It's obvious what is being conveyed here, and I question the intellectual honesty of your statement. I posit that by "playing dumb," you hoped to be able to convey the notion that there's no "obvious" message here.
Being on lockdown is making people ill and driving them crazy. This is being compounded by the cognitive dissonance embraced by half of the media-consuming world, which is telling them that their attacker is a respiratory virus, and not their local, state, and national governments.
Many people live in a society today where, saying this to the wrong person could get you injured, ostracized, or even killed - or, you may even get branded with the worst noun of all: racist. Anxiety is clearly through the roof everywhere you turn - now, I wonder why this is?
Are we actually going to go around thinking that these high-anxiety times haven't contributed to peoples' illnesses?
I hope you are not so cocksure in every part of your life. It helps sometimes to understand what the other person is saying in more details than jumping to conclusions and then responding with emotions.
I take it that you are challenging my intellectual honesty, I am unsure about your intellectual curiosity.
There was nothing more that had to be said by the parent. You were - quite clearly - trying to discredit the parent poster for making a very reasonable statement.
I am not moved at all by your "hopes." I am quite certain that I am right. I would not have written anything, otherwise. But of course, that's none of your business - my words are more than enough to convey the meaning I intend, as are yours, and as were the parent poster's.
My intellectual curiosity is what allowed me to land on both of my feet and look at the COVID situation for what it really is. It wasn't hard and it only takes some "distancing" from corporate media sources to see what's going on.
I totally get what he is trying to say. It is becoming so obvious after 8 months of social isolation, lockdowns and a ton of toxicity in the community. The aftermath of this "lets lock down everything to protect a few" strategy is going to be horrible. Not just economically. Lockdown lovers seem to think people are machines that you can turn off and on whenever you like. Thats not the case.
That we live in a stressful time, which we are being reminded of constantly, and lockdown (With its restricted social interaction) is hard on mental health.
I don't think anyone disagrees that lockdown is hard on people. The cost of lockdown is worth it, but lets not pretend that its free.
Sweden, without COVID lockdowns, is on track for fewer deaths in 2020 than 2018.
The country also has a lower COVID deathtoll per capita than Belgium, Italy, USA.
Lockdown is not a solution. Dealing with air pollution (ending the burning of coal and oil) and obesity (banning and taxing added sugar) would yield significantly greater benefits and require much less cost and effort.
So can thousands of people dying all around you. Lockdowns are much, much better than seeing grandparents or parents die in over-exerted hospitals, seeing already sick children or young people who were managing their diabetes, congenital heart conditions, cancers, HIV infections etc. suddenly taken by this horrible, preventable disease.
