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Ok but any reasonable person knows that lockdowns were the major difference during the past 2 years. Not sure why people are so fired up about defending lockdo
by sn0w_crash 4y ago
Ok but any reasonable person knows that lockdowns were the major difference during the past 2 years.
Not sure why people are so fired up about defending lockdowns.
- GuB-42 4y agoThe major difference is a pandemic, lockdowns are only one of the consequences, the other, obviously, is that a lot of people got sick from covid, and when hospitals are overran with covid cases, they don't have time for routine operations like cancer screening. Lockdowns are mentioned in the article as one of the contributing factor alongside "repurposing of health services". The Ukraine war and Brexit are also mentioned for the negative impact on cancer research done in the affected countries. The title only mentions lockdowns.
- ev1 4y agoTo be entirely neutral on this reply, it's not part of the title on the linked article and against guidelines to add it like that.
- sschueller 4y agoBut it's only partially actual lock downs. A large issue was hospitals and health care workers being too busy with Covid having to delay other procedures and appointments.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoI understand, but it’s also disingenuous to say that medical staff “too busy” and ignore the fact that many people were straight up turned away or intentionally placed on waiting lists.
- sschueller 4y agoYes, I didn't phrase that right.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoNP