Personally I do not know anyone who is "pro-lockdown".
I know many serious academics who are "pro the proper use of lockdown, when necessary"!
And I see "academics" who are pretending to be antilockdown but who are "actually creating the conditions for inefficient #lockdown(s)"!
"Academics on the pro-lockdown side of the Covid political debate are now regularly relying upon the paranoid ravings of a conspiracist blogger as one of their primary sources for attacks upon the Great Barrington Declaration." - @PhilWMagnesshttps://www.aier.org/article/quacks-in-the-ivory-tower-how-conspiracy-theorizing-took-over-lockdown-science/ …
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That is not a declaration, it’s a theory that never worked. Nowhere. What happened if you do nothing: Take a look at Brasil or India.
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When one sorts a complex world through a Heroes v Monsters paradigm, distortions r integral. Consider-the-source USED to denote a sophisticated approach to analysis. TODAY, it’s a cudgel wielded by bad actors to dismiss results they don't like/ruin reputations/dry up funding.
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GBD *assumed* that the vulnerable could be protected. What was done to *actually* protect the vulnerable? Or was this just an excuse to let let things go?
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1/2 For an aim of separating infection from hospitalisation, to avoid catastrophic effects of breaking capacity, there are several approaches: 1 GBD 2 improved underlying health 3 early outpatient treatment 4 (prophylactic) vaccine Much of the developed world blocked 1,2,3 -
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2/2 On blocking 3 I am appalled that for >18mnths the ‘it’s not RCT’ crowd haven’t offered a research method that can be used alongside frontline protocol development. Putting a methodological barrier against learning in an emergent & urgent situation is incomprehensible to me.
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