Originally Posted by
steelreserve
What they don't say very loud is that by "all-time highs" they mean 1 in 1,000 people getting sick enough for it to be detected (no, really - those are the actual standards being used). They just show a map with scary orange and red, and the even scarier dark burgundy brown-red, and many assume that means people are dropping dead left and right. They conveniently leave out that dark burgundy means very few people are sick and hardly anyone is dying, and bright red means almost no one is sick and no one at all is dying. You are in the middle of the biggest disinformation campaign in human history.
Also, you seem to have forgotten what this is about, as have many others. It is not that if we come together with a team effort, we can get the numbers down and stop the disease. Every single scientist and infectious disease expert has said that's not how it works; you cannot "conquer" the disease with lockdowns and masks. It is going to do what it is going to do, and all you can do with that is make it do the same thing on a longer timescale. But here's the thing - unless it is so bad that people are being denied medical treatment, there is no point to any of those measures at all.
If you think these are temporary measures and they're just going to give you your freedom back, boy do you have another thing coming. The people who like power have discovered a wonderful new tool to cement that power and exercise it in ways they only dreamed of before. That they were able to enact such measures, without provoking an open rebellion against the government, was an important test that told them all they need to know. Basically, they have discovered how to get a critical mass of people to accept fascism, by telling them it's for their own good.
They're not giving it back after this. Once they have a cure for this particular disease, there will soon be a different reason. And then another, and another, and another (Climate emergency! Everybody stay home!) ... It's just for a little while longer, guys, it's another one-time emergency! We just have to come together until we make it through this one!