MYTHS cont.: - that government regulation to prevent disease necessarily costs money - that there is no economic cost to large epidemics - that "the vulnerable" are a discrete, readily defined category
Some MYTHS about COVID-19: - that herd immunity is inevitable - that epidemiologists love lockdowns - that it is less lethal than flu - that we can easily protect "the vulnerable" - that we can "let it rip" without cost
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MYTHS cont. - that there are simple solutions to a COMPLEX pandemic - that t-cells can magically solve our problems - that 10% of the world has been infected already - that there is a silver bullet, whether it be HCQ, remdesivir, vaccines, etc
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Interestingly, I've never been able to figure out who actually made that graph. The non-COVID deaths can't be from this year - unless they are entirely estimated - so I'm fascinated to know where the numbers came from
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It was public policy experts who pushed the idea of everyone doing shutdowns in March and that’s because almost every government was caught napping.
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Lockdowns have been a mainstay of epidemic control for ahhh... a very long time. - 1609 Shakespeare published the Sonnets - because the theatres were closed in a time of plague. We just think time started with the latest PM because Australia has a vested interest in forgetting.
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The cost in lives of lockdown must also be considered. At best lockdown offers 5% reduction in deaths (based on available data not modelling), compare that to the modelled 75 - 150 k deaths lockdown has and will continue to cause for years to come.
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Who measured the "5% reduction in deaths (based on available data not modelling)"?

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If herd immunity is not inevitable, please explain why sars-cov-2 is special in the history of viruses, and will somehow keep infecting us over and over until the entire human race dies? Is that not the only alternative to herd immunity, either through infection or vaccination?
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Coronavirus would not be unique in not forming lasting and effective immunity. Simpleism doesn’t help in this area.https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/503030 …
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