Lockdowns & masks are important for politicians so they can point at them and say “Look at what we are doing to save you from the invisible monster!”...
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H. L. Mencken
Will fascist Fauci and Bimentia follow the science? What utter Joek’s they both are.
The flip side of this observation is also true; social distancing, masks, and travel reduction don't provide benefits. Idiots!
This will be filed right next to the study from Berkeley declaring Water is Wet
Um...little good a post about a study does without a link to the study.
I fault the author of the linked story, primarily.
ASSESSING MANDATORY STAY-AT-HOME AND BUSINESS CLOSURE EFFECTS ON THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
Eran Bendavid1,2, Christopher Oh1, Jay Bhattacharya2, John P.A. Ioannidis1,3,4,5,6
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484
One year ago today:
After the Chinese city of Wuhan halted outbound flights, trains, buses and ferries in an effort to stop the spread of a deadly new virus, 12 other cities in the province followed suit, bringing more than 36 million people under lockdown.
After the Chinese city of Wuhan halted outbound flights, trains, buses and ferries in an effort to stop the spread of a deadly new virus, 12 other cities in the province followed suit, bringing more than 36 million people under lockdown. Health officials in Chicago said a woman in her 60s had become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the new virus; she’d returned from China in mid-January.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/today-history-75453369