I know people who are still not seeking treatment for things because they are scared to death - literally. They are choosing to postpone diagnostic tests and elective procedures. When people do finally come in, their cases are more advanced and more difficult to treat. This is a tragedy and there are people responsible. May they burn in hell. Contact tracing is only a means for eventual mass surveillance and has nothing to do with preventing the spread of a virus. Testing should only be done if someone is symptomatic - that's it! A positive test is used along with other factors to make a clinical diagnosis of COVID. A positive test never proves infection. It is so much bull crap.  So, we shut down the entire economy for about 6,600 deaths and caused people, in some cases, irreparable harm. Most of those deaths occurred in nursing homes with people at high risk. A case could be made that if not for the incompetence of placing the virus in the midst of this population, we would only be looking at possibly a couple of thousand deaths due to COVID-19 complications - with obesity and smoking being the two biggest comorbidity factors associated with poor outcomes. So, here is another pillar of the con that is falling. The numbers about the lockdowns and continuing them are in.   Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health — first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy. The results are in. Counterintuitive though it may be, statistical analysis shows that locking down the economy didn’t contain the disease’s spread, and reopening it didn’t unleash a second wave of infections. ... there is no escaping the evidence that, at minimum, heavy lockdowns were no more effective than light ones, and that opening up a lot was no more harmful than opening up a little. So where is the science that would justify the heavy lockdowns many officials are still demanding? Numbers show lockdowns didn’t help contain COVID-19 — opening up didn’t boost it