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by beebmam 1324 days ago
Are you claiming that the lockdowns that happened in the first half of 2020 had zero effect on SARS-CoV-2 infections?
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I'm literally asking a question, since it is news to me that "no professional infectious disease modeler will forecast out more than a few weeks."

Do I sense attitude? If so, why?

They did not.

Florida vs California.

read up.

In case anyone would like to actually read up on the impact of restrictions:

States That Imposed Few Restrictions Now Have the Worst Outbreaks (Nov 18, 2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/18/us/covid-stat...

I mean...

> Nov 18, 2020

Looks at deaths per capita, from Jan 2020 to today. The position of peaks is barely relevant compared to their cumulative impact.