In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)
I think the lockdown concept as implemented in 2020 was a great illustration of the problem of scale. It&#x27;s trivially true that if you as an individual avoid all contact with others during a flu season, you won&#x27;t catch the flu. You can probably extend that to your family, maybe a bit further, but at a certain scale it just becomes impossible (and undesirable) because of individual variations in occupation, lifestyle, risk and infinitely many other factors. And because someone has keep the wheels of society turning. There was no lockdown for supermarket cashiers.<p>My own government got very excited by the prospect of dictatorial central planning that lockdown mania created an enabling environment for and immediately set about writing all kinds of complicated rules about what food and clothing people were allowed to buy, as well as putting a prohibition on alcohol &amp; cigarettes and imposing a curfew. Pandemic response immediately became a vehicle for imposing by fiat whatever pet policies ministers could vaguely link to it. Years later, they&#x27;ve all been rolled back, but the damage was done, and everyone still caught Covid.[1]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groundup.org.za&#x2F;article&#x2F;nearly-everyone-in-south-africa-has-covid-antibodies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groundup.org.za&#x2F;article&#x2F;nearly-everyone-in-south...</a>