This is a garbage-in, garbage-out analysis, akin to saying, "We analyzed 100 cities, and found that those with levies were more prone to flooding. Thus, we conc

This is a garbage-in, garbage-out analysis, akin to saying, "We analyzed 100 cities, and found that those with levies were more prone to flooding. Thus, we conclude that levies offer no protection against flooding." We know mechanistically why levies work: they block water. We know mechanistically why lockdowns work: they reduce transmission. Less transmission means fewer infections means fewer deaths. You can see this most clearly in the zero-CoVID countries, which had dramatically lower death rates during the pandemic. Taiwan and China had virtually zero deaths for much of the pandemic, because they traced literally every infection chain and capped it off. They reopened after vaccinating most of their populations, which means that most people in those countries had a primed immune system when they first got infected. As we know from numerous studies, that dramatically reduces mortality.