Denial can be silly or toxic - either way it amounts to an avoidable tragedy.

I was very ill with COVID March/April 2020, so I had good reason to study what was real and what was twaddle and what was propaganda.

It was abundantly clear by mid March that New Zealand, Vietnam, Australia's State Governments, Taiwan, Finland, Norway, China and all the other Governments and countries populations that chose the strategy of stopping the spread internally, eliminating community transmission within their jurisdictions, as well as quarantining borders to prevent importing the virus, (rather than trying to control a slow spread internally aka 'mitigation' and continuing more or less unrestricted international travel) were taking the optimal public health and economy supportive approach.

Events - actions taken and outcomes that followed - have proven that to be the case.  On every measure of health, economic performance, civil liberties those countries that opted to stop the transmission of the virus in their communities have done much, much better than those that allowed the virus to spread, thinking they could somehow control the virus and protect their economies.

Anyone who denies this very simple fact is being either silly or toxic.

Denial can be silly or toxic - either way it amounts to an avoidable tragedy.

Citizen denial is just silly.

Government denial is toxic. News Media Denial is toxic.

#CovidIsNotOver 

#JohnsonVariant

 #ZeroCovid

Kindest regards

Corneilius

"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."