The Lockdowns Weren’t Worth It

> Yet not a single government has published a cost-benefit analysis to justify lockdown policies

Enjoy, here's a stackful of documents showing https://covid19.govt.nz/updates-and-resources/legislation-an... how a robust health response works.

Taiwan did better than just about everybody else without lockdowns.

Workplaces and schools stayed active.

The magic trick: universal masking.

Plus plastic partitions between people during mealtimes.

Plus putting up quarantined people in hotels where they received daily health worker visits, meals and a stipend.

In my hometown, I'm seeing workplace outbreaks exploding because infected workers are quarantined at home where their families get infected.

The other lockdown idiocy is confining people indoors when the safest place is outdoors (Crowded downtown sidewalks excepted where you really need to wear a wask).

>This time last year we had no idea how difficult it would be to control the virus.

There we plans and procedures in place, which were actively subverted by multiple levels of leadership, across the planet, for political reasons.

Not a space HN can display it's best face. Polarised views of the same underlying information makes it too hard.

The lockdowns didn't work because americans were involved and instead of staying home for 2 weeks got in their cars and stood on government steps with guns.

Clearly when the population realises that "muh freedom" isn't really a valid excuse and just stays put, it works fine (see: australia, new zealand)

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In my opinion if the lockdown has helped keeping the death ratio per 100000 person at around 1 as was the case for e.g. New Zeeland (if I recall correctly), then it's worth it - from the value of human life point of view. Then there are economic/capitalist point of views for which I don't care. Especially if the lockdown could save some loved ones. But this is just an opinion.