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Comment by matz1 | Hacker News Reader

Shutdown is not a good strategy:

https://unherd.com/thepost/oxford-epidemiologists-suppressio...

It is interesting that these doctors in the UK are claiming that tactics that have already worked elsewhere don’t actually work, while their country continues to suffer a massive outbreak of the virus.

On the other hand, here is a study showing two countries that have made great strides in containing the virus, after massive waves and deaths, and did so with a harsh lockdown https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...

That paper doesn't actually shows that its the lockdown that responsible for the decline. Its the classic correlation does not necessarily mean causation.

Good luck with the "doing nothing" strategy then?

Who says doing nothing ? There are lot of thing that can be done : vaccine research, method of treatment improvement, promote hygiene, increase medical capacity (if needed), etc

> promote hygiene

You mean like wearing masks? Because that's apparently a "political opinion" right now

The mental gymnastics is incredible.

The economy is going down the shitter no matter what. Might as well make it temporary instead of permanent (which is exactly what's gonna happen if "1%" of the entire world dies, and many more get severely injured due to COVID complications).

No it's not going to be permanent if 1% of the worlds population dies not sure where you are getting that idea from.

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