So, I watched the first video - the rest looked like the "fake news, horror(!)" stuff that didn't exist in the mainstream (i.e non-conspiracy circles) until Donald Trump got voted in and are about things I don't see, so I ignored them.
My thoughts on the first video, as I had them:
(Daily Mail article) Was the lockdown a waste of time or the wrong thing to do? My thoughts: if we do our job well, that's preventing the spread of the disease, then isn't that the question that would be asked because the extreme results didn't materialise?
Dude provides no evidence for the 66% of people getting sick being at home or, as importantly, the circumstances surrounding them (yes, they are at home when it's confirmed, but can anybody confirm that they were at home when they were infected?) - my opinions from my above post stand on this. I'll happily change them if there's evidence from a reputable source that says that these people (whatever the percentage) got infected whilst at home and not in contact with anybody from the outside world.
Emergency hospitals: prepare for the worst, hope for the best. I'm sure in the US this would be "pray" for the best but neither praying nor hoping actually do anything. Countries prepared for the worst case scenario with field hospitals and put measures in place to try and prevent that occuring...but, because those stay at home measures worked theres an issue with the field hospitals existing, or being too large? - this guy doesn't even agree with himself, saying that the field hospitals cost too much money and were an overreaction but that it's good that they were built and weren't used?? Either they shouldn't be there or they should be there (at which point the cost is irrelevant).
The first video seems to be based around this guys opinion backed up by two images of "stories from the UK" in the Daily Mail, which (as with every tabloid) uses hyperbole and confirmation bias to sell itself. It's sole purpose is to make money. For a website that money comes from subscriptions or advertisments which pay out based on hits... (what was it Eric Bischoff said?)
He seems to base a chunk of his opinion around a (not shown) study in the UK? I live in the UK and, in my area at least can confirm that social distancing is only partially happening - there were street parties last night for VE day for example and people are just stopping on the street to talk to each other well within touching distance. I'd estimate around a quarter of the houses on my row are having visitors each and every day, possibly more. Yes that's a small sample size, but it's what I can see with my own eyes.
For the first three years of his (Trumps) presidency the economy was the best America has seen, the guy then flat out says that this makes Trump the best guy to fix the economy once this is over. Which then implys that everything Obama put into place stopped IMMEDIATELY when Trump was voted in? Politics in the US works that quickly? It sure doesn't over here.
NPR appears to be funded by the government? As a consipiracy theory you know better than to use this as evidence, right? - seven minutes or so of this video are dedicated to this guy reading stats from this site, mainly figures about field hospital usage, which I've already discussed above.
I'm still curious where this guys "science" is coming from - because he didn't actually quote or read any published, peer reviewed papers... he just looked at some websites that are extrememly suspect (and in the case of the Daily Mail, definitly biased), read them out and said "stands to reason" a lot.
On the first ammendment - to quote: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Does this over-ride the need to prevent a global pandemic (with a death rate of approximately 7% of those infected) spreading?
Like I say, my thoughts on the video as I had them - none of this changed my mind because there's no reputable evidence here.
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