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[–]BigFatRetard 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

To be fair, given the cost of the lockdowns, they could have done insane things.

They could have built a 1 billion dollar hospital in the 300 largest cities, and had money left over to staff them.

The cost of the lockdowns and their total uselessness is on a scale that's almost impossible to imagine. That kind of money could have performed miracles. Instead if gave some people a stressful vacation.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

^ LOL A+++ Saved!

[–]hennaojichan 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What benefits?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (22 children)

A site that says almost any stupid thing to push its paranoid agenda. You might was well stick with Alex Jones.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (21 children)

I'd agree the costs of lockdown are high but the solution is easy and rwers hate it, bail out the locked down businesses.

[–]jet199 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As though business losing money is the only problem.

The murder and suicide rates have doubled.

[–]fishbox 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

And then what? They will still be on lockdown and people will still suffer.

Well, average people anyway, the people who will really benefit from this are billionaires.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

there's no suffering besides the real people out of work and losing livliehoods

besides that suck it up snowflake

[–]TheJamesRocket 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

there's no suffering besides the real people out of work and losing livliehoods

Thousands of people have died from preventable injuries and illnesses during the lockdowns, because they were afraid of going to the hospitals and getting sick (or because hospitals were too crowded).

Due to the lockdowns, more people have died from drug overdoses and suicide. They had mental health issues and drug addictions that went untreated, which became worse due to isolation and inactivity.

besides that suck it up snowflake

Its easy to act callous when you don't know the true extent of the human suffering caused by the lockdowns. Try having a little humility.

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

If you look at their comment history, they're pretty much just a troll. It's like 95% antagonistic comments making no effort to have a serious discussion.

But also, I agree with that last line. They're probably some teenager or college aged kid who hasn't experienced a drop of real life.

[–]fishbox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How about the people who will die from covid, do they not count?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

bad example cuz the rw whiners don't care about that

[–]madcow-5 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

there's no suffering besides the real people out of work and losing livliehoods

What are you trying to say by this? It doesn't make sense as an argument, or as sarcasm.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Idiots can't even wear fucking masks to lower the transmission rate.

[–]TheJamesRocket 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

N95 masks may have a limited effect on reducing infection, but cloth masks have no effect at all. N95 masks can filter out virus aerosols, but cloth masks cannot.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

[–]TheJamesRocket 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You obviously didn't read the article. They flat out said that cloth masks only ''trap droplets that are released when the wearer talks, coughs or sneezes.'' In other words, cloth masks only stop the wearer from infecting others: It does not protect the wearer from being infected by others.

And at any rate, we already know from various studys that the actual effect that masks have on limiting the spread of infection is minimal.

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

"Asking everyone to wear cloth masks can help reduce the spread of the virus by people who have COVID-19 but don't realize it." You should learn how to read.

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

imagine calling it 1984 because you get banned from twitter and have to wear a mask to save lives. Winston Smith would love this.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Twitter is a privately owned company that can publish whatever messages it wants as long as it doesn't involve defamation or shouting fire in a crowded threater.

[–]TheJamesRocket 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

BP is a privately owned company that does not need to abide by environmental regulations. If you don't like oil spills, then start your own company to clean it up!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Spilling oil is illegal. Twitter publishing copyrighted material is illegal. Laws exist.

[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is Twitter a publisher, or a platform? If they pick and chose what to edit, they are a publisher. And publishers are not entitled to Section 230 immunity.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah so

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

How do you deal with the stagflation and massive tax hikes whose revenues go directly to bankers?

[–]madcow-5 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many of the locked down businesses have gone under. Small and new businesses are dead, anyone still afloat at this point is afloat because they had mountains of cash to last them.

It'd be a pretty big fuck you to all the small business owners to now hand a ton of taxpayer money out to the big guys who had the cash to withstand the shut-down.

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

The one thing that really doesn't make sense to me is why the fuck are gyms not essential during a pandemic? there has been absolutely no national effort either to provide or provide disposal methods for masks which are a biohazard no? don't doctors throw masks in the same bin as used syringes etc?

Either way - you'd imagine they'd be pushing a healthy lifestyle more than ever now to save heart attack deaths and to keep people's immune system up, naturally healthy, mentally fit, I mean the list of positive benefits goes on and on.

[–]OneHunchMan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It only doesn't make sense if you try to believe the lockdowns have anything to do with public health.

[–]RuckFeddit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep. I wonder has anyone a logical answer to above.

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Good point. We need to kill Granny because it is too expensive to keep her alive.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lockdowns don't save granny.

Post the evidence to prove they do if you have it.