Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "CDC Says It's Not Time to Ease Up on Covid Restrictions" video.

  1.  @CGBalla1014  And yet countries that took things seriously from the start are relatively back to normal. Of course Americans think that their experience is universal, so the ineptitude and callousness of its government must be not only representative but definitive.
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  2.  @clickclack8081  What an incredibly stupid, myopic thing to say.
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  3.  @razoredgechris  nah.
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  4.  @BWolf00  That sounds like a very tough-minded, practical thing to say, but it's actually tremendously cowardly and selfish. If covid is a feature of life from now on, it'll be due in large part to people like you valuing the banal freedom of filling your pie hole at Cheesecake Factory or getting a haircut over the freedom of...I don't know, being alive. As I've already pointed out, coivd had an answer: early lockdowns, paying people to stay home, washing hands, wearing masks, things countries like Vietnam, China, New Zealand and others did, and where people are back to a semblance of normalcy, concerts, restaurants, etc. Our outcome, the fact that we're still staggering through this, was not inevitable.
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  5.  @iwishiknew10  That's absolutely right! Every country had an election this year, and they all conspired to pretend that people were dying from a pandemic! You figured it out! You're so smart!
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  6.  Susanwojcickis Asshole  Yes, the noble, constitutional freedom of filling your pants at Chevy's. God Bless America!
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  7.  @BWolf00  That's literally not true, and no one's recommending that. Is that all you've got, a hysterical straw man? Where's the covid "internment camp" in New Zealand? Let's see if we can get a non-Fox News, non-Alex Jones source.
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  8.  @krisb3939  Yep, viruses never go away. That's why we've been struggling under the specter of polio for the last 30 years. Oh wait.
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  9.  @krisb3939  You may be shocked to learn that 22 cases worldwide in a year isn't a pandemic. Crazy, right? Even crazier—none of those were in the US. There hasn't been a case of polio in the US since 1993, and even that didn't originate here. So yes, to address the original point I was responding to, and not the gallop you're riding, virus can be effectively eradicated. I'm not sure why the dum dums in the comments think that there being a vaccine is some kind of gotcha. Yes, we need (and now have) a vaccine for polio and covid. That's important. The point of doing an effective and humane shutdown is to prevent the staggering loss of life we've seen which affected not only covid patients themselves but anyone else who needed hospital care until a vaccine was produced.  A strong early lockdown would've likely made future lockdowns unnecessary or merely local. Places where lockdowns were both effective and accompanied by provisions for citizens have both tended to have greatly reduced, if not virtually zero, significant covid spread and did not witness upticks in depression or suicide. The fact that America couldn't figure this out doesn't mean that there was no solution. (Someone also raised population as the smoking gun explanation for those countries' low case numbers, but it's not. Vietnam, for example, has roughly the population of my state but a fraction the total cases of my county.) I'll reiterate the point I'm making. The spread of covid could've been largely if not completely prevented by a quicker response by governments globally, eg by shutting down for a 4-6 weeks and paying people to stay home. Instead, they chose to delay and prioritize the smooth functioning of business over people's lives and longterm health, and selfish Americans in particular prioritized their banal sense of normalcy over everything else.
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