People ask this question a lot, and I think it's actually worth an answer, so my thoughts: Have lockdowns caused large numbers of excess deaths? 1/10 https://twitter.com/kknnaabb/status/1370949787084746752 …
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11/10 Small addendum - lockdowns could still be bad if they saved lives, the point here is that we are completely lacking the evidence that we'd expect to find if lockdowns caused many deaths as some claim
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Overall death rate in NZ declined during lockdown.https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)32647-7/fulltext …
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Oh this one tweet is going to make some blow a brain fuse

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There is a century of evidence that economic downturns, paradoxically, increase life expectancy https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/how-the-recession-improved-life-expectancy-but-didnt-make-us-healthier/265401/ …. The effect is not clearly explained and has become weaker over the decades. But it puts the lie to the idea that more $$ implies better everything for everyone
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A pandemic is not just an economic downturn, so this is only relevant for the economic consequences of the pandemic or of lockdowns.
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