created by Fair-Engineering-134 on 26/01/2025 at 15:03 UTC*
89 upvotes, 14 top-level comments (showing 14)
Focused protection is taking the approach of targeting a pandemic response to those most at risk and who voluntarily accept said response, while allowing others to live freely. It has seemed like common sense to me since 2020, and I honestly can't see why anyone would object to this approach. Given that bird flu is apparently their new "pandemic" and most people already seem to be gravitating toward the universal "treat everyone as equal" Covid approach, I am baffled as to why nobody even considers or brings up focused protection, Any thoughts?
Comment by cloche_du_fromage at 26/01/2025 at 19:48 UTC
91 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Lockdown was a huge behavioural experiment that couldn't be missed.
Comment by hhhhdmt at 26/01/2025 at 20:11 UTC
75 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Because the "experts" and media wanted to lock society down for political reasons, to increase censorship, and to eventually force a pharmaceutical product on us.
This is why the media relentlessly pushed the idea that covid could effect everyone. People opposed The Great Barrington Declaration because tens of millions of young people (aged 20-55) thought they had a 5% chance of dying from covid.
When lefties said "you are trying to kill my grandma", what they really meant was "you are trying to kill me."
Comment by suitcaseismyhome at 26/01/2025 at 19:56 UTC
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Because I haven't seen any example where it was voluntary for those of us who are supposedly at greater risk during the height of the pandemic. I say supposedly, because as I pointed out here many times, my oncologist felt that I didn't have a greater risk. She continued to offer hugs to any of us who wanted physical contact during the pandemic. She also encouraged me to maintain my regular travel schedule during chemotherapy.
So, as someone who is supposedly at risk, I never felt the need to take these extra precautions.
And I was pretty much vilified for that here.
Germany had advertising in past years targeting the elderly for vaccination, but it was never mandatory in the advertising. At the same time, I was seeing advertising in the United States targeting school-age children.
So I suppose, in some countries, in the end, it was more targeted to those that are generally perceived at more at risk. But even my eighty eight year old relative in Germany said she hasn't seen the point in vaccination in the last few years.
Comment by Jkid at 26/01/2025 at 22:40 UTC
26 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It was so controversial because the people who supported lockdowns wanted to cargo cult what mainland china was doing
Comment by narwhalsnarwhals2 at 26/01/2025 at 20:18 UTC
22 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I had someone on another sub tell me that focused protection was an impossible pie in the sky plan as the elderly/immunocompromised still needed health care and there was a chance that they could be exposed to Covid when leaving home! Even with testing the risk was too great, so supposedly we needed lockdowns to reduce it enough.
Comment by PowerBottomBear92 at 26/01/2025 at 23:38 UTC
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There's groups like the WEF (Great Reset / Build Back Better fame) who will use any means necessary to reorder society and the global economy. Few if any scamdemic approaches were driven by real science, it was all scaremongering while various groups used the opportunity to rush through their own unpopular ideas
Comment by SunriseInLot42 at 27/01/2025 at 02:38 UTC
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Because focused protection doesn’t create huge economic effects, sell bazillions of vaccines, and create an unprecedented social experiment in seeing what outrageous measures the population is willing to put up with.
And specifically to Reddit, focused protection doesn’t enable antisocial basement-dwellers to work from home in their pajamas and avoid all social contact.
Comment by bearcatjoe at 27/01/2025 at 03:44 UTC
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Because the "experts" chose another strategy, and if it turns out there was an alternative that would have left us with similar health outcomes but less economic devastation, then they'll be blamed. In fact, they mostly are being blamed - mostly because they lost control of the narrative because their censorship attempts backfired.
Comment by mistressbitcoin at 26/01/2025 at 22:54 UTC*
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Because it was a proxy battle between individualism (capitalism) vs community (communism).
In the latter, everyone was assumed identical, stripping everyone of their identities... ie the masks.
Under such a system, there is no allowance for any deviation (focused protection).
Comment by GregoryHD at 27/01/2025 at 17:03 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Once you realize that Covid-19 was about the vaccine, then everything makes sense.
Comment by arnott at 27/01/2025 at 20:14 UTC
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Because, it would mean the "pandemic" was not a big deal.
Also, it was published in October 2020. The "pandemic" was needed for the November 2020 US elections.
Comment by DevilCoffee_408 at 28/01/2025 at 19:39 UTC
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probably because it went against the idea of "The hammer and the dance" and the establishment didn't like that. (remember that bullshit? it didn't age well at all.)
focused protection *should not* be so controversial.
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Comment by NullIsUndefined at 28/01/2025 at 05:41 UTC
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Possibly equity mindset. Everyone must suffer in our plan or it's not fair?