More evidence that they were useless.
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Public ignorance about the virus is nothing short of stunning.
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More evidence that they were useless.
[Update a few minutes later]
Public ignorance about the virus is nothing short of stunning.
Comments are closed.
That guy lost me at “Sweden did not close its schools.” This is false, and easily Googleable.
“Schools for upper secondary education (over-16s) and universities have been recommended to close and switch to distance learning, but closing schools for younger children has not been considered a necessary measure in Sweden.”
https://www.thelocal.se/20200511/how-swedens-schools-have-adapted-to-the-coronavirus
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-rare-opportunity-study-coronavirus-schools
If the optimists are correct that Sweden frontloaded its deaths and is almost clear, we will know by the end of winter.
Probably the biggest evidence is that places that shutdown for longer compared to say Texas and Florida, are now starting to open back up and spiking. It’s almost like you can only postpone the inevitable rather than avoid it.
Remember, the lockdowns were supposed to ‘flatten the curve’ so we wouldn’t overload the hospitals.
In many places the ‘curve’ had already been ‘flattened’ and lockdowns just slowed herd immunity. This is why The Narrative has changed from Muh Deaths to Muh Long-Term Problems. There aren’t enough vulnerable people left in most places for the disease to have many to kill.
When looking at the graph I think that subways need to be taken into account especially for New York and especially at the beginning before the authorities understood how much COVID was already existing in the population.
If Connecticut was its own country, it would have more deaths per million people than any other country in the world. So do you mean subway restaurants?
I agree that the lockdowns would only have delayed infections rather than preventing them, with one caveat. Delaying obviously does prevent some deaths, since doctors are better at fighting the disease now than they were months ago. Does that mean the lockdowns were worth it? Well, no, but the link was hyperbolic in ignoring that time has brought knowledge. We are, as always, adapting on many levels constantly.