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I understand that the US wasn't the worst hit. I just wanted to use those figures to point out that the vaccine is a lot safer than the virus itself, and used data from the same country to do so.That's flawed thinking.
You can then postulate the mortality rate for Influenza is about the same (considering very few confirmed cases are actually reported)
From the worldometers casedemic page ...
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Coronavirus Update (Live): 81,660,489 Cases and 1,780,942 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer
Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...www.worldometers.info
Sort the death rates by country, and find the U.S. is barely in the top 20 (including 15 from Europe)
Your memory is also weak as the U.S. was the first western country to shut down air travel from China on Jan 31st
Unless everyone wore Respirators (or P95 as a minimum), the equivalent of a sock or tissue over your face isn't going to protect you from shit.
The virus is much fucking smaller than any dirt or bacteria, that it might stop.
Even Fauci said masks were a waste of time for the general public (before he got bullied to change his mind)
I agree the U.S. has got more than it's fair share of fat and chronically ill fucks, but it's got nothing to do with the government.
Lockdowns started with Authoritarian China (it had never been done on this scale in recorded history), and only worked with countries that could both shut down borders and lock down nearly the entire population in their houses for prolonged periods, on a dime.
The biggest mistake that the U.S. and many westerns counties did, was not to allow the development of early treatment protocols. And only used reactive supportive care (when your blood oxygen levels reached a dangerous threshold), mainly consisting of being hooked up to a respirator and some pain/and anti-inflammatory meds
The China travel ban was quite quick, but the international travel ban wasn't until March.
The masks are to prevent spread from the wearer to the people around them, as it prevents droplets from traveling further. Nobody ever actually says that it blocks virus particles, except in the most simplified terms doled out via government propaganda. Fauci/The US government telling people masks don't help was so that the government itself could stockpile them, which is absolutely fucked in and of itself, and much more criticism should be leveled against them for it, but it isn't proof that they don't work. The US government isn't the arbiter of scientific information, and it's foolish to look at what they are doing and change one's idea of the world based off of it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...-at-the-beginning-of-the-pandemic/ar-BB16P84e
If the US actually financially supported it's citizens, much of the lockdowns would've gone over a lot smoother. It's not that they don't work, or that they cannot be done, it's that it's not really possible financially for the citizen and businesses to do it, which is ultimately the fault of the government's implementation of it.
There are all sorts of red tape that surround the medical system, for better and for worse. mRNA vaccines were available within weeks of Covid appearing for example, but that still took close to a year to actually be approved. They were certainly trying certain things though, like Hydroxyqloroquine in late march, and then Remdemsivir in April.