Why lockdowns do not work in one tweet: Rapid antigen test numbers from a district with 124k residents. In 8k tests (6,45% of the population) since before Easter week, 21 were antigen positive, of which 7 were PCR confirmed asymptomatic/ presymptomatic positive for SarsCov2.https://twitter.com/infect_prevent/status/1382786193071468546 …
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So you lock down an entire district of 124k people, because maybe 100 of them are pre- or asymptomatic positive. Even without a lockdown, most of these people wouldn‘t have infected anybody; and the chances the outlier superspreaders break through your general lockdown ...
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... which targets almost entirely people who are not even infected or who are but will infect nobody, are quite high. This cannot be emphasised enough: Lockdowns target average people and average behaviours. The pandemic is driven by outlier people with outlier behaviours.
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yep, spread is a stochastic event driven by a minority of people who are symptomatic yet choose to attend many events, and those people are the super spreaders not a huge sample but zero clusters here had an asymptomatic index case. All were symptomatic.
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