A leading columnist for the Washington Post just wrote: “Hantavirus has an incubation period of up to 8 weeks and kills 30-40% of people who show symptoms….It’s not pandemic yet and probably won’t be, but if it were, the rational action would be—lockdown.” She added: “If this thing goes pandemic, I personally will be hiding in my house.”
Yes, and let the workers and peasants deliver food and drink to you while you safely type and tell the rest of us what to do. We know how this works.
Keep in mind that no one thought this way a quarter century ago. No one was pushing for society-wide lockdowns in the event of a pandemic.
That changed in 2005. I wrote an article about it at the time. It was my first foray into commentary on pandemic planning. I can recall my shock that George W. Bush gave a presser in which he pushed for lockdowns. I was even more shocked that more people were not alarmed.
I wrote the following article reprinted below. So far as I know, I was alone in raising protest against this insanity. Here we are 20-plus years later and “lockdown until vaccinate” is the presumed protocol.
Hellbound and Down 