noddy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:35 am
Doc wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:28 pm
The point of the lockdown was to slow the spread until treatment was understood enough to lower the death rate of an unknown disease.
The coronavirus lock downs should have ended in May
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yah, the initial couple of months was needed to let everyone in the hospital and retail systems adjust and only required a small stimulus to support.
the ongoing full lockdowns in many places are unjustified madness - all shops now home deliver, all hospitals are now fully on top of how to isolate/treat it.
I agree. The initial lock downs were to prevent the medical system being overwhelmed. Without access to critical care the death rate would have been much higher. There was no knowledge on what worked and what didn't worked. No knowledge on how it spread. "15 days to flatten the curve" was what was asked for. Then it got political and that "15 days" turned into "Until the election to flatten the curve"
The goal is to reach herd immunity. Either by a vaccine or by enough people getting the virus and surviving. Lockdowns impede that from happening.
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Many have argued that the above is not a good idea because it would lead to more people dying. But that is without taking into account that coronavirus can and will mutate over time. The longer it is allowed to fester the greater the danger of that.
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But Dr David Nabarro, Great Britain's envoy to the WHO, last week called lockdowns a 'ghastly global catastrophe', said the policy would double the levels of world poverty and child malnutrition, and called on governments to end the policy.
Early in the pandemic, Facebook and Twitter designated the World Health Organization (WHO) as their primary authoritative source for information on the virus, including recommendations for lockdowns and strict social distancing. Both publishers blocked, removed or flagged posts that challenged or condemned lockdown orders, citing WHO guidelines.
In typical authoritarian fashion, Facebook and Twitter chose to push one centralized source while browning out content offering different perspectives or competing recommendations,” said Mr. Wernick. “The resulting policy of extended lockdowns that shuttered and shattered our economy, closed our schools, and drove us to social isolation, has been an utter disaster.
“Now we see WHO officials condemning the very lockdown policy they themselves orchestrated. Clearly, the WHO failed. Facebook reinforced that central point of failure and was instrumental in driving global lockdowns and amplifying their disastrous consequences. Millions of our most vulnerable will now go hungry, grow ill, or even die as a direct result. Facebook and Twitter, both of which experienced tremendous financial gains during that same period, are complicit in that suffering.
“To best address complex issues like the global Covid pandemic requires that policy makers, as well as members of the public generally be equipped with data from multiple sources and perspectives. Human beings, even so-called ‘experts,’ are fallible. Technoauthoritarians like Facebook destroy the flow of information, prevent the natural human process of learning and error correction, and thereby drive bad policy—often with disastrous results. It’s time to #Erasebook, #Twexit and join the movement at Parler.”
