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In the EU we are implementing lockdowns and curfews with moderate results. When I suggest we should suspend all air travel except for freight and bring back bo
by DoingIsLearning 6y ago
In the EU we are implementing lockdowns and curfews with moderate results.
When I suggest we should suspend all air travel except for freight and bring back border checks in the EU during lockdown, all my friends react like it's pure heresy.
In hindsight historians will look back at this as our biggest failing. Allowing for travel in the name of economy whilst prolonging economic damage plus increasing disease/deaths.
Half measures are a short distance from no measures at all in terms of virus containment.
- isolli 6y agoOr it could be exactly the opposite. In this paper [0], Ioannidis (one of the most cited epidemiologists in the world) and his co-authors write: << In summary, we fail to find strong evidence supporting a role for more restrictive NPIs in the control of COVID in early 2020. We do not question the role of all public health interventions, or of coordinated communications about the epidemic, but we fail to find an additional benefit of stay-at-home orders and business closures. The data cannot fully exclude the possibility of some benefits. However, even if they exist, these benefits may not match the numerous harms of these aggressive measures. More targeted public health interventions that more effectively reduce transmissions may be important for future epidemic control without the harms of highly restrictive measures. >> [0] https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/stanford-study-lockdowns-have-no-significant-effect-in-reducing-covid-19-may-even-spread-it https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/stanford-study-lockdowns-h...