> If there was no lockdown, this opportunity would not have occurred. There was a clear conflict of interest. Your cited example is from before the WHO even de

> If there was no lockdown, this opportunity would not have occurred. There was a clear conflict of interest. Your cited example is from before the WHO even declared a pandemic, and 1 day after the first case of community spread was reported in the US. > Life continued as normal in Sweden, Russia, Belarus... If there is surge of deaths in nursing homes (typically 50% of COVID deaths), it has no impact on the rest of the economy. Sweden GDP: -8.6% Q2 2020. Russia: -9.6 Q2 2020. Those are massive shifts to say "no impact". Lastly: lockdowns have mostly exempted industrial production like Intel and only required operational changes.