[quote Emergency73]@Wreath21
So why were half of humanity across the globe in lockdown in 2020, and practically every country in Europe?
I agree with what you are saying, and the whole pandemic has brought out some of the worst in human behaviour. But at the very least we still have life. We can still breath, think, feel - and have - if not now, but in some years time - opportunity. I lost my better paid job during the pandemic and am one of the delivery drivers that you speak of, and I deliver to the wealthy houses that you speak of. But I’m alive, my family are alive and I am bloody grateful for that. And I hope to continue with my profession in the future.
If you look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - there are certain building blocks that need to be in place before you can achieve fulfilment. At the very basic level you need a life, you need access to healthcare, safety, food, shelter, warmth before you can achieve a quality of life.
If the whole globe had carried on as normal, no intervention - where would we be?
And on a personal level here, someone very, very close to me needed urgent hospital care during the pandemic and just got there in time as the Covid cases in their hospital subsided. She would have died had Covid been allowed to spread unchecked.[/quote]
Restrictions, globally, could have been better managed (less damaging and distressing, giving less of an opportunity to abusers and grifters) if they hadn't been infused with so much moral panic. But, to a greater or lesser extent, the worse governments deliberately built puritanism into their approaches - the obsession with deciding what was and was not essential (decisions almost entirely made by wealthy men who outsourced things like childcare and domestic work) kept the public busy scolding and snitching on each other. There was almost no focus on what practical measures would genuinely help (air scrubbers in particular), and even mentioning them tended to lead to accusations of selfishness and being a eugenicist.