"2 new studies show shutdowns were astonishingly effective
In the United States, the public health measures averted 60 million infections, researchers found.
...researchers looked at the number of deaths from Covid-19 in 11 countries in Europe. They found that 3.1 million deaths in these countries were avoided with pandemic control measures.
... shutdowns do work at saving lives and reducing the burden on the health care system.
...It echoes an earlier finding that the US could have avoided 36,000 deaths from Covid-19 if the country implemented pandemic control measures just one week earlier.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/9/21284087/coronavirus-covid-19-shutdown-lockdown-cases-deaths
"Lockdowns may have averted 531 million coronavirus infections":
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-coronavirus-lockdowns-may-have-averted-infections
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-coronavirus-lockdowns-may-have-averted-infections
"Not only have Finns followed the rules, but European Parliament research last week found that 23 percent of respondents in the country said that lockdown had actually improved their lives,..."
https://terb.cc/xenforo/threads/shutdowns-saved-young-people-from-worlds-leading-cause-of-death.722100/page-2
https://terb.cc/xenforo/threads/shutdowns-saved-young-people-from-worlds-leading-cause-of-death.722100/page-2
Want to avert lockdowns. Don't be covidiots. Or:
I'd suggest employing many thousands of the unemployed as C-19 rule enforcement officers. Get people back to work & kill the virus at the same time via enforcement. Kill two birds with one stone. Maybe even start with $1000 fines for first offences, or arrest & jail the covidiots. Hotels could be used for jailing purposes if the "accomodations" become full elsewhere. That could put hotel staff back to work rather than receiving free government payouts for doing nothing.
Making prostitution legal would also put many back to work ;
I'd suggest employing many thousands of the unemployed as C-19 rule enforcement officers. Get people back to work & kill the virus at the same time via enforcement. Kill two birds with one stone. Maybe even start with $1000 fines for first offences, or arrest & jail the covidiots. Hotels could be used for jailing purposes if the "accomodations" become full elsewhere. That could put hotel staff back to work rather than receiving free government payouts for doing nothing.
Making prostitution legal would also put many back to work ;
Oh? What's a "real lockdown"?
"U.S. surpasses 250,000 coronavirus deaths as virus mortality rate surges":
"...The United States has recorded a quarter-million Covid-19 deaths, the latest NBC News numbers showed Wednesday, and the death rate has been accelerating in recent weeks as cases have been surging across the country.
"...In the last four weeks there has been a 42 percent increase in the number of fatalities, from a weekly average of 821 per day in early October to last week’s average of 1,167 per day, according to an NBC News analysis of the available data.
"...And a year after the first Covid-19 infection was reported in China, people were dying in America at a pace not seen since mid-August, the analysis showed.
"..., the Trump administration's coronavirus testing czar, told MSBNC's Andrea Mitchell. "This is not crying wolf. This is the worst rate of rise in cases that we have seen in the pandemic in the United States. And, right now, there's no sign of flattening."
"...In an internal report obtained Tuesday by NBC News, the White House coronavirus task force warned there is “now aggressive, unrelenting, expanding broad community spread across the country, reaching most counties, without evidence of improvement but rather, further deterioration.”
"The task force report also warned that current efforts to stop the spread “are inadequate and must be increased to flatten the curve” and that the coming Thanksgiving holiday has the potential to “amplify transmission considerably.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...onavirus-deaths-virus-mortality-rate-n1248109
Where I live, there were never any lock-downs, and everybody has been doing fine. The people who are so scared thinking of all the bad things that might happen have serious problems going on that are definitely not normal; and that has nothing to do with the government or the coronavirus.
It's the same at the North and South poles & deserted islands around the world, etc ;
LOL
Is that where you live.
Why didn't you say where.
"U.S. surpasses 250,000 coronavirus deaths as virus mortality rate surges":
"...The United States has recorded a quarter-million Covid-19 deaths, the latest NBC News numbers showed Wednesday, and the death rate has been accelerating in recent weeks as cases have been surging across the country.
"...In the last four weeks there has been a 42 percent increase in the number of fatalities, from a weekly average of 821 per day in early October to last week’s average of 1,167 per day, according to an NBC News analysis of the available data."
