Re <<... why was public policy knowingly advanced that fostered that error in people's expectations they would provide immunity ? >>
Is it possible, as in conceivable, and deliberately decided by 'them' that the virus be allowed to burn-through the population, as it would be in the case of the good old days when people simply died, in order to not strangle the economy, so that empires and kingdoms and nation-states can remain standing?
iow, 'they' have decided or had decided for 'them' to sacrifice some people, numbers unknowable, in order to stave off revolution due to new lockdown, effects more than well known.
For example, take the case of UK (67M) and S Korea (52M), with comparable orders of magnitude total population sizes ...
UK, at high vaxx rate, having pushed vaccination since lockdown #1, seems to be allowing Covid infection and death to go unchained, oblivious to the on-going Covid wave, and
S Korea, at low vaxx rate, having not pushed vaccination and celebrated too early since lockdown #1, and let down vigilance, seems to be losing control of Covid infection and death, and in any case not prepared for the ongoing Covid wave
Observation, that should the UK and S Korea have to lockdown again (which they likely would not because they cannot afford to or lockdowns shall not be necessary - am agnostic on this lockdown necessity issue), TeoTwawKi beckons and darkest interregnum winks.
Makes one wonder what would have happened had there been no lockdowns last year. India and Brazil give us a clue as far as fatality is concerned, but did those two places avoid the worst of economic damage? Dunno, hard to say.
I am guessing, that at the fork of the road, heading either for lockdown or opting for burn-through, the authorities must do resolute decision of one or another fork, but not waffle by Forst going one way and then bum-rushed another way.
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