I love how you pivot from "demanding peer review" and a "high bar for science" to unleashing a great pile of anecdata about overreaction. Much of the science on

I love how you pivot from "demanding peer review" and a "high bar for science" to unleashing a great pile of anecdata about overreaction. Much of the science on depression and social ill effects of lockdowns is no more conclusive, but you're already 100% convinced of it, even making up numbers for average weight gain. I find it bizarre that all the stuff about depression, unemployment, etc is always neatly pigeonholed into "lockdown did it". Yeah, like if we were all just going about our business having Brazil-levels of disease and death , we'd all be really cheerful and gainfully employed. Anti-lockdown people somehow interpret the world entirely through this narrow lens - perhaps some people are depressed/suicidal thanks to dread of the disease or personal losses of friends/family members to the disease. There's an amazing rush to judgement to assume that all the risks are due to lockdown, especially in countries that have high rates - as yet I don't think we know what suicide and unemployment rates are for people with Long COVID. It's something of a right-wing bit of unpleasantry to say this, but "facts don't care about your feelings" (ugh). If there is a looming risk of - say - 2% of long COVID suffers getting Lewy Body Dementia or Parkinson's as a result of "mild COVID", that's a lot of new horrible cases - potentially with years of suffering involved. If these ill effects are in fact looming, they will ensure that 'bad lockdown' stuff is lost in the noise. I'm not advocating 'lock everyone down hard forever'; I just think this is a counterpoint to the whole "freedom day" nonsense where it's assumed that once we have a goodly portion of people vaccinated we can just let the virus rage through the population unchecked.