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Ramesh Thakur rightly decries governments’ infatuation with “glamorous models.” A slice:

As is by now well known but studiously ignored by our politicians and most media, Florida has been pretty much open since May 2020 and Texas since March this year (florida đã mở lại từ tháng 5/2020, Texas từ tháng 3/2021). Neither has become the predicted death chamber (buồng tử thần) that ‘public health experts’ warned. The return of normality also means that their citizens are once again rebuilding natural immunity against life’s regular infections (nhiễm bệnh thông thường) compared to the steadily growing immunocompromised cohorts in the lockdown states. The Guardian reports that New Zealand is already paying the price of an ‘immunity debt’ with paediatric wards (buồng bệnh nhi) flooded by babies with a potentially deadly respiratory (liên quan tới hô hấp) virus. This is the same argument as the dry tinder (bùi nhùi) effect with bushfires. Because Covid lockdowns suppress the circulation of bacterial and viral infections, babies have failed to develop natural immunity to other viruses. As public health professor Michael Baker explains, ‘we’ve accumulated a whole lot of susceptible (dễ mắc; dễ bị ảnh hưởng; dễ bị tổn thương; nhạy cảm; dễ xúc cảm) children that have missed out on exposure – so now they’re seeing it for the first time’.

Thus the cult of safetyism through lockdowns increases our exposure to future epidemics.

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