Can you not see the huge incongruity between the narratives that were pumped out?
Nothing matched..
Actions weren't led by thoughts and vice verse..
And that's where my problems with it all are.
The narrative seemed to be going somewhere.. but in reality it was just nonsense.. the media was pumping out rubbish none stop while the politics thought they could control a virus and the population.. while the biggest corporate institutions on the planet made bank ..
All in the people died with lack of services and human touch..
The biggest con in the history of the world...
Go back and see what they did every other pandemic type situation from history.
Isolate, contain and attempt to find a cure. They also even masked up. It's masking and lockdowns.
Sure the messaging was poor, but people were dying from covid early on. Grandma dying 5 years before she otherwise might have, is still not good, regardless of if it's acceptable to you.
They asked scientists to put in place a way to stop a virus, whilst they worked out treatments. I might not agree with what they decided, but the strategy was sound IF people had done what they said to.
Big business profited because people chose to spend their money there. They marketed themselves well and that's why they are big businesses. Heaps of businesses went online and you could have chosen to support them instead. I did. I wasn't buying mcdonalds or Amazon products, I was purchasing food from local businesses and buying local homegrown products where I was able to. Consumers drive the market, Amazon etc made big money because people chose to spend their money there.
I lived in the state with the longest lockdowns in the world. They paid people over $25,000 to stay home during the lockdown periods. At the height of covid you were able to go see another family group. None of these are perfect measures, but acting like they just shut you into your own apartment and welded the doors shut is not being honest about the situation. I don't agree with it, but I have to be honest and say they atleast tried to put reasonable things in place.
Nothing is ever one person or groups fault, people make their own decisions. Small businesses sufferred the most because the money provided was grossly inadequate to make it through the extended lockdowns.