Back to lockdown in Europe; is that our fate, too?

I keep following Scott Atlas, and I keep being impressed.

He's the anti-Fauci in the White House. He doesn't quite put it that way, but we all know that's who he is.

I just watched another interview with him, where he answered a lot of the same questions he's covered in the past -- with regard to the damage done by lockdowns, the importance of reopening society, and the strategy of taking special care to keep the elderly safe.

But he said a couple of things I hadn't heard him say before, which I thought were worth sharing with you.

First, in terms of what life is all about (spoiler: it's more than just the avoidance of death):

I have a 93-year-old mother in law, and she said to me two months ago, “I’m not interested in being confined in my home. I am not interested in living if that’s the life…. I’m old enough to take a risk; I understand social distancing. I’m going to function, otherwise there’s no reason to live.” This sort of bizarre, maybe well-intentioned but misguided idea that we are going to eliminate all risk from life, we are going to stop people from taking any risk that they are well aware of, we’re going to close down businesses, we’re going to stop schools — these are inappropriate and destructive policies.

There are between 30,000 and 90,000 people a year that die — that are high-risk elderly — in the United States every flu season. We don’t shut down schools in response to that.

Then, in answer to: is he angry?

His response:

I am angry at the people who were wrong and who insist on prolonging these policies that are killing people, particularly people who are not in their socioeconomic class. It’s no problem for a person who has a high-level job in government, or an academic job, to sit there and pontificate when the average guy is being destroyed. That I am angry about and I think history will record these people very harshly — it is an epic failure of massive proportion that they have abandoned regular people here with their own hubris and political agenda. In that sense, yeah, I’m angry.

And then:

All of these harms are massive for the working class and the lower socioeconomic groups. The people who are upper class, who can work from home, the people who can sip their latte and complain that their children are underfoot or that they have to come up with extra money to hire a tutor privately -- these are people who are not impacted by the lockdowns.

I'm telling you, we need this guy.

We need him so we won't be -- for example -- Ireland, which has just returned to a severe lockdown because of a rise in "cases," even though, as the BBC explains, "Hospitalizations have been rising, but they're not at the level seen earlier in the year and again while deaths are slowly rising, they're nowhere near what they were at the peak."

And yet despite that, for at least the next six weeks the following restrictions are being imposed:

• People are allowed to venture only 5km from their houses
• People may meet, outdoors, with one other household
• No social or family gatherings are allowed in homes
• Many "non-essential" businesses will have to close
• Bars and restaurants have to close their dining rooms
• Only 25 guests can attend weddings (this rule holds until the end of the year)
• Funerals may have only 10 mourners

In the U.S., the lockdowners are pretending they're not for full lockdowns anymore. But repeat lockdowns are happening in Europe -- in the Czech Republic, people are limited to groups of two -- and even in some parts of the U.S.

Lockdowns accomplished nothing at all apart from killing people from other causes, sucking the joy from life, and simply delaying when people get COVID, so of course our overlords intend to push them even harder.

This is why I'm a fan of Scott Atlas. He represents the world's biggest middle finger to all of this anti-life b.s.

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