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Where I live (Wales, UK), we had "local lockdowns" (where citizens were not allowed to leave they county they lived in) until late 2021. Even without that, there were still significant restrictions in place on our daily lives, like in many other places.

what are you still complaining about? you won, no one likes a sore winner.

"Won" means that we are all allowed out of our houses?

I'm complaining about the damage that has been done.

who doesn't have in circle of family or close friends somebody who passed away directly due to covid.

Maybe true, but in every case that I know of, it's some variation of "Mavis died of Covid in the end, but she'd been in poor health for years and it wasn't a surprise to anyone."

the inconvenience

Oh hell no. I did not live through an "inconvenience". I and my kids now inhabit a world that will deal with the societal and economic damage for many years.

And no, I'm not just going to let slide a historically unprecedented, in scope and scale, change in citizen/government dynamics, and for a disease where you couldn't even begin to question the official narrative without being branded an evil anti-vaxxer.

We absolutely need to analyse what was done, and sort the panicked, fear-driven polices from what was useful.

The name is the least of my problems (although I have always wondered where it came from). The whole thing reads like a D&D script.

Doesn't that cause people to go to work and school when they might not have otherwise?

Hence the absurd situation where you "need" to get vaccinated to be a good person, but you also need to keep testing, in case you leave the house while infected.

I'll quote OP again:

>COVID vaccines significantly reduce how many people who get exposed to COVID actually get sick.

The boosters are 26% effective at preventing infection.

Sure, they do something if you are particularly at risk of having a bad time with Covid, but that low effectiveness at preventing infection means there isn't much argument that they did much to slow the spread of Covid.

COVID vaccines significantly reduce how many people who get exposed to COVID actually get sick.

The linked article says that Covid boosters, at least, are 26% effective. Personally, I don't call that a significantly effective treatment.

the disease is far less effective spreading, either for not be able to infect as much people, or people not being severely impacted and being less contagious and for less time.

This idea doesn't mix well with Covid's very high rate of asymptomatic cases (which may be even higher among the vaccinated).

A saturated health system may not be available for you if you i.e. have an accident.

At least where I live (Wales, UK), asking citizens to avoid healthcare for several years to "Save the NHS" has resulted in an ongoing health crisis of unprecedented proportions.

Religious impulses get measured on a different metric than the dry, purely scientific and logical basis that Climate Change is supposedly formed from. If it really is a religious impulse, then we have to completely re-evaluate the constructiveness and worth of the idea (that is, if its acolytes will let us).

Interesting that many subreddits have removed downvoting, for a variety of reasons.

have value despite or sometimes because of that resemblance

What kinds of value? Personal reflection and growth? Community cohesiveness? The construction of inspirational and grandiose places of worship?

How would these be useful values to the cause of Climate Change?

It's probably the unstated implication that because the argument may share some similarities to religious principals it can be straightforwardly dismissed as having no value.

Nearly. It's that the root causes and values of such societal constructs and shared value sets might be quite different than we expect at face value.

Negative.

I love the religious overtones of this, especially as I was brought up devout Christian and have a good familiarity with the Old Testament prophets and the Book of Revelation.

Here, the author is warning us of the promised false prophets and deceivers, who do the work of the Enemy in its long and shadowy struggle with The Science. Only those who follow the True Path will enlighten humanity, navigate our pending Doom, and guide us into the prosperous Green Age.

You could take a further step down the conspiracy path, and argue that Climate Change is how the developing East has created dependence on their materials and manufacturing.

The real solution to this is a CO2 tax at the point of goods import.