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‘The harm done by lockdown will last for decades’
- sharemywin 5y agoThe premise in healthcare of do no harm is for patients not groups of people. Do no harm, so don't lock up murders because that would harm them? Second, the more it spreads the more it has a chance to mutate. In the beginning of the article it said lockdowns were based on opinions and to use fact based logic then proceeded to present a bunch of opinions.
- theandrewbailey 5y ago> Do no harm, so don't lock up murders because that would harm them? We lock up murderers because they deliberately made a choice intending to kill someone else. > Second, the more it spreads the more it has a chance to mutate. The virus spread even during lockdowns (slower, but spread nonetheless). Given enough time, mutations will occur, lockdown or otherwise.
- bigbillheck 5y agoThe article says > ‘Flattening the curve’ just slows down the transmission rate of the virus. It does not affect the overall attack rate. That means we have just prolonged the pandemic. but that was the whole point, and I thought it was obvious to anybody who was paying attention. There's only so much medical capacity at any one time, and unless you're going to, say, build a hospital in ten days, you have to choose between 'get overwhelmed' or 'delay'.