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COVID Lockdowns Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:20 pm
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Hmmmmm so now that Biden is a few days away from taking office, all the biggest lockdown politicians (New York Gov, Chicago Mayor, etc) are all coming out saying we can’t afford to lock down any longer, and a new study comes out saying maybe lockdowns don’t work.
Man they sure are making it hard to not be a conspiracy guy.
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A new study evaluating COVID-19 responses around the world found that mandatory lockdown orders early in the pandemic did not provide significantly more benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures, such as social distancing or travel reduction.
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The peer reviewed study, which was conducted by a group of Stanford researchers and published in the Wiley Online Library on January 5, analyzed coronavirus case growth in 10 countries in early 2020.
The study compared cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the U.S. – all countries that implemented mandatory lockdown orders and business closures – to South Korea and Sweden, which implemented less severe, voluntary responses. It aimed to analyze the effect that less restrictive or more restrictive measures had on changing individual behavior and curbing the transmission of the virus.
The researchers used a mathematical model that subtracted "the sum of non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) effects and epidemic dynamics in countries that did not enact more restrictive non-pharmaceutical interventions (mrNPIs) from the sum of NPI effects and epidemic dynamics in countries that did."
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Using that model, the researchers determined that there is "no clear, significant beneficial effect of [more restrictive measures] on case growth in any country."
"Implementing any NPIs was associated with significant reductions in case growth in 9 out of 10 study countries, including South Korea and Sweden that implemented only lrNPIs [less restrictive NPIs] (Spain had a non-significant effect). After subtracting the epidemic and lrNPI effects, we find no clear, significant beneficial effect of mrNPIs on case growth in any country," the study said.
"We do not question the role of all public health interventions, or of coordinated communications about the epidemic, but we fail to find an additional benefit of stay-at-home orders and business closures," the research added.
The efficacy of lockdown orders has been a hotly debated topic since the start of the pandemic.
Hmmmmm so now that Biden is a few days away from taking office, all the biggest lockdown politicians (New York Gov, Chicago Mayor, etc) are all coming out saying we can’t afford to lock down any longer, and a new study comes out saying maybe lockdowns don’t work.
Man they sure are making it hard to not be a conspiracy guy.
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:22 pm to RebelExpress38
I called it months ago. Post election, covid will magically disappear. Well, here it is. However, the left is trying to balance ending Covid vs. implementing mandatory vaccines and papers. Something tells me, they'd rather keep Covid going if it means greater control in the long run.
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:22 pm to RebelExpress38
Red pills for everyone!
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:23 pm to RebelExpress38
The media/policy pivot to "none of these measures are even working, so we have to open back up" is coming far more quickly than I thought it would.
Every reasonable person alive already knew this to be the case back in April.
Every reasonable person alive already knew this to be the case back in April.
This post was edited on 1/15/21 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:24 pm to RebelExpress38
Well, it took them a few days after November 3rd to shape the narrative AND they wanted to make sure nothing was overturned... Now, it is safe for Covid to go away...
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:36 pm to RebelExpress38
Get ready covid will be gone by summer
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:38 pm to RebelExpress38
Crickets from the media on this bit of news
And now that it’s out, and Chicago and NYC are opening back up... it’s gonna vanish.
They played politics with every single one of our lives and livelihoods to get Trump out
And now that it’s out, and Chicago and NYC are opening back up... it’s gonna vanish.
They played politics with every single one of our lives and livelihoods to get Trump out
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:39 pm to RebelExpress38
Dr. Faustus says you are wrong.
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