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Data is useless without theory, and theoreticians like Paul Krugman have long argued that lockdowns are better for the economy. A recent science paper also show
by calf 6y ago
Data is useless without theory, and theoreticians like Paul Krugman have long argued that lockdowns are better for the economy. A recent science paper also showed that countries that utilized lockdowns showed stronger economic recovery. Cite the science, not the NYC hospitality alliance rent report. These other sources do not argue that the point of lockdowns was to help hospitals, but rather to help the economy itself.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoRe: Krugman, it's hard to see him as anything other than a monomaniacal partisan. He says some pretty ridiculous things with increasing regularity.
- calf 6y agoSo what? Krugman is also a Nobelist, if you're merely content with regurgitating decades-old ad hominem promulgated by conservative economists who are in denial about their own partisanship. It is factually true that Krugman early on advocated for lockdowns using an economic argument. Either that's useful to know and look into, or not. But the level of your response to this fact was purely vacuous anti-intellectualism, a kind of partisanship of its own.