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I'm not sure I understand. New Zealand did lockdowns for a month or two and became completely Covid free. China did lockdowns for a month or two and became al

I'm not sure I understand. New Zealand did lockdowns for a month or two and became completely Covid free. China did lockdowns for a month or two and became almost Covid free. Most European countries did lockdowns for a month or two and were quite open over the summer. So either it was a different prophecy in the rest of the world or the prophecy was correct after all.

paganel 6y ago
Other 100+ countries did the lockdown as well and didn’t have the same results as NZ, science would thus tell us that what happened in NZ was the exception/statistical anomaly.
- Pyramus 6y ago
  Okay, so you are saying that lockdowns do work, albeit in exceptional cases. Then how did the lockdowns work in say New Zealand or Australia, or Singapore, or China? What is the mechanism of action?
  - cimi_ 6y ago
    Through severe restrictions on travel, people coming in the country and invasion of privacy. I know Australian people in Europe who haven't been able to visit home in a year. I know second-hand that in China if you had multi-stop flights you needed to quarantine at every stop. I don't know what test and trace measures the AU and NZ governments decided on, but I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't like them if I knew. And it's easy to say 'well, good, people shouldn't travel now' - but this is not just about holiday. These restrictions keep families apart, make it more difficult for people to care for each other. Imagine someone close to you is in distress and you can't go help them because of this, how would you feel? I don't know about you, but I would not want to live in China, even it gets to zero covid. And I wouldn't particularly like being isolated in AU or NZ either.
    - Pyramus 6y ago
      Completely agree, would not want to live in China either. My comment was a response to parent, who feels betrayed by science, because lockdowns were supposed to work. What I will say though is that there is no win scenario. It's lose-lose, either way. A non-Covid world does not exist anymore. Lockdowns come with exactly the downsides you describe. No lockdowns come with an overload of the health care system and high death tolls. Light lockdowns are a combination of both. Both proponents and opponents share the same motivations by the way - to be able to see relatives, meet other people etc.
      - collyw 6y ago
        > Lockdowns come with exactly the downsides you describe. No lockdowns come with an overload of the health care system and high death tolls. Please stop pushing the unproven narrative that lockdowns stop the healthcare system being overloaded. It's morally wrong to push for such a destructive policy without good supporting evidence. Sweden, Japan, Uraguay, South Korea. No lockdown. No problem for any of those healthcare systems. It can be easily shown that curves were flattening before lockdown had a chance to take effect. This is about as close as we will get to a controlled trail on lockdowns. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248936v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248936v...
        Pyramus 6y ago
        You are absolutely right, lockdowns are just a proxy, the real factor is behaviour. If everybody behaves lockdown-like, lockdown can be avoided. You don't need lockdowns to stop the healthcare system from being overloaded, if everybody wears masks, socially distances, agrees to track, trace and isolate programmes, there is mass testing, no incentives for people to come to work sick, etc. One year on we have a pretty good estimate how each behaviour/measure influences the reproduction rate of Covid-19. > Please stop pushing the unproven narrative that lockdowns stop the healthcare system being overloaded. I don't understand what exactly is unproven. Lockdowns correlate with behaviour. The Chinese healthcare system was completely overwhelmed, even with CCP spin on things. In Bergamo, Italy, the dead were carried away in army trucks. Look at fatality rates for both countries at the time.
collyw 6y ago
>completely Covid free. not any more https://time.com/5939502/new-zealand-covid-19-lockdown/ https://time.com/5939502/new-zealand-covid-19-lockdown/
- Pyramus 6y ago
  It's 3 cases and they are already implementing a city-wide lockdown.

paganel 6y ago

Other 100+ countries did the lockdown as well and didn’t have the same results as NZ, science would thus tell us that what happened in NZ was the exception/statistical anomaly.

Pyramus 6y ago
Okay, so you are saying that lockdowns do work, albeit in exceptional cases. Then how did the lockdowns work in say New Zealand or Australia, or Singapore, or China? What is the mechanism of action?
- cimi_ 6y ago
  Through severe restrictions on travel, people coming in the country and invasion of privacy. I know Australian people in Europe who haven't been able to visit home in a year. I know second-hand that in China if you had multi-stop flights you needed to quarantine at every stop. I don't know what test and trace measures the AU and NZ governments decided on, but I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't like them if I knew. And it's easy to say 'well, good, people shouldn't travel now' - but this is not just about holiday. These restrictions keep families apart, make it more difficult for people to care for each other. Imagine someone close to you is in distress and you can't go help them because of this, how would you feel? I don't know about you, but I would not want to live in China, even it gets to zero covid. And I wouldn't particularly like being isolated in AU or NZ either.
  - Pyramus 6y ago
    Completely agree, would not want to live in China either. My comment was a response to parent, who feels betrayed by science, because lockdowns were supposed to work. What I will say though is that there is no win scenario. It's lose-lose, either way. A non-Covid world does not exist anymore. Lockdowns come with exactly the downsides you describe. No lockdowns come with an overload of the health care system and high death tolls. Light lockdowns are a combination of both. Both proponents and opponents share the same motivations by the way - to be able to see relatives, meet other people etc.
    - collyw 6y ago
      > Lockdowns come with exactly the downsides you describe. No lockdowns come with an overload of the health care system and high death tolls. Please stop pushing the unproven narrative that lockdowns stop the healthcare system being overloaded. It's morally wrong to push for such a destructive policy without good supporting evidence. Sweden, Japan, Uraguay, South Korea. No lockdown. No problem for any of those healthcare systems. It can be easily shown that curves were flattening before lockdown had a chance to take effect. This is about as close as we will get to a controlled trail on lockdowns. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248936v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248936v...
      - Pyramus 6y ago
        You are absolutely right, lockdowns are just a proxy, the real factor is behaviour. If everybody behaves lockdown-like, lockdown can be avoided. You don't need lockdowns to stop the healthcare system from being overloaded, if everybody wears masks, socially distances, agrees to track, trace and isolate programmes, there is mass testing, no incentives for people to come to work sick, etc. One year on we have a pretty good estimate how each behaviour/measure influences the reproduction rate of Covid-19. > Please stop pushing the unproven narrative that lockdowns stop the healthcare system being overloaded. I don't understand what exactly is unproven. Lockdowns correlate with behaviour. The Chinese healthcare system was completely overwhelmed, even with CCP spin on things. In Bergamo, Italy, the dead were carried away in army trucks. Look at fatality rates for both countries at the time.

collyw 6y ago

>completely Covid free. not any more https://time.com/5939502/new-zealand-covid-19-lockdown/ https://time.com/5939502/new-zealand-covid-19-lockdown/

Pyramus 6y ago
It's 3 cases and they are already implementing a city-wide lockdown.