The pandemic is being used by both parties to push their agenda.
Your pessimism is another persons optimistic outcome.
Your pessimism is another persons optimistic outcome.
We no longer live in a world with shared truths, and this is the most remarkable manifestation of this new reality.
Ok, I googled it and I still don't get it... are you talking about the cartoon?
Duranty got the prize for being one of a very small number of Western journalists allowed into Stalin's Soviet Union, and writing about a visit to Ukraine.
He made no mention of the mass famine ongoing at the time, the Holomodor. Wikipedia lists the death toll as "3 to 12 million", because it was a totalitarian state and real measurement was impossible.
So the answer to "is it possible for millions to die and it simply not be reported at the time" is "yes".
These are positive outcomes of lockdowns being lifted.
The danger in looking at this as a binary “opening kills people” is that you miss the trade offs and in doing so you miss the other nuanced policy options that sit in between complete lockdown and no lockdown.