The only thing to do about the virus was to tell old and morbidly obese folks to be careful and then go about business as normal. If folks had done that herd immunity would have been achieved in a couple of months without destroying 30% of small business and totally wrecking the electoral process in many states. In California we now have 'print at home' ballots with no verification, signature or otherwise. The rules say anything can be a mark for 'accessibility' reasons, but in Los Angeles County there is no way to verity that any machines are looking at or comparing anything in the first place, so the point is moot.
Anyway, the Swedes had it right. Everyone who minimized the harmful responses had it right. The hysterical and supremely destructive responses seemed to be confined to those who hated Trump the most. Perhaps they were the ones 'weaponizing' covid? They're still the worst off when it comes to total welfare. And now, thanks to 'the science' they have the excess deaths of otherwise healthy folks to go along with it.
While a number of the things on the above list are correct (the list is also missing balancing budget, but I suppose he never even pledged that). But to ignore the fact that there is a positive causal relationship between severity of covid 'response' and the overall harm done to a community is willfully ignorant. Many folks saw that there was no cost/benefit analysis going on anywhere before 'lockdowns' were declared. There was no desire or rigorous process in place to minimize harm.
Withholding 'assistance' is the only reasonable path, though it shouldn't be done because of reciprocity issues. There should have been no 'assistance' for 'blue states' or for anyone who is expecting taxpayers of other states to bail them out for ill-advised self-destructive policies. Especially true when the bailouts are coming from inflationary funny money. Bad policies need to cause localized hardship so that the folks doing the bad policies are ousted. Paying their way out with fake money and kicking the can down the road to people in other geographic and temporal locations is totally irresponsible.
I was in Los Angeles the whole time with a father working in the ER and it was a disaster. The hospitals themselves were nearly put out of business because of the draconian shutdowns. All of us able-bodied folks were being to do nothing using funny money (which we're all now paying back through inflation). I know I wrote this already, but over 30% of small businesses went under. There are still people in Los Angeles not paying their rent under 'emergency' rules. We have the brain-dead dummies who watch state-and-big-pharma-sponsored garbage like Fox, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, PBS, HBO etc... to thank for all of it.
