THE 2020 CORONAVIRUS SOCIETY WRECKER AWARDS GO TO...

Some publications nominated Anthony Fauci 2020’s Person of the Year. That double-talking, narrowly focused publicity hound might more properly be deemed 2020’s Most Destructive American.

Yet, at year’s end, we need more trophies than — we were frantically, mistakenly told — we needed ventilators. The following persons or groups also deserve much discredit for enabling the overreactive lockdowns’ vast destruction.

First, multiple lockdown governors collectively put 45 million people out of work and buried thousands of businesses, even though — as we should have known in March from general biology and from Italy’s and Spain’s Coronavirus experiences — only the old, obese and immunocompromised were at risk; by nature, most people are survivors. The states that locked down the hardest have the highest death rates. Governors are especially scornworthy because lockdowns were not science-based but, rather, were the central strategy in a thinly veiled oust-Trump operation. The post-election lockdowns are obvious attempts to make it look like pre-election lockdowns weren’t about the election.

With the same covert political motivation, and in order to lessen their 180 day workload, teachers have — against the weight of strong evidence from Europe, where schools remained open — decried the risks of returning kids to classrooms. In so doing, teachers have deeply damaged the lives of students, whom teachers profess to care about so deeply.

College students have declined to educate themselves about the low risks that opening colleges entailed. They have passively abdicated their traditional role of protesting irresponsible government action.

Congress has printed trillions of subsidy dollars that have, inter alia, enabled hospitals to falsely attribute deaths of those infected with Coronavirus to deaths from Covid-19, discouraged able people from working, and preordained deeply destructive, long-term inflation.

Trump performed poorly by giving Fauci an audience, declaring an open-ended emergency, and messaging in his usual undisciplined, unrealistic manner: calling Coronavirus “The Plague,” dismissing herd immunity, rambling about disinfectants, etc.

More than anyone, the media deserves contempt for suppressing data clearly revealing that the virus threatened only a small, isolable segment of the society. If it weren’t for constantly sensationalized news accounts and subsidy-driven statistical distortions, one would not have known there was a “pandemic.” Most people know zero healthy people who died, or even suffered, from a Corona infection.

The American People deserve dishonorable mention for uncritically and fearfully believing the media and ignoring data showing that healthy people under 65 were not at risk, as well as for disregarding the lockdowns’ harm to hundreds of millions of neighbors. When you have guaranteed income, self-focus is easy.

It was never sensible nor fair to shut down society to enable fundamentally old, sick people to endure a few more weeks or months. Most who express anguish over the topline 330K death toll never previously cared enough to visit lonely seniors. Even if one were to accept the grossly exaggerated death tolls, one in 1000 Americans have died with — not from — Coronavirus infections. Anyone placed in a large theater with a representative sample of 1000 Americans for twelve months— viral antibodies have been found in West Coast blood samples from December, 2019 — would reasonably expect the single oldest, sickest, most overweight person to die. Despite Coronavirus, America has net-added over one million people in 2020.

Closing most places of human interaction and mandating ineffective masks have killed social life. This has caused mass scale depression and deaths of young people, via overdoses, suicides and homicides. Moreover, under-30s will struggle to launch careers and build families in the faltering Covid economy.

Historically, the United States has sent millions under 25 to be killed or maimed in a series of wars, ostensibly to allow many other citizens to live freely. If we’ve previously invoked the collective interest to justify such extreme sacrifice from those who still had many vital years ahead of them, wouldn’t the substantial current costs that the lockdowns impose on the young outweigh the ostensible benefit of attempting to slightly extend the lives of that smaller fraction of people who have already had a fair chance at life?