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Locking down people in their house can be also a root cause. Our reaction to covid has been probably worse than actual covid.

andybak 3y ago
How does that mesh with this article? Also where do you live? I'm curious what your experience was.
tomrod 3y ago
Respectfully, I think you're wrong and assuming a personal speculation.
- commandlinefan 3y ago
  I actually sort of enjoyed the lockdowns, but I have a job that I can do from home and I’m not a particularly social person. Pretending that they didn’t or couldn’t have harmed other people - significantly - is arrogant.
  - tomrod 3y ago
    Pretending to no effect whatsoever of lockdowns on people would be arrogant. I'm glad we agree. It's also not what the parent commentator said, when they point to lockdown as the root cause (not a cause) of the 5% increased death rate. The activity you labeled as arrogant is denying the antecedent to what the parent and my comment said.
    - peteradio 3y ago
      OP said "a" root cause not "the" root cause. Few things have a single cause.
someNameIG 3y ago
Here in Australia we had pretty long lockdowns compared to many other places. Our excess deaths are multiple times lower than say the US or UK for example.
- Gwypaas 3y ago
  "Tiny island nation which has extremely tough rules on biological imports shielded itself from the rest of humanity for two years" does not have the same ring to it. Be careful to equate correlation, i.e. fewer deaths due to stringent lockdowns to causation Or just contrast what you said with what at the time came known as the "Swedish Experiment". You know, letting kids and teenagers go to school. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-per-million-covid?tab=chart&country=AUS~SWE~USA~GBR https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-...
  - someNameIG 3y ago
    "Tiny island nation" Population wise we're small but not tiny. We're 2.5X Sweden population, we're more populous than all of Scandinavia. Land wise we're around the size of the continental USA. "shielded itself from the rest of humanity for two years" We also did ok stopping it spreading within the nation also.

andybak 3y ago

How does that mesh with this article? Also where do you live? I'm curious what your experience was.

tomrod 3y ago

Respectfully, I think you're wrong and assuming a personal speculation.

commandlinefan 3y ago
I actually sort of enjoyed the lockdowns, but I have a job that I can do from home and I’m not a particularly social person. Pretending that they didn’t or couldn’t have harmed other people - significantly - is arrogant.
- tomrod 3y ago
  Pretending to no effect whatsoever of lockdowns on people would be arrogant. I'm glad we agree. It's also not what the parent commentator said, when they point to lockdown as the root cause (not a cause) of the 5% increased death rate. The activity you labeled as arrogant is denying the antecedent to what the parent and my comment said.
  - peteradio 3y ago
    OP said "a" root cause not "the" root cause. Few things have a single cause.

someNameIG 3y ago

Here in Australia we had pretty long lockdowns compared to many other places. Our excess deaths are multiple times lower than say the US or UK for example.

Gwypaas 3y ago
"Tiny island nation which has extremely tough rules on biological imports shielded itself from the rest of humanity for two years" does not have the same ring to it. Be careful to equate correlation, i.e. fewer deaths due to stringent lockdowns to causation Or just contrast what you said with what at the time came known as the "Swedish Experiment". You know, letting kids and teenagers go to school. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-per-million-covid?tab=chart&country=AUS~SWE~USA~GBR https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-...
- someNameIG 3y ago
  "Tiny island nation" Population wise we're small but not tiny. We're 2.5X Sweden population, we're more populous than all of Scandinavia. Land wise we're around the size of the continental USA. "shielded itself from the rest of humanity for two years" We also did ok stopping it spreading within the nation also.