what if?

​Dr. Gary North writes about the three phases of the Spanish Flu: the spring, fall and winter of 1918.  The autumn phase was the deadliest.  "What if,” North posits, “COVID-19 were to follow the pattern of the Spanish flu? The epidemiologists don't know if it will. We hear an occasional reference to the possibility, but nobody is focusing on it. Everybody is focusing on today. What if the killer phase began next September? What if it began as schools opened? What if it began as the presidential campaign was escalating?”
 
Answer: If a genocidal phase of the pandemic began in September, the quarantine issue would be even more politicized than it is today, with even louder calls for lockdowns, whether they were medically expedient or not.  Lockdowns have not been shown to stop death rates.  But lockdowns have served to crash the 2019 Trump economy. The president’s opponents believe the death of the economy will ensure a political victory for the Democratic party and its agenda.  Bill Maher actually voiced this sentiment on 8 June, 2018, when he stated, “…I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.”