Pandemics: Public Health, So-Called "Free-Thinkers", and 'Comparing Apples and Oranges'
Those who vehemently oppose the lockdowns and aggressively advocate that state of emergency measures be lifted prematurely tend to push and hold most if not all of these extremely confused and contradictory narratives: 1) Sue China, everything is their fault, they created the Coronavirus, etc. 2) The virus is not real. The pandemic is a hoax and the lockdowns are "authoritarian,", "fascist", and/or "totalitarian". 3) Praise Sweden for their "herd immunity", no-lockdown approach where "no one has died". 4) It's just like the flu. Everyone is just overreacting. Those people who died were really old or unhealthy anyway. 5) The flu is more deadly, more people die from it. The deaths are exaggerated and/or have been falsified to claim that this patient died from the Coronavirus! Nevermind the fact that "herd immunity" -- which 'anti-lockdown' libertarians advocate for without a vaccine -- reeks o