RE: Are lockdowns justified?
April 23, 2021 at 8:25 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2021 at 8:33 am by FlatAssembler.)
(April 23, 2021 at 7:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 23, 2021 at 6:58 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I don't study how things are going in Sweden. There are multiple reasons things went south here with regard to COVID...starting with denying it then denying how bad it is.
Nice side-step on your part by the way.
There are two reasons the US did badly regarding COVID:
1. Donald Trump
2. People who listened to Donald Trump.
Boru
What about Donald Trump? Sure, Donald Trump did suggest treating COVID with a cure for malaria, even though there never was a good reason to think it would work, but it is hard to argue it played a significant role.
(April 23, 2021 at 6:58 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(April 23, 2021 at 5:15 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: So, @arewethereyet , what do you think is the reason the US did so poorly fighting against COVID? The US government did way more than the Swedish government did, yet the US has been doing worse than Sweden.
I don't study how things are going in Sweden. There are multiple reasons things went south here with regard to COVID...starting with denying it then denying how bad it is.
Nice side-step on your part by the way.
What do you mean "denying it and then denying how bad it is"? If anything, early estimates significantly overestimated how bad COVID is. Early models suggested around 1.5 million people would die of COVID in the US... if the USA had a complete lockdown.