Changed Lives

Look in the mirror
And see how you've been taken
You won't surrender
But now you're heart is breakin'
--John Waite

Heard on the radio this morning that it has been one year since COVID-19 'changed our lives.' For most people, it has not been the virus itself that has changed their lives. Even with our inflated measures, the data indicate that slightly more than 1% of the US population has tested positive for the virus--with perhaps 10-20% of the population actually contracting the virus without official detection or significant effect. The official US CV19 death count currently stands at about 0.15% of the population.

For most people, what has 'changed their lives' over the past year has been draconian government policy response to the virus. These policies have destroyed jobs, closed businesses, increased a raft of medical conditions ranging from mental illness to cancer onset, dumbed down education, and restricted people's rights to assemble and freely associate. Future financial burdens have increased thru monetary and fiscal policies pumping trillion$ in fiat currency and debt into system in the name of COVID relief.

It has not been the disease that has changed most people's lives, but rather a concocted, force-fed 'cure.'.