Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
by collyw on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:15AM
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> If everybody behaves lockdown-like, lockdown can be avoided.
Speculation without evidence.
Lockdowns are apolitical decision, not a scientific one. Lockdowns can be avoided if governments choose not to implement them. But most seem to be relishing in the emergency powers given to them.
You don't need lockdowns to stop the healthcare system from being overloaded, if everybody wears masks, socially distances, agrees to track, trace and isolate programmes, there is mass testing, no incentives for people to come to work sick, etc. One year on we have a pretty good estimate how each behaviour/measure influences the reproduction rate of Covid-19.
> Please stop pushing the unproven narrative that lockdowns stop the healthcare system being overloaded.
I don't understand what exactly is unproven. Lockdowns correlate with behaviour. The Chinese healthcare system was completely overwhelmed, even with CCP spin on things. In Bergamo, Italy, the dead were carried away in army trucks. Look at fatality rates for both countries at the time.