The main topic of this thread is saving humanity from adverse man-made climate change. We are also talking about saving millions here.
We now have examples from all around the globe. China's super strict approach seems like it sort of worked for a while, but even they had cases.
The US is 91 million of the 584 million cases identified so far. It's ~5% of the global population with pretty low density outside of, what, 3 cities? Truly embarrassing that one of the wealthiest G8 countries can't handle outbreaks of any sort — to the point that NY has identified hundreds of polio cases for the first time in a decade.
It's not going to be pretty if the US faces another outbreak of something that kills and cripples the way that polio did just a few generations ago. I'm not convinced the answer then won't be the same, except now instead of sacrificing grandma we can place anyone on the altar of capital.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Click on deaths per 100,000
Draw your own conclusions.
No, they didn't. This has been studied six ways from Sunday. They had no effect.
"Probably millions"
Lol. If you're an epidemiologist, sure, they love fantasy numbers like this.
Actual numbers of lives saved are probably negative, given the apparent absence of any impact on case numbers combined with the poverty and loss of access to healthcare they created.