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Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now
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Wide spread lockdowns were an anti-science position that politicians went with to appear to be acting.
Lol. "Anti-science"
The science is super simple.
Virus is transmitted person to person.
If person is not near other person, virus doesn't get transmitted.
What about that is "anti-science"?
Or, is your complaint actually "my local government leaders did things badly but because I worship team red, I have to blame evil science"?
The science for responding to something like covid wasn't complete lockdown. It was isolating those at risk, quarantine the infected, do contact tracing, and limit large crowds of people.
Think Mcfly, think.
How do you quarantine the infected if you can't identify the infected until they show symptoms?
You can't science good.
It was the worst public safety decision I have witnessed in the United States. It made a bad situation worse.
The issue is not with lock downs, the issue is a piss poor government handling of the situation. Leaving everything "open" for business would have quite literally collapsed sectors of services to the point of potentially snow balling into something worse.
Everything should have remained open within countries, international borders should have closed for six months. International ports could operate with certain restrictions to prevent cross contamination.
Hospitals were on the verge of collapse WITH lock downs. Can you imagine how bad it would have been if everything remained open? How many people died because of covid WITH lock downs active? Hospitals fail because they are overwhelmed, and it spit balls from there. I believe your suggestion would have been catastrophic at the least.
Hospitals would have been regardless. Lockdowns didn't decrease spread because churches were the number one location for spread and they were exempt.
Lockdowns absolutely decreased spread. https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/did-covid-lockdowns-work-heres-what-we-know-two-years
We are of course basing this on what we know. Had we done no lock downs, no masking. We can only guess at what would have happened.
Unfortunately religion prevented any lockdown from being a success.
https://theconversation.com/faith-in-numbers-is-church-attendance-linked-to-higher-rates-of-coronavirus-160527
That just says church causes higher chance of spread, not that lock downs don't work.
Fortunately, there were places where lockdowns were a fantastic success.
2020: 7 deaths out of 2.6 million
2021: 0 deaths out of 2.6 million, AND basically completely open
Not the USA, of course.
Because it was badly done in the USA. Half-assed.
Do it properly, and it worked well.