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«Bad symptoms are the circuit breaker, they keep you in bed, they reduce circulation and spread. Duh!»

The Church of Covidology™ attempts to get around this by postulating an incubation period during which you don't feel anything yet but can already spread it. It's a dubious theory at best.

«People moving around will spread the virus, stop people moving. (Fast thought)»

The virus, although not even being alive in the commonly accepted sense of the word, is still subject to natural selection. People moving around spread lighter varieties of the virus, and people lying in their beds keep the heavier varieties to themselves. This selective pressure would make lighter varieties prevail... unless movement restrictions interfere.

tl;dr: restriction on movements made the whole thing longer than it would otherwise have been.

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I always remember Knut Wittkowski: you leave it alone, it'll go away, don't do anything weird or it'll get worse.

I didn't know then, in April 2020, that probably they knew they had to do something, or people would notice they were the prey.

The set-up was a masterpiece. Everything was done against the accumulated experience. Not one thing was done correctly. It was an artifical stampede. And probably, all other epidemics, even that of the Athens of Pericles, was probably a fabrication. They really lie about everything, and it is so difficult to understand that so many people can act together. I can't be true, right? But it is true.

Incredible and true.

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