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> It is also a known tool of any epidemic/pandemic management, it just has rarely been necessary at such scale given the intensity and wide distribution of COVI

> It is also a known tool of any epidemic/pandemic management, it just has rarely been necessary at such scale given the intensity and wide distribution of COVID. That must be why all the pandemic planning guides from various national health agencies specifically said do not do lockdowns, do no close schools and don't force masks... It was never a "known tool" to anybody. It was an insane, unproven pharmaceutical intervention that somehow, suddenly, became something "we always knew about". What we did for covid was absolutely insane.

boston_clone 3y ago
> That must be why all the pandemic planning guides from various national health agencies specifically said do not do lockdowns, do no close schools and don't force masks... Could you provide a citation? I’ve read the opposite from NIH, CDC, NHS, etc. For example, this is from 2013: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559034/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559034/