| > Lockdowns did help flatten the curve, many countries health systems were overwhelmed regardless, but without lockdowns the fatalities and outcomes for severe cases would have been an order of magnitude worse. There's no evidence to support this assertion, and plenty of evidence to the contrary e.g. Sweden. > It's hard to take your argument in good faith when you offhandedly say stuff like this -> "A lot of that stuff turneded out to be fabricated, but it spooked a lot of folks." But a lot of what spread around was fake: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/cor... https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/nypost-fake-news-people-dyin... https://www.concordmonitor.com/Burning-bodies-Mass-graves-Ec... https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/kamloops-mass-grave-debunked-b... https://reason.com/2020/04/10/no-nyc-is-not-running-out-of-b... > Look at the hell china is going through right now The hell is of the chinese governments own making. A Zero COVID policy cannot possibly work. |
Like all your other assertions this one feels self serving for your point of view when a rudimentary google search provides references to the alternative.
Consensus on efficacy of lockdowns flattening the curve with relevant bibliography.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02823-4
N of 1 as in what worked in Sweden (ranked 3rd in the global healthcare index and has a population lower than some cities in india) does not in any way shape or form meaningfully imply what would be good for the rest of the world (though it might certainly inform it)
I wasn't referring to the presence of fake/false/sensational/agenda driven narratives or your allusion to them, I was referring to your following offhanded assertions.
" Lockdowns were there to reduce the secondary consequences from running out of capacity.
That was the claim, certainly. But as we predicted, this never actually happened anywhere in the world - not even in places where people live in poverty, and healthcare is virtually non-existant."