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The places in the world that reacted the least to covid have excess deaths you can barely even tell there was a potent disease. Not a single country that avoid
by toolz 5y ago
The places in the world that reacted the least to covid have excess deaths you can barely even tell there was a potent disease. Not a single country that avoided lockdowns is in the top 30 excess death (per capita). So did many people treat this as a crisis? I would say so. Should we have? That seems to be clearly a no.
- willnonya 5y agoPeople are conflating the ideas of it being crisis and that it required government action, or at least the government actions we got. It is possible for something to both be a crisis and not be something that is handled well by the heavy hand of government.
- taeric 5y agoThis feels a little... Too convenient. Would love to see an analysis that covers all confounders. That is, I'm sympathetic to the idea that a lot of what we did was probably not super helpful. I'm less inclined to believe that a counterfactual world had fewer deaths. Seems more likely that, while we could have protected nursing homes better, most everything else was likely to look very similar to how it did. I mean, I get the butterfly flapping a wing argument. But in general, large things moving in a direction tend to arrive where they are headed.