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I would not have locked down the country in the first place. Lock downs only slow the spread, and for any infections that are avoided there is a corresponding avoidance of immunity. In the long run there is no difference, and after 10 months we probably have more current infections than if we hadn't locked down at all. I would have tried to balance the budget, or run surpluses in the good years running up to this crisis so we would have a healthier economy, and could better fund our healthcare system. I would have provided funds where the deaths were occurring in the long term care homes, let everyone else live their lives as they should. I would have made testing a priority, putting resources into finding out who has the virus, and isolating those who were likely to infect others, and actually using an informed approach to containing it. I would have encouraged people to become less sedentary, becoming stronger physically and mentally, and strengthening their immune systems to better fight the virus. If you wanted the crisis to last as long as possible, lock downs and public hysteria are the way to do it. If you want to give the next virus the best possible start, destroying your economy and healthcare system is the way to do it. Of course the longer you make the infection last, the more variances the virus is likely to produce, which is what we are seeing now.

If you wanted to cripple your healthcare system, you could build up a huge waiting list for life saving procedures, then close the hospitals. This would greatly increase the potential for more procedures being required. Of course you would loose a few, but those who survived would now be require more treatments, so it would be a net gain. You could also have your doctors widely prescribe opiods for pain relief, making people dependent on them. Since the drugs they are now dependent on come from outside the country, you could close the borders, forcing the users to rely on more toxic local drugs. Of course some would die, but there would be lots left to fill available hospital beds. You could make your population more sedentary, by telling them to stay home. Closing the hospitals denying necessary joint replacements that would keep people mobile would also help. You could blame covi19 for filling the hospitals, of course no is going to do the math and call you a liar. You could traumatize the people by telling them that a viral infection that is killing millions, and filling the streets with bodies. Of course people wouldn't be stepping over dead bodies as they navigate the sidewalks, but if you keep saying over and over, people will believe you. This would cause a deterioration of mental health in general, and the people's sense of well being, and gain a lot of demand for healthcare services. You could increase the government debt, allowing it to take a larger portion of the government funding pie. You could also decrease the size of the pie by driving your businesses into bankruptcy, raising unemployment and generally decreasing your tax base. It seems that our governments are hitting on all cylinders.

This is so true. Government actions are killing so many, and doing no good at all. The elderly are dying from isolation, spouses are being abused and people are dying because of the earlier hospital closures. The lockdowns globally are causing a doubling of world poverty, and a doubling of world wide child malnutrition. Children in poor countries are starving to death because of international measures that our government is part of. The question is, is our government doing this knowingly which is criminal, or are they unaware of the damage which would make them incompetent?

Well said. For months I have been telling of the costs of the lock downs. Lock downs are a trade off at best, with any delayed infections, being also delayed immunity. Over a period of time time there is no difference, but while people are trying to hide, people were dying from hospitals being shut down, opioid dependent people using toxic drugs because of border shut downs, people especially the elderly being isolated, and sedentary, dying of loneliness. Our children were shut out of their schools, and told that they might die, abused partners locked in with their abusers, the economy decimated, and a doubling of world poverty and a doubling of world child malnutrition. People will say that it was the politicians that did all this, but they rely on the support of the people, so all who knowingly supported them in these atrocities are complicit, and also to blame.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/ While no two NDEs are the same, there are characteristic features that are commonly observed in NDEs. These characteristics include a perception of seeing and hearing apart from the physical body, passing into or through a tunnel, encountering a mystical light, intense and generally positive emotions, a review of part or all of their prior life experiences, encountering deceased loved ones, and a choice to return to their earthly life. Doesn't seem cruel, or like a door slamming shut in their face.

Since you have all the answers, and are so in touch with reality, what is your insight on near death experiences?

New hope for man made environmental change that will help the Sahara produce more oxygen, and deplete more carbon. TAP has designed a continental fresh-water pipeline to cross the Sahel area of Africa, beginning in the west in Mauritania, and culminating in the east at the Red Sea. TAP's pipeline is the first and only permanent solution to perennial drought throughout the Sahel and will mitigate the encroachment of the desert. Currently, thousands of hectares of land are lost to desertification every year across the Sahel countries of Africa. Conceived and launched in Toronto, Canada, the Trans Africa Pipeline Inc. is a not-for-profit organization working in collaboration with the 11-country Pan African Great Green Wall (PAGGW) agency. TAP is also working with individual Sahel countries and with our U.S. charitable organization, the TAP Foundation U.S. The Trans Africa Pipeline (TAP) project involves constructing an 8,000 km. fresh water pipeline (1.2 m to 1.5 m diameter) crossing 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. TAP's mission is to provide a sustainable supply of clean water for people and agriculture and support the goal of the Pan African Great Green Wall agency that involves the planting of millions of trees across a land corridor established by the 11 member countries. https://transafricapipeline.org/inside.php?page=about

Hope for returning the Sahara desert to being an oxygen producing, carbon reducing environment. TAP has designed a continental fresh-water pipeline to cross the Sahel area of Africa, beginning in the west in Mauritania, and culminating in the east at the Red Sea. TAP's pipeline is the first and only permanent solution to perennial drought throughout the Sahel and will mitigate the encroachment of the desert. Currently, thousands of hectares of land are lost to desertification every year across the Sahel countries of Africa. Conceived and launched in Toronto, Canada, the Trans Africa Pipeline Inc. is a not-for-profit organization working in collaboration with the 11-country Pan African Great Green Wall (PAGGW) agency. TAP is also working with individual Sahel countries and with our U.S. charitable organization, the TAP Foundation U.S. The Trans Africa Pipeline (TAP) project involves constructing an 8,000 km. fresh water pipeline (1.2 m to 1.5 m diameter) crossing 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. TAP's mission is to provide a sustainable supply of clean water for people and agriculture and support the goal of the Pan African Great Green Wall agency that involves the planting of millions of trees across a land corridor established by the 11 member countries. https://transafricapipeline.org/inside.php?page=about Of course this solution could be applied elsewhere. Man has the potential to make beneficial change.

What if death is not an end, but a transformation. What if death is not the most horrible end, but just a homecoming.

I'd feel safer if they weren't writing cheques on our joint bank account.

A great idea to stop the advancement of the Sahara, provide water for drought ravaged countries, and help lessen greenhouse gases, but will itt ever happen? TAP has designed a continental fresh-water pipeline to cross the Sahel area of Africa, beginning in the west in Mauritania, and culminating in the east at the Red Sea. TAP's pipeline is the first and only permanent solution to perennial drought throughout the Sahel and will mitigate the encroachment of the desert. Currently, thousands of hectares of land are lost to desertification every year across the Sahel countries of Africa. Conceived and launched in Toronto, Canada, the Trans Africa Pipeline Inc. is a not-for-profit organization working in collaboration with the 11-country Pan African Great Green Wall (PAGGW) agency. TAP is also working with individual Sahel countries and with our U.S. charitable organization, the TAP Foundation U.S. The Trans Africa Pipeline (TAP) project involves constructing an 8,000 km. fresh water pipeline (1.2 m to 1.5 m diameter) crossing 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. TAP's mission is to provide a sustainable supply of clean water for people and agriculture and support the goal of the Pan African Great Green Wall agency that involves the planting of millions of trees across a land corridor established by the 11 member countries. https://transafricapipeline.org/inside.php?page=about

Water can be heated to 700 degrees fahrenheit , if a very small amount of super heated water was injected into the center of a cancerous tumor, it would burn the cells it came into contact with, and the burn would spread. A small amount of water could kill a much greater amount of tumor. There would be no incision, and inoperable tumors could be treated. Also water is nontoxic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_water#:~:text=Superheated water is liquid water,C (705 °F).&text=Over the superheated temperature range,expected by increasing temperature alone. Superheated water is liquid water under pressure at temperatures between the usual boiling point, 100 °C (212 °F) and the critical temperature, 374 °C (705 °F). It is also known as "subcritical water" or "pressurized hot water."

This article was posted 7 weeks ago. Where are Canada’s rapid at-home coronavirus tests? Infectious disease experts have been asking themselves — and public health officials — this for months. “If every Canadian had that in their medicine cabinet, we might be able to test our way out of this,” said Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. https://globalnews.ca/news/7469571/coronavirus-canada-rapid-at-home-tests/

You are willing to judge God, I am not. I have more questions than answers, you have more answers than questions, who is more likely to find the truth?

I say that we are missing some infections because we aren't doing enough testing. Some people have no symptoms, so won't necessarily be tested. Knowledge of a problem is one of the best tools in resolving it, we need more knowledge of where the virus is. Lock downs will not make for less obesity, or less heart disease.

I don't say isolate the vulnerable. When you choose to speak for others, you should be more accurate. I say test as many as you can, and isolate those who are likely to infect others. 4 hours ago, Boges said: The reason the Death toll in the US is so high is that a lot of Americans are vulnerable. isn't that partly because of the lock downs?

Henry Ford said 'Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.' Lets hope that we can find some people who think we can, people who will do the best they can with the people and resources we have. I have faith in the people who are looking for solutions, not cowering from the difficulties they face. Here is something to consider about lock downs though. Our governments pay for the cost of providing their services in part through income tax. They effectively use part of your earnings for the benefit of all. When a government runs a deficit they borrow money to address the shortfall. In order to borrow money you need to have collateral. The government's collateral is their ability to tax your future income. Every month that they run a deficit is another month that they are selling more of your (and your children's) future earnings to their lenders.

Are you saying that we shouldn't do what we can, because it might be too hard? Just let the people die we can't help you.

I'm okay with our elected officials traveling abroad, I just wish they wouldn't keep coming back.

Cheers

When a caterpillar goes into a cocoon, that is the end of the caterpillar, but there is still the butterfly.

Might not be a direct flight. You might not like the layover.

You seem to have a firm grip on the obscure and absurd. Don't let trying to see the big picture take that away from you.

Laws are actually made to force people to avoid harming others. The government could find accommodation for those unable to unable to manage it on their own.

If we did more testing and isolating the appropriate people, maybe we wouldn't need a long term solution. Big picture we need a healthy economy to provide a healthy health care system. Now is not the time to save face, now is the time to save lives.