Are lockdowns justified?

[arewethereyet]

Sweden has, as far as I know, done better that the USA in every measure. Deaths with COVID per capita in USA are 1,737.24, while for Sweden they are 1,353.66. That is not a lot of difference, but that is still Sweden doing better than the USA. However, I think a much more reasonable measurement for how well a country dealt with COVID-19 (deaths with COVID-19 are not necessarily from COVID-19) is the increase in mortality from 2019 to 2020. And Sweden there is far better than the USA. The USA had around 13% higher deaths in 2020, whereas Sweden had around 1.5%.
And other Nordic countries had less than 1%. The fact is that Nordic countries all had significantly less COVID-related restrictions (lockdowns, school closures, mandated mask wearing...) than the USA, and all had far less excess mortality in 2020 than the USA. The non-pharmaceutical interventions did not save countless people in the USA, and more strict measures would not have saved hundreds of thousands of people either. Something other than those non-pharmaceutical interventions is causing cross-country variance in the increase in mortality in 2020.

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Conjugation of viruses is when two or more viruses of the same or closely related specie infect the same cell and exchange genes, as I believe is clear from the context.

Angr’s right - that’s not conjugation.

But you keep digging, there’s a good lad.

Boru

Well, fuck me, I thought conjugation had to do with verbs.

Guess I should add this to what I know today that I didn't know yesterday.