In the early days when there wasn’t vaccines or other treatments tog COVID lockdowns we’re needed to flatten the curve to keep our health systems from getting overwhelmed. They were never sustainable and even in the PRC they aren’t sustainable. Reducing mortality is due to many factors and can be addressed in many ways. In my own recent experience I was in The Netherlands when they locked down and in Singapore which didn’t lock down but had other restrictions such as very thorough contact tracing, mask mandates and high vaccination. Singapore adjusted for population is better than the Netherlands but both are doing better than the US.
Looks like this is a working paper or has not yet been released for peer review. I don't see it published on any peer review site. Reading through it looks like they excluded multiple studies that show "lockdown" reduces covid mortality (for example, they excluded one that shows 3M live saved). They explain their reasoning for excluding this and other studies that showed reduction in mortality. It also seems like this is focused only on Europe and US. I quickly google these 3 authors and at least two of them have been anti-gov lockdown. It kind of screams BIAS. Here is one that is a systematic review and meta-analysis that have been released for peer review and I believe have been reviewed. Effectiveness of public health measures in reducing the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-068302
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What a great point they've made. This is why we have heard absolutely no criticism of Fauci. None. People simply aren't allowed to criticise him.
Which part of it? And if you're asking someone to do something, maybe don't make it sound like a demand. It's a little rude, I don't owe you **** you know bud On the the population having 95+% antibodies, it's a bit of an guess because I can't seem to find up to date stats on it for the US, we don't seem to be measuring it, at least to the point where it's made easily accessible to the public, but I'll tell you how I came up with that number This survey/study suggests we had 80% of the population in the US with antibodies by may Link That data is prior to both delta and omicron waves, you can imagine a much larger number of Americans have been infected with covid since. I wasn't making the claim for just the US though, I think it's safe to assume that most western countries (save NZ) have really high levels of combined vaccination/prior infections (thus, antibodies). The UK reports that 98% of their adult population have antibodies (also high in children) link Prior infection and vaccination have been shown to be very effective in preventing severe disease and death so far. link And then, I don't really have a study that comes to mind about half ass lockdowns being a solution to omicron, I'm sure somethings out there, but that's more was a personal judgment, but I mean, look at how transmissible this thing is, look at all the countries around the world with record-high cases and positivity rates. I think that was an attempt to answer where I was coming from, Deck, hope you are satisfied. Happy Monday morning btw.
You make too much common sense. But look, we know that the process can't just rely on the old common sense thing. We got to have a control group if data is worth anything. New Zealand and Australia went so hard and haven't let up much, there is not a control group. Elimination.
