Somehow even 12 months into the pandemic, people are saying "yes but how many of those 100k UK deaths were due to Covid and how many were due to lockdowns?" Time for a (short!) thread:
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Imo the expected negative outcomes from lockdown were always on the scale of years or even decades (i.e. slowdowns in vaccine programs in some places, poverty, missed medical appointments etc) rather than the giant wave of deaths that some espoused
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Yep agreed. Plus the mental health burden, which may not even show up as years of life lost, but is absolutely real and may show up in other ways.
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