Dennis Prager: The lockdown has gone from a mistake to a crime – IOTW Report

Dennis Prager: The lockdown has gone from a mistake to a crime

BPR:

Four months ago, I wrote a column titled “The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History.” I explained that “‘mistake’ and ‘evil’ are not synonyms. The lockdown is a mistake; the Holocaust, slavery, communism, fascism, etc., were evils. Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.”

Regarding the economic catastrophe in America and around the world — especially among the world’s poor who are dependent upon America and other first-world countries for their income through exports and tourism — I wrote, “It is panic and hysteria, not the coronavirus, that created this catastrophe.”

Unfortunately, I was right.

The world should have followed Sweden’s example. That country never locked down and has even kept children under 16 in school the entire time. As Reuters reported on July 15, the number of Swedish children between 1 and 19 years of age who have died of COVID-19 is zero. And the percentage of children who contracted the illness was the exact same in Sweden as it was in Finland, which locked down its schools.

As regards teachers, Sweden’s Public Health Agency reported that “a comparison of the incidence of COVID-19 in different professions suggested no increased risk for teachers.” Nevertheless, with few exceptions, teachers in Los Angeles and elsewhere refuse to enter a classroom that has students in it. Their disdain for their profession has been superseded only by that of the Los Angeles teachers union, which announced that teachers will not resume teaching until the police are defunded.

People who defend lockdowns and closing schools point out that Sweden has the eighth-highest death rate per million in the Western world. But, needless to say, this has no bearing at all on the issue of whether Sweden was right to keep schools open or whether our country was wrong to close them, let alone keep them closed now. The overwhelming majority of deaths from COVID-19 in Sweden were among people over 70 years of age, and most of those were people over 80 and with compromised immune systems. more

13 Comments on Dennis Prager: The lockdown has gone from a mistake to a crime

  1. It’s just a flu bug that happens to be hard on some people with preexisting medical problems, but not all of them. Actually less than .o5% of them.
    I had two tumors on my right kidney and had it removed two years ago. I also have heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and asthma. I caught Covid and was sick for 2 weeks. I got over it on my own and I didn’t panic because I treated it like the flu that it is. People allowed themselves to be turned into sheep with a lot of help from the MSM and Democrats looking to dethrone Trump. That’s all there is to it.

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  2. I think Dennis Prager is one of the wisest men alive, but in this case he is wrong. This terrorist attack disguised as a pandemic has been evil from day one. It was never a mistake. The evil leftists knew exactly what they were doing. It is 100% political and always was.

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  3. And it isn’t just the ‘lockdowns’ that are a crime, it’s the notion that Governors have the right to decide who is essential and who is not.

    THAT is a clear violation of the 5th Amendment to The Constitution.

    To me, this alone warrants action by Congress, The President and the Supreme Court. I don’t care how it gets done. It has to stop.

    WE. ARE. NOT. OUR. GOVERNOR’S SUBJECTS!

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  4. gotta give it to them …. they did a great job of shutting down the modern world. they didn’t do it w/ guns, tanks, planes, bombs, armies or navies.

    it was done to our most basic modern fear, that of dying. our nihilistic beliefs, no longer trusting in a greater power, was used against us w/ devastating effect.

    we were willing, like sheep to the slaughter, to obey & shut down our schools, businesses, health care, livelihoods. mandating such inane, stupid rules that we must obey ‘for our own good’ …. putting our lives on hold until ‘our betters’ deemed we could resume such simple acts as saying ‘hello’ to our neighbors or taking our kids to a park.

    after all this time & all the proof that the ‘experts’ knew little more than the rest of us … & had less common sense, to boot … we are still being led by these Nimrods playing Lord & Master. they make the rules for us, but don’t bother to follow them for themselves.

    we peasants, otoh, knew this from jump street. we knew they were lying to us. we knew that every virus that we’ve ever lived through needs to run it’s course & for the human race to develop herd immunity …. it is the only thing that works …. throughout history

    years ago, this could not have happened. our ancestors would have stormed the barricades, crossed the Delaware, stood at the wall. they have taken us over & our children … we have become too comfortable in our modern life & they have made us too yearningly dependent.

    yes, we knew … yet we still bowed down, & like good little Nazis, did what we were told.

    welcome to the Brave New World, comrade … now, pass the Soma

    btw, Emmanuel Goldstein is Orange Man Bad!

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  5. Illustr8r,
    Thank you for your kind words.
    I was aware of the potential for dire circumstances but I don’t believe in panicking right away. Even when I had the cancer tumors I didn’t let it get me down. Depression can be more harmful than illness. I’m more worried about a Democrat in the Whitehouse than COVID. I’m not sure what God’s plan for me is just yet but I know I’m not ready to check out. Maybe I’m supposed to donate convalescent plasma now that I survived COVID.

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