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[–]Sebastian 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I agree with you but I think there is no great conspiracy behind it. Just a human error. In the first days, maybe January, nobody really had any data on how deadly is the virus. The theory was it could be even 20%, which would be catastrophic to our society. So with that mindset everybody enacted drastic measures (I am talking about the world, dunno much about US). Also you need to realize that normal flu does not overflood the hospitals with patients. Almost every country in Europe is building field hospitals because of overflooded hospitals. Flu does not do that.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Are you serious?

In the UK we get our hospitals flooded every single winter with flu.

Last year we built field hospitals for covid but they were dismantled due to lack of demand.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In the US it's not super common to go to the hospital for anything short of an immeniently life threatening condition. Poor people do sometimes cause it's covered for them.

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Hospitals in the UK - especially in metropolitan areas - are over capacity, and have been for months, due to COVID. Hence the lockdown. Johnson &co certainly don't want to require lockdown, but their forced to do so because of the rising infection rate, the highest in Europe at the moment.

[–]madcow-5 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Depends what you think is a "great" conspiracy. To say COVID19 wasn't politicized to the most extreme extent possible by democrats, it's just bonkers. It's literally the how and why of democrats winning the election. Both tanking the economy and the mail in voting. Neither of which would not have been acceptable had the left collectively not pretended COVID19 was far worse than it was.

We knew by April that it wasn't as bad as the media and the left was claiming, and the evidence of that was being censored.