LOL! Thanks for the howler!!! IIRC, Cuomo said last week that 80% of the chinee woohoo flu patients in NY had been locked down (staying home and doing exactly what big brother said to do). Some success.
NYC was going to be stupid with nursing home patients regardless of whether there was a lock down.
I’m not sure what they could have done about the crowded subways, but I doubt that many people were really essential.
And there was going to be an economic cost whether there was a lock down or not.
Airline traffic was already dropping dramatically.
Restaurant traffic was down.
People were calling in sick.
It’s hard to say what the economic toll would have been without the lock down. But there were some studies from 1918 that indicated that cities that didn’t shut down fared worse economically than cities that did.
I don’t think the lock down was as severe back then. But they did close schools, churches, theaters, and events and limit gatherings.
There is absolutely no data to suggest the lockdown prevented anything. There is a lot of data regarding the harm it has caused starting with the unemployment rate. There is even some suggestion that the lockdown has caused more deaths than the virus when you add up suicides, violence, and the number of people afraid to seek care in hospitals and ERs combined with closed physicians offices