Please critique the following statement: Nationwide lockdowns weren't seriously considered in any previous pandemic. If you can't disconfirm please answer the question: What's changed since 1968?
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII
This virus is quite a lot worse, I think? But also the incapability of the state everywhere except its police apparatus.
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Replying to @DanielleFong
From what I've seen in terms of excess death rates and when adjusted for population its comparable to 1968 although please challenge me on this if you see something different.
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII
There's widely varying belief in lethality at the moment, and it depends on whether the hospital system will be overrun. I am so afraid that we are going to get all kind of superspreading now.
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I think excess deaths are the best way to measure how many people are actually dying from it because we can compare to historical averages. Here is that data: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries?fbclid=IwAR2JE1Lkm2jcP2obUNl4VmALAfg1KD6OARXs015_sCUjD37VQus7OHI98jg …
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII
I don't think we've had was much spread as people think, not yet. It has to cross social barriers, which are many in this country.
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The recent unrest has made us cross many more barriers.
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