[KarlInOhio]

Oh, the author thinks the lockdown is to control COVID. That's so cute.

[MinorityRepublican]

Compare Florida to California. Enough said.

[richardtavor]

I guess Biden will open things up on day one. What a coincidence.....

[TChad]

I keep reading about studies that prove exactly this.

Joe Biden isn't quite up to speed, as usual.

[Slyfox]

It has been an entire year.

[Sacajaweau]

I'm amused since at some point.....and fairly recently, Fauci said...."Open the Windows"...get outside...

But no saloons....and no eating inside.

[exDemMom]

The most important “take-home” of this study was not mentioned at all in the linked article. Importantly, the study found that individual behaviors drove most of the decreases in disease transmission. In most of the countries where “non-pharmaceutical interventions” were implemented, people had already begun to practice infection control measures.

No public infection control measure can possibly work when a large number of people fail to take the virus seriously, and refuse to participate in infection control measures. I can’t count the number of people I’ve seen walking around with their mask pulled below their nose, who are helping ensure that it keeps spreading and that the restrictions will continue. If everyone were equally concerned with preventing disease spread, the public health measures would be much more effective—and there would be fewer restrictions.

Here is the link to the original paper referenced in the linked article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484

[Steven Tyler]

You need to throw a couple of virgins into a volcano if you want to slow the spread of COVID.

[daniel1212]

The study examined virus cases in countries that used "non-pharmaceutical interventions" — the academic term for lockdown policies — to those that did not. Researchers examined cases from England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States, which all imposed lockdowns in early 2020, to two countries that decided to use less intrusive, voluntary social-distancing measures — South Korea and Sweden. The aim of the study was to examine whether policies that closed businesses and forced people to stay in their homes were as effective as less restrictive policies to contain the spread of the virus.

I am glad to see this study in contrast to the count hype and hysteria and prolonged restriction when very few healthy/fit persons are in danger, however, aspects such as population density, climate, and obesity rates needs to be factored into the ratio of Covid-assigned death rates per million.

[SaxxonWoods]

I can’t wait to watch Fauci twist himself into a pretzel agreeing with this.