Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-Covid forecasts

Re:Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre... by hedora on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:57PM (#36106239)

> I’m down with learning and evaluating. I’m down with building a better society from our pain.

No offense, but from the first part of your comment, it is clear you were part of the problem, not the solution, on this front.

We did all the things you suggest after the last pandemic. The findings strongly cautioned against attempting another lockdown. For covid, that advice was ignored, and now we are seeing excess deaths comparable to the “isolate just the most vulnerable, and get it over with in a month or two” approach, along with huge economic and societal costs from the lockdowns.

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Re:Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre... by piloto_ciego on Monday May 29, 2023 @09:10PM (#36120076)

This is revisionist nonsense in America. We didn’t do a damn thing here and 1m people died. We didn’t have real lockdowns here, we had 1 year of remote school but, beyond that not much.

It was perhaps the single greatest tragedy in America since WWII and we basically said “think of the economy!” and happily sent everyone back after a very limited period of time.

We learned nothing.

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