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It's an impossible comparison to make. The UK has a population that skews towards older folks, a chronically underfunded healthcare system and we moved to lockd
by maxehmookau 5y ago
It's an impossible comparison to make. The UK has a population that skews towards older folks, a chronically underfunded healthcare system and we moved to lockdown later than a lot of other western european countreis.
A younger population, with a better healthcare system may have fared better if we didn't lock down.
I'm not a scientist, so I can't show you specific papers to back up my assumptions. Genuinely though, I would love to understand the idea that no lockdown in the UK could've done anything other than worsen the situation.
We can argue forever about the type, length and timing of the lockdowns and their relative impact, but that's pointless because even the most well-informed were poorly informed in April 2020.
- brigandish 5y ago> It's an impossible comparison to make. And yet Nature published Comparing the responses of the UK, Sweden and Denmark to COVID-19 using counterfactual modelling in August[1]. It's not as if that's the only paper making comparisons, even if we only look in Nature. > A younger population, with a better healthcare system may have fared better if we didn't lock down. I live in Japan, are you going to tell me it's a younger population? Or perhaps you'll make some claim about the healthcare system here based on… what I could not say as you have yet to give any indication of how your notions are backed, other than by political, tribal concerns. > I'm not a scientist, so I can't show you specific papers to back up my assumptions. As I've shown, one simple search should've turned up something, as I have a whole host of results. Biases should not go unchallenged, especially not through wilful ignorance. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95699-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95699-9 Edit: formatting