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The west did not go for a strategy of elimination through lockdown. Rather, the strategy was to delay the spread, initially only so that the health care system
by munch117 3y ago
The west did not go for a strategy of elimination through lockdown. Rather, the strategy was to delay the spread, initially only so that the health care system could keep up, and later in the hope that vaccines would arrive in time to curb the brunt of it - as they did.
The GBD is easy to find and a short read (https://gbdeclaration.org/ https://gbdeclaration.org/), it does not refer to any elimination strategy - instead it discusses the costs of "Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available".
I don't see any quackery in the GBD. (Which is not to say that they were right.)
- noirbot 3y agoYea, for sure. Mostly responding to the OP more than stating what happened. I think we generally agree - for better or worse, most of the world decided on some limited strategy, which made the prospect of doing any sort of elimination essentially impossible. In that light, balancing whatever success at delaying infections vs. the downsides of being even partially locked down is a non-quack question in my mind.