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It did indeed have lockdowns! Public Health quarantines have a history that is thousands of years old. Polio would close public pools regularly when my parents were children.
Closing a pool and the 2020 insanity in some countries where you weren't even allowed to walk your dog without self-certifying your outing as legal under the pseudo-curfew are very different, which is more what I meant by lockdowns since that's what the contemporary meaning seems to be.
Florence has old as balls "wine holes", where they serve wine through specially designed holes to limit the risk of spreading diseases.
Governments fought diseases back then just as hard or even harder than now.
They were originally meant to avoid taxes on storefronts but later repurposed, do you have any evidence it was government policy?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine#Notable_quarantines
Quarantines in case of known infections are very different from shutting down arbitrary sectors of an economy because politicians said so, they don't even compare to lockdowns in scope.
Did you even read some of the quarantines? There are several instances of them quarantining entire countries, no boats in or out. There's instances of towns being isolated, etc.
Lastly, your first sentence is absolutely baffling. We KNEW COVID was everywhere, wtf are you even talking about? At its height, the US alone was having around 200,000+ confirmed cases a day. You are vastly underplaying how close our medical system came to collapsing in huge swathes of the country. There's absolutely a reason why there's a global shortage of doctors and nurses right now, the burnout during the pandemic was absolutely unreal for medical workers.
The kneejerk complete shutdown at the beginning was a tad overkill in some places, but that was because of so many unknown variables. The initial strains were absolutely more deadly, so why risk it? However, I don't remember anywhere in the US going to extremes of making it so you couldn't even walk outside. Now, places like China absolutely went way overkill with literally forcibly boarding people into buildings.
I don't live in the US. France and Italy had policies closer to Chinese ones, but not as stringent, you had fines in some places if you were unlucky, on paper though you weren't supposed to be outside much if at all.
Everyone knew COVID was everywhere and yet from one week to the next the French government changed its tune completely, and conflicting information, empty promises and moving goalposts were the norm 2020-2022.
I never stopped working because I had an “essential” job. At first we weren't provided masks then a few weeks later we would get punished if we didn't wear them, we were told to keep a distance working manual jobs in teams, and there were zero scientific references for most decisions being taken. It was a giant circus.
Or maybe, just maybe, more information on COVID was being gained day by day, and they were adjusting to meet that changing data. There was plenty of scientific data backing up the changes.
Plus, y’know, they had to balance the effects of a deadly disease with the need for those essential jobs.
Good grief, get over yourself.
yeah god forbid you stop the spread of a pandemic that's killed over 7 MILLION people.
boo fuckin hoo
Because going out on the street was going to make the spread of a respiratory virus much worse than being forced to stay home most of the time? Places with stricter policies didn't have better adherence to the rules anyway, Swedish people were never forced to stay home and more did than in Italy or France.
aw poor baby.