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This article deserves its own thread. Remarkable article and surprising
What makes it "surprising?"
I thought shutting down the economy and isolating would have had a bigger impact on stopping the spread of the virus.
What did you expect?
At the beginning they were basically talking about having the same number of people die, but at a slower rate so as not to "overwhelm the medical system."
I don't believe that is correct. The models didn't show fewer infections in the long run, but they did show fewer deaths after mitigation because of better health care (i.e. not overwhelming the system).
Yes, that makes sense.
the initial "14 days to slow the spread" models indeed did show a flatter, longer curve that would have the same number of cases spread out over a short period of time, in order to avoid a steep/high spike that would overwhelm the system.
The mitigation models are what has been used to continue the "14 days to slow the spread" into 700+ days of onerous, ineffective sovereign power intervention into free markets.
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
I can't imagine the lockdown measures affected you all that much, considering that most of them ended over a year ago without you noticing. They were always envisaged to last at least several months. "14 days to slow the spread" was a Trump administration catchphrase, not a scientific model.
LOL Democrats have wrapped themselves in the flag of science to set themselves above critique, no matter how obviously wrong-headed their policies might be.*
Lockdowns and enduring mitigation policies have destroyed millions of lives. That mine was only affected in ways I could afford is immaterial. I'm not part of "the poor," who always bear the greatest burden of the damage from bad policies. But, unlike you, I do see their pain and am trying to get them some relief while others continue to virtue posture no matter how much collateral damage it causes. (vaxxes and masks in children & public schools being a great current example.)
Many elite institutions , already groaning under the strain of decades of poorly serving society, have fatally damaged themselves, too. Garcetti saying "i didn't exhale" and the gut-gnawing going on at CNN is just the tip of the iceberg. Local govt and national media....making asses of themselves.
*The left doesn't know it yet, but climate change movement is dead in the water. Nobody believes experts anymore. Experts lie at will to push their own agendas. The public is not going to continue to follow along.
