#LocKDown

Friz Frizzle

FrizFrizzle

Mental Health Talk!Today was rough. Lockdown is really reaching breaking point for many people. Remember: there's no right way to get through this. Binge TV shows! Or go for a

Daniel Saraga

danielsaraga

Estimated reproduction numbers for #Covid19 in Switzerland seemed to imply a small effect of the lockdown. (see e.g. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ansteckungsraten-flachten-bereits-vor-dem-lockdown-ab-809893127675)A preprint offers a possibl

dan barker

danbarker

Here's a nice little case study in what used to be called 'fake news'. It may be worth reading if you've seen that '200,000 lockdown deaths' number.This is a short

Gyromight

SSBGyromight

Am I crazy for no longer supporting @GovInslee’s lockdown of Washington State?I understand that locking down was necessary to stop the spread of the virus and keep our hospitals safe.

Timothy Gowers

wtgowers

It's good to do a cost-benefit analysis, but this is not the right comparison. It needs to be between the number of avoidable deaths caused by the lockdown and the

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

There seems to be considerable overlap between those who think we should be more worried about the economic costs of a coronavirus lockdown and those who thought we should not

Nicholas Watt

nicholaswatt

Break: I am told that a very tense meeting of the executive of the Conservative backbench committee 1922 has just concluded. Every Tory MP at the meeting and every MP

The Sunday Times

thesundaytimes

For many people, the pandemic has been a chance to hit the pause button on their busy lives — and some aren't ready to press play againhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/returning-to-reality-the-taboo-of-admitting-that-you-love-lockdo

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

Second, the point of lockdown appears strongly linked to eventual excess deaths. Here, we show the relationship between an estimate of infections on lockdown day and eventual excess deaths9/ As

Great Editor

simonchilds13

The other week journalist @MikeSegalov got hassled and shouted at by the police for filming an incident in a park. Here's the footage. Not a good look for the police

Sreevidya Balasubramaniam

BaluSreevidya

1. When Lord Sri Rama was in Vanavasa, the subjects of Ayodhya observed such austerities that they stopped taking food more than once, slept on the floor, and did not

Charlie Robertson

RencapMan

We all recognize that testing data doesn't tell us how prevalent the coronavirus is. If the % of positive test results for a recent day are higher than the cumulative

WarrantOfficer

HesseZubair

People are talking bla bla bla....who should enforce the total lockdown? Who? Ur fathers? We had the military to instil a little discipline and because u have read 'A Market

'Fisayo Soyombo

fisayosoyombo

Someone who travelled to Ondo from Lagos on Saturday told my colleague she boarded a Lagos-Ibadan bus around 4am & the driver ‘settled’ the security agents on the way. The

nathan ma

nthnashma

The German approach to ending a lockdown is refreshingly robust in its use of the term 'expert' compared to other countries: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/scientific-experts-release-proposals-for-loosening-the-lockdown-a-f6247e

Lood Louis. **End the Lockdown**

CoolLood

LOCKDOWN IS FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS:I went deep into to our local informal settlement yesterday.Life as *normal*. Children playing and unemployed strolling in street.Every spaza sells cigarettes (R4.00 for one).