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Epidemiologist Warns Lockdown Policies ‘Not Evidence-Based’, Unsustainable In Democracies
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:50 am
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:50 am
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Professor Giesecke currently serves as an advisor to the Swedish Government, was the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), and a former advisor to the director general of the WHO (he’s now retired and serves as an advisor to the WHO only in an honorary capacity).
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Below are a series of points made by Mr. Giesecke, via UnHeard:
UK policy on lockdown and other European countries are not evidence-based
The correct policy is to protect the old and the frail only
This will eventually lead to herd immunity as a “by-product”
The initial UK response, before the “180 degree U-turn”, was better
The Imperial College paper was “not very good” and he has never seen an unpublished paper have so much policy impact
The paper was very much too pessimistic
Any such models are a dubious basis for public policy anyway
The flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable dying first as much as the lockdown
The results will eventually be similar for all countries
Covid-19 is a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people.
The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1%
At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available
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Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:52 am to dgtiger3
So, a white man who won't check his privilege?
- Karen
- Karen
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:53 am to dgtiger3
Yup, what we said in mid-March.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:53 am to dgtiger3
But muh second wave!
But muh overrun hospitals!
But muh opening too quickly!
But muh overrun hospitals!
But muh opening too quickly!
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