[robertkoss]

Great Barrington -> 4th of October. Are you even reading my comments? I am referring to the first lockdowns which took place in April 2020.

"So we decided to go for the known devastating effects in case the disease was also devastating?" Of course we do in case of a pandemic, since we are dealing with a completely different underlying distribution of effects.

[HideousKojima]

Fine, from the WHO in 2019 (and before Wuhan) about what the response to future pandemics ought to be:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789...

Contact tracing, quarantine of exposed individuals, entry and exit screening and border closures are "Not recommended in any circumstances."