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Strict 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 plausibl
by chimprich 5y ago
Strict 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.