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Just two years to flatten the curve! Lockdowns are justified with bogus science.

chana_masala 5y ago
NicoJuicy 5y ago
No it's not. The current question is if lockdowns are required if the severity is way down. It just takes a while since they want to be sure of data coming in. Just relax ... It will take some weeks/months to confirm, if omicron is mostly harmless.
- chana_masala 5y ago
  Lockdowns were never required. Quarantine the sick has always been the strategy to contain disease, not quarantine everyone.
  - NicoJuicy 5y ago
    Lockdowns are the tool to prevent hospitals to become over crowded... Quarantine the sick and those that came in contact with them is a another measure to prevent the spread, but it's not an effective one when the hospitals are going to be overcrowded or when the healthcare system is about to collapse. Just look at what happened to Italy / New York. This is actually pretty basic stuff, you should already know this after almost 2 years.
    - chana_masala 5y ago
      - NicoJuicy 5y ago
        So you're claiming the entire world is wrong, but you. Yeah sure, that usually proves to be correct. Lol
        chana_masala 5y ago
        "The Entire World Finds Lockdowns Effective, And Other Silly Stories For Dim Witted Adults" by Nico Sap Everyone thought Semmelweis was wrong, too. If your heuristic for what is correct is the fact that everyone is doing it, well... I have some news for you.
        NicoJuicy 5y ago
        Lol. Sweden is the only one that didn't do lockdowns and even that failed. They could have a chance of success because of the low population density, which isn't transferable to other countries. That aside, check your facts please.
        chana_masala 5y ago
        Sweden was decimated! Everyone died! You're conflating what was done with what was viewed as effective. And Sweden wasn't the only country. Off the top of my head, South Korea and a few of the -stan countries also did not. Additionally lockdown is a spectrum. Many counties in the US were perhaps lockdown in principle but not in practice.
        chana_masala 5y ago
        I fail to see how Sweden failed. Sweden did no worse than many other countries who "locked down". What is effective vs. what the action was are different. And while there weren't many countries that stayed open, there were others - including S. Korea and some of the -stan countries. And many places, such as some counties in the US were locked down in principle but not in practice.
      - dang 5y ago
        As I just explained to you elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709141), we ban accounts that post like this. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
        chana_masala 5y ago
        Yes, thank you

No it's not. The current question is if lockdowns are required if the severity is way down. It just takes a while since they want to be sure of data coming in. Just relax ... It will take some weeks/months to confirm, if omicron is mostly harmless.

chana_masala 5y ago
Lockdowns were never required. Quarantine the sick has always been the strategy to contain disease, not quarantine everyone.
- NicoJuicy 5y ago
  Lockdowns are the tool to prevent hospitals to become over crowded... Quarantine the sick and those that came in contact with them is a another measure to prevent the spread, but it's not an effective one when the hospitals are going to be overcrowded or when the healthcare system is about to collapse. Just look at what happened to Italy / New York. This is actually pretty basic stuff, you should already know this after almost 2 years.
  - chana_masala 5y ago
    - NicoJuicy 5y ago
      So you're claiming the entire world is wrong, but you. Yeah sure, that usually proves to be correct. Lol
      - chana_masala 5y ago
        "The Entire World Finds Lockdowns Effective, And Other Silly Stories For Dim Witted Adults" by Nico Sap Everyone thought Semmelweis was wrong, too. If your heuristic for what is correct is the fact that everyone is doing it, well... I have some news for you.
        NicoJuicy 5y ago
        Lol. Sweden is the only one that didn't do lockdowns and even that failed. They could have a chance of success because of the low population density, which isn't transferable to other countries. That aside, check your facts please.
        chana_masala 5y ago
        Sweden was decimated! Everyone died! You're conflating what was done with what was viewed as effective. And Sweden wasn't the only country. Off the top of my head, South Korea and a few of the -stan countries also did not. Additionally lockdown is a spectrum. Many counties in the US were perhaps lockdown in principle but not in practice.
        chana_masala 5y ago
        I fail to see how Sweden failed. Sweden did no worse than many other countries who "locked down". What is effective vs. what the action was are different. And while there weren't many countries that stayed open, there were others - including S. Korea and some of the -stan countries. And many places, such as some counties in the US were locked down in principle but not in practice.
    - dang 5y ago
      As I just explained to you elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709141), we ban accounts that post like this. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
      - chana_masala 5y ago
        Yes, thank you