COVID Lockdowns Debate
The cluster focuses on debates over the effectiveness, necessity, costs, and consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns, including comparisons to no-lockdown strategies and arguments on whether they saved lives or caused more harm.
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Doesn't lend credibility for suggesting lock-downs for future pandemics. Yay.
Maybe fewer have died of covid because of lockdown?
Why the article doesn't mention the Lockdowns at all?
Yes. The lockdowns just delay the inevitable at a tremendous cost.
Because the lockdowns aren’t about a virus
That's only assuming the lockdowns were effective compared to alternatives.
I’m with you - I just wanted to point out that despite the lockdowns, we’ve likely ended up killing even more people.
I think the idea is that as more data comes in it looks like this virus is not as bad as was first feared. There is no current data supporting a U.S. death toll of 2-4 million.And a lockdown at this point doesn't save any lives, it only postpones the inevitable spread of the virus. It is not reasonable to stay in lockdown for a couple years until there is a vaccine, not for a virus that kills only 1 of 500 people.
It is not the pandemic, it is the lockdowns.
That's what happen when you lockdown. The solution is simple: stop the lockdown. At this point the harm is greater than the benefit.