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It is also silly to believe the issue is simply unwillingness of the government to pay people to stay home Do you honestly believe that everyone can just stay
by syshum 6y ago
It is also silly to believe the issue is simply unwillingness of the government to pay people to stay home
Do you honestly believe that everyone can just stay home until we have wide scale vaccine? Who will make the vaccine, who will keep the water flowing, the power, the food, everything else we need for daily life
Lockdown has never, and will never be a reasonable strategy for a pandemic, this one or future ones
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoYou don't need a lockdown forever, just to reduce transmission enough that contact tracing can be effective. This worked in Europe for a few months, although all the tourism over the summer probably seeded the current outbreaks.
- syshum 6y agoThere is a huge part of the population that is advocating for a total lockdown until wide scale vaccine distibution is complete and "worked" in EU is an oversimplification of what has happened with out taking into account 100's of other variables You can not simply do a base comparison of cases and say "nation X locked down, and Nation Y did not and that is why they have different outcomes" there is no factual basis for that statement
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoCan you point me to some evidence for this huge portion of the population wanting lockdown until vaccines are distributed? Should be pretty easy, given that so many people believe it. Well, it didn't work forever, but one can clearly see that most countries of the EU locked down in March/April, which reduced cases massively. They then held cases at a low level until September/October. This is much better performance than the US, where on a country basis, the numbers basically never went down, and are now increasing massively from a much higher base. Sure, it's not causality but it's suggestive evidence.