now you rationalize your callousness by pretending this disease is on par with Ebola or the Spanish flu to justify a lockdown that was but a mild inconvenience for you. More motivated reasoning, because the white-collar corporate class are moral narcissists who think they have the world completely figured out, can do no wrong, and should be running things (even though they already basically do), so they look for any opportunity to scare the populace which gives credence to the authoritarianism that they crave.
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The legacy media does appreciate people parroting their falsehoods ad nauseam, absolutely. But it won’t be enough for them to salvage themselves, as they–the mouthpieces of this narcissistic corporate class–are on a continued downward financial spiral because few people trust them. Good.
Funny, the long hauler I know – early 40’s, in shape, no comorbidities, still miserable three months later and can’t go for a walk – reminds me that sometimes there’s just more to it than survival.
As for the economics, I’ll trust an economist. From Ball State’s Michael Hicks:
“The evidence is very clear that the disease caused a sharp, historically unprecedented decline in economic activity before any state took action to slow the virus’ spread.
The states that are recovering better today are not those with the lightest government action, but those who suffered the least spread of the virus. I don’t yet know if it was government action or luck that reduced spread; that’s the work of epidemiologists. Still, the economic evidence is overwhelming. It was always the virus that caused the recession.
The looming universal availability of the vaccine means that we face a potential end to the pandemic. So, the real start of the recovery is in the hands of vaccine distributors, not economic policymakers. ”
https://howeypolitics.com/Content/Columns/Michael-Hicks/Article/Michael-Hicks-Questions-from-an-economic-forecast/10/375/26672
And spare me the authoritarian nonsense. The GOP is the party of authoritarianism.