Rightwing sociopathic quacks like @BjornLomborg: are ALWAYS on the wrong side of things precautionary, (including climate).
Saying "no worse than the flu" was ignorant 3 months ago; saying it after data from the past few weeks is outright malfeasance.
@Twitter blocks fakenews.https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1248666930313134083 …
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Sure. But given the nature of fast-spreading infectious disease and our lack of good data, the risks are v asymmetric. Letting the genie out of the bottle is catastrophic; a marginal week of lockdown is “merely” awful. The only way to escape this trap & reopen is via mass testing
If it was difference between catastrophic and a couple of weeks of strong lock-down, you're right. But if lock-down needs to be very long, not at all clear. Interesting, Norway did cost-benefit analysis of strong/not-so-strong and found latter betterhttps://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1248287357457047555 …
