Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado
by henrikschroder on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:15PM
(#29828439)
> Very few places did lockdowns at any point
This is some grade-a gaslighting, plenty of countries had long brutal lockdowns where no-one was allowed outside unless it was "essential".
> butthe ones which did were successful in breaking spread.
No. Many of those places had worse outcomes than places that didn't do any sort of lockdown.
(When I say lockdown I mean stay-at-home orders. Do you have a different definition?)
The best thing to happen is people staying home when symptomatic. Wearing a mask while knowingly symptomatic is unhelpful to others, so I disagree with your belief of the alleged benefit of alleged Asian culture.
Very few places did lockdowns at any point so I wouldn’t expect that to start now, butthe ones which did were successful in breaking spread. It doesn’t need to be continuous, but it’s clearly effective for preventing huge spikes.
Similarly, we’d save lives and billions of dollars if we established the same social norms which some Asian countries have about wearing masks when you’re symptomatic. It doesn’t need anything like 100% compliance or time to be useful – we appear to have lost an entire strain of influenza this way.