#Lockdowns

Mel Conway

conways_law

Good news. Governors of Atlantic-seaboard states are setting up a regional management structure for addressing an emergence process from lockdowns. Let's see this become regional, then national, completely bypassing the

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

Pareto’s Law: 80% of Covid-19 infections are in 20% of the districts.We must concentrate on what can be restarted in 80% of the districts with minimal restraints on the public.1/2

Eran Segal

segal_eran

Second lockdown?In Israel, the first to impose a 2nd lockdown:1. Surprisingly, the 2nd lockdown worked faster and more effectively than the 1st, despite being less tight2. The effect differed across

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ I'll admit I stopped worrying about the geniuses at @IHME_UW for a while. I assumed after April they had given up embarrassing themselves.Nope. Seems they're still here. Somehow after

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

A brief reminder that all-cause excess mortality data from EuroMoMo continues to show that Sweden does *not* have very much excess mortality yet, and that the Netherlands has about the

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

I unironically think this is fine and we should do at least some version of it in America.https://twitter.com/berniespofforth/status/1320860041910591489 In principle, the best thing to do is quarantine all close contacts

Bachman

ElonBachman

There's a lot of eye rolling in response to the question of whether lockdowns work"Of course they do, nevermind the data."But consider other infamous moments in medical history:"Hand washing is

James Todaro, MD

JamesTodaroMD

1/ An unknown side effect of lengthy lockdowns may be decreased crossover immunity to COVID-19.Research on SARS-CoV-1 suggests that lack of exposure to the common cold coronaviruses could actually worsen

Omnipotent Moral Busybody

OBusybody

1/13 Universal lockdowns are bad policyHere are 12 articles, since April, that provide a sample of the evidence available, indicating lockdowns are not a key intervention in preventing the harms

Martin Steiger

martinsteiger

1/n «Rather than tell you comforting lies and what you want to hear, I’m going to tell you some unpleasant truths. The world has fundamentally changed […]. If you are

David Thunder

davidjthunder

--THE SCIENCE & POLITICS OF COVID-19: A THREAD OF THREADS—For the convenience of my readers, I am posting a compilation of threads I have composed on Covid-19, in the hopes

NITISH KAPOOR

nitishkap

Bear market: A lot of people are trying to compare the current markets with 1929 and 2008 crisis and are trying to predict two things: how low will the bottom

Seth Mandel

SethAMandel

ah.https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2020/05/22/600-physicians-say-lockdowns-are-a-mass-casualty-incident/#45595b3a50fa Those who equated 'you should open the parks and other sprawling outdoors public areas' with 'yo

Alex Andreou

sturdyAlex

For a second day this week, Greece has zero #Covid19 hospital deaths. Total remains at 130. Overall increase in mortality rate (so incl care home/community deaths) is so small as

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Let me explain why anybody who is for lockdowns is using grandma as a human shieldI’ve repeatedly linked to this thread by @federicolois, but I want to explain it is

Feynman

19_phd

1/ At this point in the pandemic we’ve largely exited the realm of science and entered the domain of belief and human desire. This is evidenced by hugely exaggerated claims