Lockdowns in Europe and the US decreased COVID-19 mortality by a measly 0.2% on average, while the economic costs of lockdowns were enormous. Lars Jonung, , and I find ZERO evidence to support lockdowns. Take a look.
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This is such a terrible study, I’d fail a student if they submitted it.
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How many people is a "measly" .2%?
It's utterly disgusting how some will argue for the sacrifice of human beings to benefit the economy.
For families who lost loved ones, the economic loss would have been cheap at twice the price to save a life
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huh. National level data for federated health systems is nonsense you know... Or maybe you don't?
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Take care of the virus and the economy with take care of itself.
That's how big the fight is now.
It's odd to see the free market abandoned like Santa when kids find out it was just their parents.
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Why does your study conveniently omit indoor gatherings sans where you admit higher mortality, but with Non-Sequitur Fallacy? Not because people aren't educated does mitigation not help.
I yield to your expertise, but I'm sorry, you're obviously economists, not epidemiologists.
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We saw incredible spikes in mortality rates post indoor gatherings—as you touch upon in your thesis, yet you conveniently fail to expound on it numerically.
Virologists, epidemiologists and elected representatives of the people must add these numbers to the lockdown equation.
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Nobody cares about lockdowns anymore. The big issue is vaccinations. People are losing their jobs over mandatory vaccinations, and for what? Where is one REAL study showing that vaccinations worked? Another issue is mask mandates. Did they work? Did they cause more damage?
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Some of the economic costs and effects were already predicted here in April 2020: doi.org/10.1111/kykl.1
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Isn't looking to economists for analysis of a global pandemic equivalent to asking your plumber to look at your car??? Wonder if JHU medical department has weighed in on this? Their observations are the ones that matter, esp. looking at your other posts.
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