{"id":385363,"date":"2021-12-24T06:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/well-never-end-covid-pandemic-if-politicians-keep-making-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2021-12-24T06:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:17:27","slug":"well-never-end-covid-pandemic-if-politicians-keep-making-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/well-never-end-covid-pandemic-if-politicians-keep-making-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"#We\u2019ll never end COVID pandemic if politicians keep making mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a373c03d7983\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a373c03d7983\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/well-never-end-covid-pandemic-if-politicians-keep-making-mistakes\/#Insidious_rules\" >Insidious rules\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/well-never-end-covid-pandemic-if-politicians-keep-making-mistakes\/#Emergencys_over\" >Emergency\u2019s over\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#We\u2019ll never end COVID pandemic if politicians keep making mistakes<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Five hundred and eighty one days ago, I wrote a column that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in these pages with a headline on the cover that read \u201cIt Needs To End. NOW.\u201d In May 2020 there were no COVID vaccines, and limited treatments, and yet already, many voices had begun to call out the excessive illiberal measures enacted by gubernatorial despots in our bluest states. A year and a half later, the results are in. The critics of lockdowns were right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at Sweden. Remember when it refused to lock down and liberal <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> anchors gravely warned that half the country would be dead by next Tuesday? You don\u2019t hear much about Sweden these days because, in fact, the Scandinavian naysayers had the lowest excess mortality of any European country this year \u2014 approximately 785 per 1million people. By comparison, the United Kingdom had 1,657 per million in excess deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sweden decided to do what other countries refused to: focus on protecting the most vulnerable while letting the vast majority who were not in mortal danger live as normal a life as possible and trust their sense of personal responsibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"People wait in a long line to get tested for COVID-19 in Times Square.\" class=\"wp-image-20602750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>People wait in a long line to get tested for COVID-19 in Times Square.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Seth Wenig<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Insidious_rules\"><\/span>Insidious rules\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>God willing, we will never again see the barren glass and steel valleys of abandoned Midtown Manhattan, nor walk again in the middle of wide avenues devoid of cars, but what has replaced those extreme measures in Gotham is in its own way more insidious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-small-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/front-cover-1224.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20603444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/front-cover-1224.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/front-cover-1224.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=346 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/front-cover-1224.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/front-cover-1224.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=115 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/front-cover-1224.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Quarantine rules make for a stealth lockdown, with visitors and workers out for more than a week if they happen to be near someone who had COVID. Mask rules that still make no sense \u2014 wear it coming through the door, but take it off at the table. Our kids outdoors, masked, distanced school lunches look like something out of a prisoner of war film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And why? Why hasn\u2019t New York gone back to relative normalcy like so many places our citizens are fleeing to? Now we are told to believe it is because of the Omicron variant. Never mind that this variant appears to have mainly mild symptoms akin to a common cold, especially in the vaccinated. Three new studies show that hospitalization is down as much as 80% with Omicron. But we refuse to accept the good news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A senior housing resident is tested for COVID-19 in 2020. \" class=\"wp-image-20602756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A senior housing resident is tested for COVID-19 in 2020. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ASSOCIATED PRESS \/ Seth Wenig<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And while the government performs theatrical mandates and throws more curveballs to small businesses, we still haven\u2019t learned the most important lesson of the pandemic: Protect the elderly. It never made any sense to keep children, who are low risk, out of school, but it was Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s edict forcing nursing homes to take COVID-positive patients that caused devastation. The vast, vast majority of deaths from COVID are among older people, especially those with comorbidities. People over 65 account for 80 percent of COVID deaths in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re making the same mistakes all over again. We shouldn\u2019t have widespread lockdowns or mask mandates, but we should say you need to be tested to go anywhere near a nursing home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Right now, you can walk in with only a vaccine and see a relative, but we know that people with vaccines can carry Omicron.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inability of New York\u2019s leaders to free themselves of pandemic hysteria, and all the broad power that comes with it, is eroding the city on every level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"People talk with the staff member of Radio City Music Hall after cancellations of The Rockettes performance due to COVID-19 cases.\" class=\"wp-image-20602748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nyc-covid1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>People talk with a staff member of Radio City Music Hall after cancellations of The Rockettes performance due to COVID-19 cases.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Yuki Iwamura<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>If enacting overly strict measures in May 2020 was a mistake, and it was, then doing so now, when anybody can get a vaccine and the extremely dominant variant is mild, is flat-out incompetence. Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Hochul have learned a lesson from COVID, but they haven\u2019t learned what is best for New York. Instead, they have learned how much New Yorkers will withstand, and by extension, how far their power reaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Teachers unions are pushing again for schools to close, again. Shows on Broadway are shuttering, again. Businesses are suffering, again. All when WE SHOULD KNOW BETTER.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Emergencys_over\"><\/span>Emergency\u2019s over\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is not an emergency anymore. Emergencies don\u2019t last two years. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> tells us we should be sweeping away the bureaucratic tangle of contradictory and confusing rules and regulations that strangle our society. Even Democrat Jared Polis, governor of Colorado, acknowledged this last week in a rare outbreak of nonpartisan common sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And yet, New York\u2019s leaders are doing the exact opposite, clamping down once again on the city that has borne the harshest brunt of the pandemic. Yes, de Blasio and Hochul have said no more lockdowns, but they will push it as far as their political polling figures will allow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, while some of that punishing brunt was a natural result of our density and lifestyles, much of it was self-inflicted by our government of self-important bureaucrats and power-hungry politicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcus-column.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576\" alt=\"A May 21, 2020 cover of The New York Post displays Marcus's column pleading for COVID to end. \" class=\"wp-image-20602798\" width=\"576\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcus-column.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 576w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/marcus-column.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\"\/><figcaption>A May 21, 2020 cover displays Marcus\u2019s column pleading for COVID to end. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/121721mandates12CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A general view of signs stating &quot;you need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter this business&quot; and &quot;all people must wear a mask to enter&quot; as seen on the doors of Broadway theaters in New York.\" class=\"wp-image-20602772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/121721mandates12CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/121721mandates12CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/121721mandates12CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/121721mandates12CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A sign requiring masks is displayed on the doors of Broadway theaters in New York.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The hard truth is that a sprawling bureaucracy has attempted to minutely control the lives of everyone, yet dropped the ball on properly protecting the minority most at risk. An army of officials tasked with drawing up myriad rules for justifying masking children could have spent time more constructively studying how to keep nursing-home patients free from infection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May 2020 I wrote that COVID \u201cneeds\u201d to end now, not that it should, but that it needed to. That was because if restrictive measures went on too long, they would start to metastasize, become a part of the system. That has happened. We have crossed that bridge. Who will have the courage to go back? Who will have the courage to call it first?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t end five hundred and eighty-one days ago. And today, there is reason to fear that it never will.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>David Marcus is the author of \u201cCharade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation.\u201d<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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