One of the things that always annoyed me about the GBD was how intellectually dishonest the whole thing is/was. None of the "focused protection" measures were ever realistic for a long-term endemic disease
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So it was essentially a given that any place pursuing the GBD's primary focus of having no restrictions on anything would eventually expose all citizens to COVID-19
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But the language was always this vague "protect the elderly" nonsense while the actual measures advocated for would by definition cause the elderly to be infected
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"The elderly can all get their own hotel rooms while the pandemic sweeps through" makes sense if you're talking about a 2-week peak of infections, perhaps, but not when we're 18 months in and some places are on to their 3rd, 4th, and 5th waves
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Also, a fascinating fact is that most advanced economies DID protect their elderly population to an enormous extent, at least post April-2020. In most richer locations with serological data, people over-70 have MUCH lower infection rates than under-70
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Note - this is important because it happened BEFORE the GBD proposed it, which goes to show that even with "focused protection" places can have enormous death tolls from COVID-19
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The same people who support this nonsense are the ones freaking out about the CDC's "shielding" approach which wasn't even about putting people in camps

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I don't know about that - I would very much like to be protected from the Great Barrington Declaration!
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Antivax/antimask folks often mention the GBD... so it's entertaining to see their heads spin after mentioning the authors are provax/promask...
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They also managed to distort the argument into them claiming to be the only ones who cared about mental health and the economy. In reality, not controlling COVID is worse for economies, and having loved ones die and living in fear of infection is not good for mental health.
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I can agree, the restrictions yes do have a fallout however, they are the best option in the long run!!
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This is Mitt Romney telling indebted college kids to borrow money from their parents levels of elite delusion.