#Lockdowns

el gato malo

boriquagato

sweden's position in these rankings has invited a great deal of criticism for not locking down (despite being surrounded on that list by other countries that did)an intriguing question is

Mark Tomlinson

markskeptic

Remarkable piece by Richard Cash and Vikram Patel. I will paste one long quote in a thread. Has COVID-19 subverted global health?https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31089-8/fulltext#.XrbwOav9ZOg.twitter "Concurrent

Joel Smalley 🌸

RealJoelSmalley

A comparion of the impact of lockdowns and vaccinations on COVID - a simple statitical analysis. Correlation does not equal causation. However, almost without exception, there is no discernible benefit

Clay Travis

ClayTravis

A couple of weeks ago blue checkmark brigade told us peaceful people protesting lockdowns were selfish for violating social distancing rules. Now there are infinitely bigger & violent protests &

Shrutika Murthy

MurthyShrutika

@ARISEHub and @GeorgeInstIN ’s partner, @dbrcap has launched a #fundraising campaign on @ourdemocracyin , to support #wastepickers #sanitationworkers & their families in 3 cities of AP, who have been severely

DR JAGADISH HIREMATH MD

Kaalateetham

Social distancing is a privilege.It means you live in a house large enough to practise it.Hand washing is a privilege too. It means you have access to running water. Hand

Bachman

ElonBachman

1\ Daily NYC Coronavirus updateReminder: darker bars are recent data releases, lighter bars are older data releasesDiagnoses have maintained an April 2 peak through three data releases: 2\ Hospitalizations have

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Famous last words, but it does now look as if only blatant theft — which is possible! — can save Trump. But what will be the state of the nation

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

Many folk simply cannot get past the absolute number of Covid deaths. It feels big to them, and it justifies ANYTHING. Argue at all, and you are deeply ethically flawed.

balajis.com

balajis

Why didn't the Spanish Flu lockdowns cause unprecedented unemployment?This strikes me as a critically important question.We know why the economy of 1918 was more robust to, say, an electromagnetic pulse.Why

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

New #NBERday paper out today making the argument I've made, if a bit less aggressively:Quite weak evidence that state policies actually lead to much social distancing. https://www.nber.org/papers/w27027 Curiously, they find

Lesley Carhart

hacks4pancakes

I think the most numbing part of the last year is that I’ve kept making really unpleasant predictions, and very smart authority figures I respect continually reassured me I was

Hector Drummond

hector_drummond

An important article from AIER. A year on we can see that Neil Ferguson's modelling was a total failure in the control countries and US states which didn't lock down.

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

The lockdowns will never end. Each deadly pandemic will be succeeded by a new one, until under-exposure to the environment raises our susceptibility to formerly benign viruses, and colds become

Siobhan Heanue

siobhanheanue

I know this isn’t relevant to Aussies and I know lockdowns are distressing and hard even when aimed at the common good. But these restrictions and reactions make me think

Jeff (BPredict)

BPredict

This data is a good reminder that people aren't locked inside because they were ordered to by the government, but rather that the government ordered lockdowns because people were already