Are lockdowns justified?

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Covid-19 could be wiped out if idiots didn't insist on sabotaging such efforts.

Assuming COVID is spread only by droplets, that it is not airborne, closing schools does not make a lot of sense. Children who get COVID almost always have no symptoms whatsoever, they do not cough when they have COVID to spread the aerosol.

Droplets are airborne. Look up what a aerosol is.

Well, yes, plague is not good for the economy. However, lockdowns also do damage to the economy and mental health, and it is unclear whether they help against COVID. If they do help, they help the rich at the expense of the poor. Rich people do jobs which can be done from home. Poor people do not. In lockdowns, many poor people will do delivery work, meeting even more people than usual and get infected by COVID which they otherwise would not. "Check your privilege." may be a good response to those advocating lockdowns.

Delivery drivers do not meet more people than usual people, nor breach distancing rules. They are instructed not to do so.

Every country is. However, Croatia, as well as most of the Eastern Europe, is doing well on International Science Olympiads. At the International Olympiad in Informatics, for example, we are doing better than Canada and Finland: https://stats.ioinformatics.org/countrie...total_desc

What is the relevance of an obscure festival of math nerds to any of this?