The Horrific Costs of Government Covid Policies
How much has the Covid-19 “pandemic” cost the U.S. economy? How about globally? What about economic costs to the average American family? To very poor families in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, especially those already at the near-starvation level? Have costs due to government-mandated Covid policies surpassed the benefits that those policies (ostensibly) were imposed to confer? Have government policies resulted in lives lost, and, if so, how many?
These are important questions for which it is difficult to find precise, cut-and-dried answers. One reason is that there are many complex variables involved in cost-benefit analyses of the multiplicity of Covid policies (lockdowns, quarantines, mask mandates, testing, vaccine passports, social-distancing, etc.) and the various degrees to which local, state, and national governments have imposed them.
The more troubling reason we don’t have satisfactory answers to these questions is that politicians and technocrats who have foisted these unprecedented, draconian restrictions on us have not even bothered to ask these questions. Having ramped up public hysteria with relentless Covid propaganda that amounts to pandemic porn, they have essentially said we will spend “whatever it costs” — even if it means money we don’t have, running up trillions of dollars of debt with which our children and grandchildren will be burdened — to spare us from the “existential threat” from a virus with a lethality little greater than that of the common flu.
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