The linked article/statistics is this: https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/ https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/ It might seem that the countries with no lockdown are

The linked article/statistics is this: https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/ https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/ It might seem that the countries with no lockdown are doing better than those with lockdown from the graph alone. However, that interpretation is very biased and I want to repeat a trope: correlation is not causation. It is hinted that no lockdown has fewer deaths than lockdown "If anything, these are are clustered at the lower end of death rates", but as it follows up "but the evidence is far from conclusive". It could be that countries with no lockdown have fewer deaths because there's no lockdown, but it could also mean absolutely anything. It could mean that those countries that are hit worst issue a lockdown (such as UK, that was trying to avoid the lockdown until it got very bad, then issued it), or that they are unrelated, or ...