The legacy media presented COVID-19 as the cruelest of all killers, but two years later we may begin to look back and see that …
The legacy media presented COVID-19 as the cruelest of all killers, but two years later we may begin to look back and see that government lockdowns and other measures designed to fight the novel coronavirus caused untold damage. Some people, no longer content to suffer in silence, have shared their stories of the pain, grief, and even additional deaths triggered by government anti-COVID policies. While the world will never know the full extent of the harms inflicted by overly restrictive government diktats, we can begin to appreciate some of the most painful vignettes people have shared about their life under lockdown — and vow they will never happen again. Families denied the chance to visit dying loved ones or attend their funerals Public health orders separated even the closest loved ones, including in their final days — depriving family members of the chance to kiss their parents, hold their hand, or whisper one last “I love you” at their death bed. The Washington Post reports one such instance: Heather, waging her own battle with covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, said goodbye to her younger sister on a live stream, tears running down her face as she watched doctors unplug the machine that had helped her sister breathe. Heidi, in a hospital room just down the road, was suddenly gone. Heather longed to rush to her, to hug her and touch her one last time, but she couldn’t. The feed went dark, and she sat with her head in her hands, crying. The pain deepens when mourners found themselves unable to say goodbye to their loved ones during their funeral services. “You should be there at the end, and I wasn’t. I felt ashamed in case other people were judging me. This is what was in my head – guilt and shame,” said Michael Cooper, who was unable to attend his 87-year-old mother’s funeral in person, thanks to the UK’s COVID-19 restrictions. “The ceremony was impeccable, except there was no one there who should have been there. I felt my mother was alone.” The government-enforced harvest of loneliness overlooked no socioeconomic class. Juren Klopp, who manages the Premier League’s Liverpool soccer (“football”) franchise, could not attend his 81-year-old mother’s funeral last February, because Germany had restricted travel from the UK over the coronavirus. “She meant everything to me,” the grief-stricken star told a German newspaper. “As a devout Christian, I know she’s now in a better place. The fact that I can’t be there at the funeral is because of these awful times.” Even Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family had to postpone part of its funeral ceremonies for Prince Philip, who died last April at age 99, for nearly a year, because the government forbade churches from singing hymns (when it deigned to let the churches to open at all).
