The USA never locked down. Americans like to whine as if we had, but in fact there was very little enforcement. State borders were not closed. In my town we still got a flood of Fall tourists like every year. During the original NYC outbreak, we had tons of New Yorkers come through, more than usual. You go into the grocery store and like half the people aren't wearing masks (much less than that in many places). In the Dakotas, everyone is still talking about how the virus is a hoax, even as they are facing a massive outbreak. We pretended to lock down and a bunch of loud people outraged at having to pretend to lock down made a lot of noise about how horribly our rights were being violated.
You can't use the USA as an example of lockdowns not working.
Well, the UK may stand as a pretty good comparative example of how even the strictest lockdowns do not work, or at the most- barely work!
Shit is really kicking off here now. I know you have massive unrest in the US, with riots, violent protests and clash-offs between extremist groups.
But here is UK, under our noses and almost overnight, we are suddenly in a strictly, no free-speech Police state. The Police are just blidly and aggressively enforcing any which "rule" or terms that they are directed to, without question, without even knowing WHERE those strict new unconstitutional orders are ultimately coming from, and driven towards.
The entire country and economy, plus the mental and emotional health of the majority of healthy adults, and especially the sick in need of treatment etc, and mentally unwell already, in rapid dramatic fashion.
Industries are collapsing. Many thousands jobs lost already in multiple sectors.
It is incredibly incredible disruptive.
It is also clear that the Government is strangely obsolete in this process. The PM is currently in hiding. And no question he just reads a script under tight puppet control and no more.
We have locked down hard as hell, months on end. Guess what- never enough.
Even stricter measures needed, in a very threatening sense.
Honestly - it is simply too frightening for people to accept.
Even when the evidence is right in front of our faces.
There actually being a global cabal pressuring nations to enact these control measures - and after someone has been ridiculing the idea of "covert global goverment" for years, it's not easy to all of a sudden accept that they were wrong and that this is actually happening.
Well it's fucking happening. So the quicker you all wake up, get over your egos, accept what is going on and actively resist it -the quicker we will go back to normal. Because otherwise, if we all just do what the government says and accept all the new rules, then we will be entering a new world that you will not enjoy.
Mate, I really am on your page about this, perceptually and emotionally.