The initial purpose of the lockdown was to “flatten the curve,” which meant preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed. That would not prevent infections, and would not “save lives,” beyond by allowing everyone who was infected and needed treatment to be treated.
The curve-flattening agenda was presented by Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, based on data that we now know was fake. Or perhaps a “miscalculation,” if we believe that prominent authorities on these topics were capable of being this wrong.
No one denies that Ferguson was so horribly wrong. By the last week of March – that’s nearly six weeks ago, for the record – Ferguson had adjusted down his numbers and said that there was now no chance of the virus overwhelming hospitals.
For reasons that continue to be unclear, we’ve remained locked in our houses.
Apparently, the authorities knew that no one really understood that “flatten the curve” simply meant drawing out the number of hospitalizations over a longer period of time, and so they decided to make the lockdown about “preventing new infections.”
What that obviously means is that this can just go on forever.
Many politicians, including the fat Jew governor of Illinois, are arguing for and implementing an indefinite lockdown. The original purpose of the lockdown is no longer mentioned.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Sunday announced 2,994 new cases of the coronavirus in Illinois, the second-highest daily total since the pandemic began. But the governor also said 19,417 new tests for the coronavirus were completed within the previous 24 hours through Sunday afternoon, the most screenings yet across the state.
As Chicagoans and Illinois residents enjoyed the second straight day of warm spring weather, the governor again implored people to adhere to the state’s stay-at-home order. With restrictions in place since mid-March, some weary residents drawn outside by ample sunshine and temperatures in the 70s began to stretch the boundaries or simply ignore the statewide rules.
A northwest Illinois church held services despite the restrictions, others held weekend parties and people began to abandon or relax social distancing practices during visits with friends and trips to parks and other gatherings. A group of DuPage County mayors and managers plans to urge the state to allow businesses there to open before the statewide order ends, saying a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t make sense.
Pritzker’s order, which was relaxed Friday to provide more flexibility for some businesses and activities, remains in place until May 30.
“People need to follow the rules,” the governor said. “People will get sick if they don’t follow the rules.”
Pritzker urged local governments and police departments to help enforce the state’s stay-at-home guidelines. The goal, he said, is safety and health, not crackdowns or arrests.
“There’s no other way for us to do it,” he said. “We need the public to comply with the stay-at-home rule. Because that is how we’ve been defeating coronavirus.”
Pritzker also reminded young people that even if they do not get sick, or contract a mild case of coronavirus, they are putting older relatives and friends, or those they know who have medical conditions that make them more vulnerable to the virus, at risk.
It’s very funny that after all this time, they’re finally admitting that the entire thing was about the extremely elderly. They’ve totally backed off the kook hysteria line about how young healthy people were going to die of this virus.
Everything that I said in March is now being discussed openly by the government.
Everything else that I’ve discussed will also come to pass.