4/n This is odd, because there are now half a dozen academic studies showing NO increase of suicides during lockdown, and a further few published by governments:https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1336493616097681412?s=20 …
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5/n Moving on, education The very first study is a red flag. This is the research that a colleague and I have published a critique about due to mathematical, statistical, and theoretical errors https://osf.io/9yqxw pic.twitter.com/fVA1K7otkk
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6/n Next up, we have in red a white paper by a for-profit exam/tutoring company, blue an analysis of students who got free school meals, and green an interesting non peer-reviewed "observation" piece from the institute for fiscal studiespic.twitter.com/4GH1N2m7s8
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7/n Not nearly as bad as the suicide page, but it's not quite the robust evidence that we are promised on the tin
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8/n Moving on, the employment section is just bad. Only the UK, no attempt to disaggregate the impacts of the epidemic from lockdowns, just blaming any and all financial issues on government actionpic.twitter.com/WRW8SJlSoU
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9/n This is particularly surprising given that economists have indeed produced detailed analyses of the financial impact of lockdowns vs widespread COVID-19 epidemics For example, the IMF, who said this:pic.twitter.com/jWH9taOVOs
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10/n Pretty odd to have a whole webpage on the collateral impacts of lockdown on the economy and completely ignore a report by the IMF saying that lockdowns may actually benefit the economy in some circumstances
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11/n The Cancer page is a bit better, but again many of these studies don't address lockdowns specifically. Not sure why these would be included in a webpage about the collateral impacts of lockdownpic.twitter.com/AEAQmiRHY5
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12/n All of this is a bit galling. The question of government restrictions and COVID-19 is a vitally important one. The answers are complex and nuanced
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13/n Instead of engaging with that, the authors of this website are presenting all of these pieces of often very detailed scientific research as some kind of proof that lockdowns are bad Which is nonsense
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14/n In reality, as we now know from many places in the world, the impact of COVID-19 itself are problematic, and there are quite clear BENEFITS to lockdowns in some cases
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15/n The scientific approach is to approach restrictions with careful consideration Instead, we see this sort of absurd political rhetoric from the authors of the GBDpic.twitter.com/CcNvrjh1zW
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