Walking and spitting tobacco juice

Vincent J. Curtis

23 Sept 21

RE: How COVID is devastating public health programs.  The Hamilton Spectator 23 Sept 21

I guess it takes a while for news to reach the remote fastness of the Hillbillies of Hamilton, but rural Albertans knew of the potential effects of excessive lockdowns back in April, 2020.  In that month, in a remarkable series of articles published in The Hill, Dr. Scott Atlas of the Hoover Institution described the effects of locking down the economy beyond a two week period.  He concluded that locking down beyond four weeks produced worse adverse health effects and cost more in terms of life-years lost than letting the pandemic run.

Among the adverse effects he noted are those mentioned in the Spectator article: a loss of childhood vaccination programs, a drop in public health inspections and the adverse effects of that, as well as rising loss of life from drug addiction, alcoholism, and domestic violence.

You have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, and the top-down government tyrannical control of everything prevented that.  If government had limited itself to providing accurate information and thrown the reins onto the neck of the horse, we’d have done much better.  You see, 99 percent of the world’s knowledge is possessed by the 99 percent of the population that don’t work for the government.  By going full communist control, the government blocked the application of the knowledge and genius of the 99 percent.  The few who worked for the government controlled everything, and they couldn’t walk and spit tobacco juice at the same time.

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