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Democrats Say Why They’ve Joined Republicans to Protest Lockdowns
In November, about 30 states reported sharp increases in COVID-19 cases, including Illinois, where Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a new set of restrictions. Museums and indoor dining were among the closures.
Svenningsen, a chemical engineer, said he decided to look into the data himself.
He found the fatality rate lower than he thought. It is currently about 0.6 percent in the United States, according to Reuters. Svenningsen noted that among deaths reported as COVID-19-related, many occur along with preexisting conditions. He also saw that many of those deaths are among the elderly and people with comorbidity.
Instead of a statewide lockdown, he said, it would be better to isolate vulnerable people and allow the rest more freedom.
“I began to realize, oh my gosh, we are going about this all wrong. Hysteria has completely taken over,” Svenningsen said.
“If people are scared, they’re more likely to turn on the news, and then that rewards the news for scaring them. … Once we get scared, we can overreact if we don’t understand what all this data is really showing.”
His roommate, a massage therapist, went without any income for months and fell behind on her medical bills and loan payments. “How is she ever going to get out of this?” he said.
He also noted other harmful impacts of lockdowns, such as mental stress and drug overdose.
“These are going to have huge repercussions in the future for a lot of people,” he said.
Svenningsen shared his new understanding with many of his left-leaning friends, but it was hard. “I have lost what feels like a lot of friends over it,” he said. “I’m in a weird boat where I feel like the left has left me.”
Glen, another liberal Chicagoan, who declined to disclose his last name, also lost friends over his opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns. Among them were three very close friends, he said.
In his social circle, Glen said he’s the only one with a science degree. He’s a nurse at a local hospital.
“[My friends] would dig up news articles about how lockdowns are good. In most cases, these were opinion pieces by journalists who had no education in science,” Glen told The Epoch Times while attending the anti-lockdown rally on Dec. 5. He was wearing a mask that covered all but his eyes, which he said was to protect his identity for fear of losing his job.
“When I countered with actual science journals, statistics, and data, I would just be told that I’m a QAnon conspiracy theorist
This is crazy, the CIA has weaponized any disagreement of policy and science. Now one canny state science and be believed
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