This is what annoys me about the US COVID protesters. We really didn’t have lockdowns in the US. A lockdown is when you have curfews, can’t go out, can’t travel at all, etc. I saw little of that in the US and what was there was sparsely enforced to the point of being not much more than a suggestion.
Where I live in the US we had a curfew and a travel ban, and we’re only allowed out of the house to shop or go to an approved job.
Business nod deemed critical were forced to shut down, with no warning or recompense to their owners. Many of them went bankrupt, were forced to lay off all of their employees, and cancel contracts with customers.
Spring 2020 here was no Shanghai, but it wasn’t the nothing-burger you seem to think it was.
And, ironically, it is effectively over in places with a non strict lockdown policy. Once omicron became dominant it was over, it’s so infectious it’s pointless to lock down. Omicron was/is the ultimate vaccine in the US at least.
Yep, exactly. It’s been basically over in Arizona and Florida for more than a year, in NYC since Omicron, in Germany it probably will be after the present wave, and in Australia and China it may never be.
The duration of Covid-related disruptions depends almost entirely on how much a society chooses to sacrifice to prevent spread.
People who live with a government where everything is allowed except what is explicitly forbidden won’t stand for a sudden, drastic, decrease in liberty without a representative vote.
US politicians know this which is why a strong suggestion plus threatening employers with licensing revocation unless they, in turn, threaten employees with job termination over non-compliance is all they could do.
