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by FormulatedEdits 1057 days ago
Sorry, but that’s not the narrative that was all over the news at all. If that’s what the powers that be were thinking they didn’t tell us so!
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They most certainly did.

The main point that was pushed, however, was that health infrastructure simply could not handle Covid, and that without suppressing its transmission, many more would have died.

Guess you were watching some right wing garbage. This was always talked about.
The BBC isn’t typically considered right-wing garbage, except perhaps to consumers of extremely left-wing garbage. I promise you that while it may have been talked about, it was never the main or even a major part of the story*. The comment I’m replying to (yours I guess from the attempted burn) implies heavily that it was the agreed-upon and media-promoted main strategy, which is an obvious falsehood, hence the downvotes that comment received. Maybe you think this site is all right-wing too? (Not untrue tbh, depends on the issue at hand.)

*in my memory, which is fallible to be fair