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Lockdowns are the only solution for stopping the spread of an infectious virus or bacteria. How you implement the lockdown and how long for depends on the infec
by rswail 6y ago
Lockdowns are the only solution for stopping the spread of an infectious virus or bacteria. How you implement the lockdown and how long for depends on the infection rates and treatment requirements.
If everyone masked/maintained hygiene/social distanced, then lockdowns can be lessened, but the best way to stop infections is to stop providing the environment were infections can occur.
Unless there are both effective and scalable treatment options, then some form of isolation is the only alternative.
- matz1 6y agoNo, lockdown create damage way more than the virus itself.
- mamon 6y agoLockdowns simply don't work. How do I know? Because Sweden, which for a long time refused to introduce any COVID restrictions at all, has less deaths per 1M people (1317) than France (1425), which introduced full lockdown. Also, Texas recently lifted all the restrictions couple weeks ago, and number of cases and deaths is still falling. I'm sure there are more examples like that.
- Jyaif 6y agoAccording to your data, lockdown even increases the number of deaths! The truth is that while this data is interesting, it's not enough to tell us how effective lockdowns are.