I think a better way of putting it may be ‘pandering to all countries, no matter how reprehensible so as to keep access and achieve global health goals, for the greater good’.
But you’re right. Unfortunately to an extent they have to be.
L. Nobody ever said that so stop virtue signaling. In fact here in the US it’s been proven u didn’t have to completely lock everything down. We’ve been locked down in California for a year and the results we’ve had here are similar to Florida who’s been open and allowed 30,000 fans at the Super Bowl last weekend ffs. They also have a much older state as far as median age is concerned. Theres been plenty of science to support the idea that these complete lockdowns haven’t helped control the virus at all in fact they only increased the spread as of late because of the fatigue involved with them.
You can’t just pick two different places and say they have the same COVID rates and one is in lockdown one isn’t therefore this shows lockdowns don’t work.
If you want to see if lockdowns work you need to see how the rate changes in each place before and after lockdown to measure whether it is a success or not. The data is clear on this, there is no argument to be had, rates and death rates drop after entering lockdown.
The argument should be if Florida had entered lockdown how much lower would they’re rates have been.
Other studies have oppositely determined that lockdown orders have saved lives.
For instance, a Imperial College London study published in the journal Nature found that some 3.1 million deaths had been averted due to lockdowns across Europe early on in the pandemic. “This data suggests that without any interventions, such as lockdown and school closures, there could have been many more deaths from Covid-19,” said Dr. Samir Bhatt, an author of Imperial College London study.
From the summary page and it also explicitly only refers to lockdowns at the beginning of the outbreak as opposed to once it is rife.
No lol. The author of this study was also one of the leads of the “great barrington declaration” where they forged sinatures of health experts for backing of their statement on herd immunity which was pretty much denounced the scientific community.
Nope not true at all, have u even read anything about it? There’s a website where ppl were adding fake names all you had to do was provide an email address lmaoo. I’m pretty sure 3 health experts from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford didn’t forge names like Doctor Johnny Banana on their study about Covid my dood.
But regardless, I’m not advocating for a herd immunity strategy, I’m just saying I don’t believe the lockdowns worked. We had the deadliest month in California immediately after a lockdown, shelter at home order…ppl clearly are fatigued and not listening to the instructions anymore.