First, our economic health has been severely weakened. Our nation was already a teetering ship economically prior to the forced lockdowns and shutdown of the world economy, but thanks to the governmental response and our collective acceptance of it, our national debt increased nearly 9 Trillion Dollars—5 Trillion of that was from 2020 alone. Our supply chain was severely disrupted, and the economic pump still needs some priming in order to get it flowing again.
Secondly our children’s academic health has suffered. Face masks inhibit communication. Young children learning to speak and read missed valuable opportunities to learn proper articulation, pronunciation, and facial and emotional discernment because of the masks. Children literally missed several months to a year or more in their academic progress. This loss will be nearly impossible to overcome and will cause less productivity and innovation in our nation’s future.
Thirdly, our mental health suffered. Isolation, lack of human contact and touch, less social interaction— these lead to depression, anxiety, loneliness, and other maladies of the mind. Humans are social creatures in need of contact. We became a nation of scaredy cats (or were revealed as one). The forced lockdowns did severe, and possibly, irreparable harm to our collective mental health.
What about our spiritual health? Churches were shut down-even when they made very reasonable accommodations to the pandemic—like meeting outside or in cars in a parking lot. The government overreach was despicable!
Finally, our physical health suffered. Children missed already scheduled vaccinations because of closed medical offices, adults missed diagnostic tests, screenings, and regular checkups that could have prevented cancer, heart problems, stroke, diabetes…. Was the health trade worth it? I say no. Should we have implemented common sense practices to actually slow the spread? Absolutely! Wash your hands, stay home when feverish or likely contagious, sleep, exercise, take supplements, eat right—sure. But stay home, wear a mask, don’t touch, don’t visit grandma or friends—absolutely not!
I’m sure I missed some things as I am musing and rambling, but I need to express myself.
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Rachelle Walensky: “CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the change was also motivated by economic and societal concerns. “With a really large anticipated number of cases [from omicron], we also want to make sure we can keep the critical functions of society open and operating,” she told NPR Tuesday. “We can’t take science in a vacuum. We have to put science in the context of how it can be implemented in a functional society.” Where was this logic during 2019 amid business shutdowns and closings?
“The CDC’s guidance updates come at the end of a long first month with the omicron variant. State and industry leaders have pushed for a reduced isolation period, blaming the lengthy at-home stay for worker shortages that have led to thousands of cancelled flights, postponed sports games and events and restaurant closures.
The change in guidance to the public expands on reduced isolation and quarantine periods for health care workers, introduced last week. Where there are staffing shortages, the CDC recommends infected workers isolate for five days before returning. In crisis times, they say – workers should go to work even if they’re sick with COVID-19.
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PS: Omicron may be a Godsend in that eveyone is going to get covid, but few, if any, will have life-threatening symptoms. Maybe we will actually reach herd immunity soon???
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