Originally Posted by
Taksin
No they didn't. If we want to understand the differences between the death rates of different countries, we have to look beyond our imagined explanation - the lockdowns succeeded or failed - and closer at actual explanations (now that we know that isn't true) such as metabolic health, pre-exisiting immunity (as with the East Asian countries who are more exposed to coronaviruses), demographics, and in the case of the comparison between Sweden and its Scandanavian neighbours, the severity of the previous season in terms of the vulnerable aged who are ready to succumb to a respiratory virus.
The video I posted above recently examines these differences in detail and compares countries with a very strong military dictatorship type lockdown, such as Peru, who did worse than its neighbour who underwent no lockdown - Brazil.
We have had severe lockdowns here. Scotland has done very badly in global comparison terms, for example. If we had a low season in terms of mortality you would probably be saying it was due to lockdown. As we have had a relatively poor season in terms of mortality you are convinced it is due to a failure of lockdown and not getting it 'under control'. That logic is missing an essential component - being able to know the difference.
I am completely aligned the instincts of that gym owner by the way. If we had listened to him instead of Neil Ferguson we would be in much better shape and probably have less deaths over all. The mocking of him in the media is a sign of our being brainwashed, in my opinion, and will serve the new totalitarian formation very well.
What do you make of this 99.95% survival rate stat?
"...and my inch is like a freight train, so I only use it in self defence"
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