These guys in charge are mostly attorneys with specializations in bamboozling voters. And the “public health authorities” advising them can get credentials in the field without ever having studied much less practiced medicine. So what do they do? They copy other governments, as a way of covering up their ignorance.
Don’t ever mistake bureaucrats and politicians as smart or knowledgeable people about anything important. From Jeffrey A. Tucker at aier.org:
A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had any hope of being effective.
In the course of two weeks, traditional freedoms were zapped away in nearly all developed countries. In a seriously bizarre twist, even the silliest policies replicated themselves like a virus in country after country.
For example, you can’t try on clothing in a store in Texas or in Melbourne, or in London or in Kalamazoo. What’s with that? We know that the COVID bug is least likely to live on fabrics unless I have symptoms of it, sneeze on my…
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holey moley. i was really feeling this essay, until he got to the end.
“Why did so many governments go so nuts at once, disregarding their own laws, traditions, and values by bludgeoning their own people with the excuse of science that has turned out to be almost completely bogus? Some people claim conspiracy but a much simpler answer might be that, in their ignorance and stupor, they copied each other out of fear.”
nothing to see here, folks. move along. one blind man fell in the ditch and the rest came tumbling after.
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I think he could be partly right, nomad. Here in NZ, we do what the US tells us or the CIA might do a coup on us like they did to Australia in 1975: https://www.mintpressnews.com/forgotten-cia-coup-against-australia-gough-whitlam/268164/
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sure. sweden should beware.
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i thought the reason they all had similar lockdown policies is because they were all relying on the same experts and health authorities. that gates cabal…
no, the author says, as if in answer to the question i raised a couple of days ago: are our leaders that stupid? yes, he is saying. yes they are. thats the reason they all fell in the ditch. THEY’RE STUPID!!!
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