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Unpopular opinion, but I don't understand why people still tolerate these drastic and destructive measures when we can see all over the world that they have min
by lazyjones 6y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I don't understand why people still tolerate these drastic and destructive measures when we can see all over the world that they have minimal effect on seasonal virus infections. Have we abandoned all common sense in sheer panic?
Just an example:
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-20..latest&country=DEU~AUT~USA~ROU®ion=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&hideControls=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
Romania has had much more liberal policies than Austria for months, yet it is doing better (by a small constant factor it seems). The seasonal effect is clearly visible.
We will be suffering the consequences of these wrong policies for years as countries, and in particular also Europe as a whole, losing ground internationally.