Excess Deaths in 2020

Re:Excess Deaths in 2020 by ryandrake on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:18PM (#26988062)

I would argue that in a lot of places, including most of the USA, lockdown didn't really happen. We had these lame, unenforced stay-at-home "orders" which people ignored, mask "mandates" that were openly disregarded and even publicly protested, business "closures" that were unevenly enforced. I think you'd have a hard time correlating anything that happened in the USA in 2020 with a lockdown, since nothing was really locked. It seems like a huge exaggeration to call what most of the world did a "lockdown".

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Re:Excess Deaths in 2020 by nucleardog on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:11PM (#26989171)

Any question of “what impact did a lockdown have” should start with clarifying what constitutes a lockdown.

From that definition, I think a lot of the conclusions people are drawing would be substantially less surprising.

If we’re going to call a polite suggestion to stay home and a potential for small fines which were never or rarely levied a “lockdown” then it’s not surprising it had little impact.

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Re:Excess Deaths in 2020 by viraptor on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:53PM (#26988314)

Correct, there's a really big difference between the "lockdown" in most of the US and for example Melbourne.

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