27 Questions You Need To Ask About Covid Lockdowns

It seems the medical field has spooked the governments all over the world to take drastic action over the killer corona virus. Because of bureaucratic thinking, the world leaders had no choice but to go into lock down and show the world that they were equally concerned and not backward in protecting human lives.

It did not matter if these steps made millions of men and women jobless, businesses go broke, airline companies collapse, cruise operators and tourism shut up shop. It did not matter what happened to the economy and what happens to people's lives as a consequence. The main aim was to save human beings at any cost. How can anyone criticize or argue against such a noble cause?

But how can this horrendous cost be justified when the result at the end is not clear at all? It isn't going great post to read seem to be a rational decision for me. Should the steps taken stopped or eradicated the disease or killed the virus, one could understand the lock down. But it only slows down the spread of the virus. Once the lock down is lifted, like any viral illness, the infection must eventually spread through society, killing many individuals the way Influenza virus did until individuals developed immunity against it. Unfortunately, those among us with a weak immune system would undoubtedly be the hardest hit.

In my mind, it really is the bureaucratic thinking that has created this problem for us. So what is bureaucratic thinking? It is simplistic thinking employed through governments, businesses, institutions and professionals all over the world, where one goes by only the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law. In it, there's absolutely no utilization of ethics, morals or common sense. One is just not permitted to think for oneself. All you will need to do is follow the preset rules. It is designed to absolve the person associated with any complicated thinking or feeling of guilt because if you followed the letter of the law, your actions tend to be considered correct. No one could blame you if anything went wrong. It induces bullying and authoritative sort of behavior in certain individuals.

So when the doctors first confronted the corona virus infection, their immediate response was to isolate the people impacted by the virus. The medical advice to the government would be to take urgent action. They warned them that if they did not take immediate action, there will be a huge number of individuals dead and the medical facilities will not be able to cope. Please remember the health care industry isn't going to care about what happens to the economy or what happens to people's lives whenever you have a lock down. Their only concern is to save human lives.

Now the federal government is placed in a situation where they can be damned should they listened to this advice or damned whenever they did not. To ignore this advice could be political suicide. They had to show the world that they were more concerned with saving human lives than protecting the economy. They had no choice.

Thus we have been now under lock-down with more bureaucratic restrictions and control everywhere. Politicians are justifying their actions by bragging about flattening the curve of the spread of the virus. You don't have to be a prophet to predict this because we have all stopped socializing. They are, bear in mind, ignoring the rising curve of massive unemployment and economic disaster. It really is time they started looking at the economy and what is happening to the individuals around them. The lock down cannot go on forever. One must expect the curve to rise in the event the lock down is lifted. Are we going to go into lock down each time a whole new virus attacks society this way? Should we not prepare ourselves with more field hospitals, quarantine camps etc. in the future or even now?

The government is continuously listening to the advice from medical experts who can only think in one way, and which is the bureaucratic way. They can not think in almost any other way. These doctors are just concerned with saving lives at any cost. They do not care about the economy or what happens to the individuals who lose their jobs. If governments keep listening to these experts, how can we possibly arrive at a sensible approach to managing this problem? Why cannot we isolate people that are susceptible and infectious, and allow the rest of the community live their normal life? Eventually, the government has to decide and bite the bullet.