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tableplay
As was stated at the beginning of the "pandemic" by many of us here at VCT, the lockdowns caused a huge number of deaths from suicide,drug abuse/alcoholism, and the inability to get health care service for non-Covid-19 health issues - dwarfing the deaths caused by covid-19 itself.
And the healthcare system would have melted down in a way we didn't begin to see if there has been 0 lockdowns/mask wearing. Granted, it would have been over quicker but really no one knows. "Dwarfing" is exceptionally questionable. Lets look up suicide rates... as I don't think that many people drank themselves to death that quickly nor were there that many ODs.
Actually LOL google suicide rates during pandemic. They actually went DOWN. That seems to be the consensus.
That leaves the lack of healthcare, which is also uhm debatable.
Were people denied healthcare due to lockdowns? Physicians etc can put up whatever rules they wish. Can you even show me a law/lockdown that prevented people from having healthcare?
Collectivism isn't like some evil that is anti-Western. The US could use a bit more to help stay competitive with China. Just because government suggests things doesn't mean you have to be anti.
If we consider what would have happened without any measures, one thing for certain is healthcare would have been MUCH worse for those who caught COVID during that time as healthcare would have been slammed in a way we have never seen.