New Hampshire’s Sun-King, Chris I-Am-The-Constitution Sununu, has declared VICTORY over the corona … see his tweet below. What’s that you say? That the Sun-King is saying just the opposite … that it’s too early to declare VICTORY? Give me a break! Sun-King wouldn’t have used the term VICTORY if he wasn’t declaring victory.
He’s simply hedging in case there is another wave (which there won’t be).
And make no mistake … Sun-King is declaring that the VICTORY is his. And make no mistake … this claim, like virtually everything else Sun-King Sununu has said about COVID over the past two years, is NOT true.
COVD numbers are down because at this point 80 percent of Americans have had some form of COVID. We have reached “herd immunity.”
Everything that the Sun-King did to “protect us” from COVID did nothing to protect us from COVID.
You may have heard of the recent Johns Hopkins study that found that lockdowns were useless and harmful:
lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. … While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
The use of lockdowns is a unique feature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have not been used to such a large extent during any of the pandemics of the past century. However, lockdowns during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have had devastating effects. They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal democracy. These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis has shown are marginal at best. Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.
And even the “mainstream” press are admitting that mask-mandates did NOT work either. For example, from Bloomberg:
states with mask mandates haven’t fared significantly better than the 35 states that didn’t impose them during the omicron wave. Rhode Island, where I live, has had a mask mandate since mid-December; nonetheless, we saw our January surge rise far higher than any other state. There’s little evidence that mask mandates are the primary reason the pandemic waves eventually fall — though much of the outrage over lifting mandates is based on that assumption.
Sun-King should not be declaring victory. He should be admitting his approach was WRONG and he should APOLOGIZE, profusely. As should those who cheered him on the past two years.
