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Other countries used lockdowns to slow down the spread of covid. But since covid is very contagious, it will eventually infect most of the population, and vuln
by alejohausner 6y ago
Other countries used lockdowns to slow down the spread of covid. But since covid is very contagious, it will eventually infect most of the population, and vulnerable people will eventually die from it.
That's one takeaway: lockdowns only delay the inevitable. Sweden just ripped the bandage off fast, and got all the deaths over with quickly.
As a consequence, there is the other big takeaway, the elephant in the room: covid doesn't kill more people than any other respiratory pathogen.
- yoz-y 6y agoAren't lockdown mainly a measure to manage hospital capacity? > covid doesn't kill more people than any other respiratory pathogen How come then that there were so many deaths in Italy once their healthcare system toppled over? From what I understand that even if Covid is not more deadly than say the flu, the fact that it spreads without symptoms means that in the end vastly more people get infected.