Doctors are just doctors. Even if there was a medical justification for keeping the lockdowns exactly as long as they have been, the economic, political, sociological, legal, and moral justifications also play a role, and that's where you start to see a serious problem due to the long tail of lockdown after-effects.
Economically, the rich have been getting much richer and the poor have been getting much poorer as a result of COVID, since the rich have largely been able to continue doing the things that made them rich, where many of the poor were forced into unemployment and handed money that quickly became worth much less becuase there just wasn't as much stuff to buy. Inflation is eating the wages and savings of the poor and middle-class, we've experienced shortages in many areas and it's appearing that we're going to see worse shortages as the long tail of lockdowns works its way through supply chains.
Politically, political polarization became even worse than it already was thanks to the draconian nature of the lockdowns and the extreme means required to implement them. The rhetoric against unvaccinated was eerily similar to rhetoric against the Jews in Nazi Germany. It also led to weakness in the western powers -- why do you think Russia chose this moment to invade Ukraine? Because the west threw itself upon its sword and wasn't prepared to deal with something like Ukraine.
Sociologically, there's effects we won't even be able to measure completely for 20 years. We know that the lockdowns caused many children to be massively developmentally stunted. Everyone in the cohort, from babies whose development was stunted to a degree that makes them practically subhuman to teenagers who were not prepared for college because the school lockdowns resulted in pathetically bad education such that high school graduates had to drop out of college.
Legally, the governments usually lacked the legal framework to do anything like the lockdowns, so where there was a bill of rights or constitution, the government violated those en masse so they could get what they wanted, which is a major step in the slide to tyranny.
Morally, it's extremely questionable if any leader can justly cause all the harm enumerated above and more at all. The long tail of lockdown policies will likely result in far more suffering than covid itself.
This is why technocracy is bad. A technocrat who is an "expert" on one thing isn't an expert on everything. They may know a lot about infectious diseases, but they won't know about childhood development, agriculture, economics, politics, sociology, law, or morality to the point that they can lead us.
Economically, the rich have been getting much richer and the poor have been getting much poorer as a result of COVID, since the rich have largely been able to continue doing the things that made them rich, where many of the poor were forced into unemployment and handed money that quickly became worth much less becuase there just wasn't as much stuff to buy. Inflation is eating the wages and savings of the poor and middle-class, we've experienced shortages in many areas and it's appearing that we're going to see worse shortages as the long tail of lockdowns works its way through supply chains.
Politically, political polarization became even worse than it already was thanks to the draconian nature of the lockdowns and the extreme means required to implement them. The rhetoric against unvaccinated was eerily similar to rhetoric against the Jews in Nazi Germany. It also led to weakness in the western powers -- why do you think Russia chose this moment to invade Ukraine? Because the west threw itself upon its sword and wasn't prepared to deal with something like Ukraine.
Sociologically, there's effects we won't even be able to measure completely for 20 years. We know that the lockdowns caused many children to be massively developmentally stunted. Everyone in the cohort, from babies whose development was stunted to a degree that makes them practically subhuman to teenagers who were not prepared for college because the school lockdowns resulted in pathetically bad education such that high school graduates had to drop out of college.
Legally, the governments usually lacked the legal framework to do anything like the lockdowns, so where there was a bill of rights or constitution, the government violated those en masse so they could get what they wanted, which is a major step in the slide to tyranny.
Morally, it's extremely questionable if any leader can justly cause all the harm enumerated above and more at all. The long tail of lockdown policies will likely result in far more suffering than covid itself.
This is why technocracy is bad. A technocrat who is an "expert" on one thing isn't an expert on everything. They may know a lot about infectious diseases, but they won't know about childhood development, agriculture, economics, politics, sociology, law, or morality to the point that they can lead us.
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