Are lockdowns justified?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

@FlatAssembler

Last I heard, Sweden wasn’t doing so hot.

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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What exactly are you referring to as conjugation here?  Conjugation normally applies to prokaryotes, not viruses, so it's not at all clear what you mean.  References would help.

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