"We're Protecting our Seniors to Death!"

What "focused protection" can involve in practice: Examples from June 2020 and February 2023

I came across a compelling comment on a June 2020 article that reminded me about the awful things that were (are?) done in the name of “protecting” people from respiratory illness.

The article itself is about the impact of COVID-19 in nursing homes and (as we’d expect) is very “pro government narrative”. It presumes a novel virus was spreading and blame…