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People have traveled and moved extensively to Florida as well as TX from NY and CA, so any high-spread virus would spread to Florida and CA then spread within t
by asabjorn 5y ago
People have traveled and moved extensively to Florida as well as TX from NY and CA, so any high-spread virus would spread to Florida and CA then spread within them.
If masks and other strict lockdown measures were effective then by now open states such as Florida and NYC would see much higher death as well as covid case rates. See other comment I made in parent thread showing its about the same.
- chimprich 5y agoStrict lockdowns are effective. It's a virus that spreads through social contact. You restrict social contact, you reduce spread of the virus. It's not plausible to claim they're not effective. This feels like an argument from 12 months ago. They've demonstrably worked in Italy, the UK, New Zealand, China, and so on. They were the primary tool to constrain virus spread until vaccines came along.
- asabjorn 5y agoWhat metric shows strict lockdowns are effective? As I've shown outcomes on covid cases are equivalent in populous strict lockdown states (NY, CA) and open states (Florida, Texas). Death rate to confirmed covid cases is about 1.6% for all of these except NY that has 2.6%, controlling somewhat for differences in testing.