A Tale of Two Countries.

Argentina had perhaps the world's most draconian response to Covid-19.

Brazil was widely criticized for a more laissez-faire attitude.

Note the wide gap between their Oxford Stringency Index Curves.

What do you think happened?

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As of today, they have the exact same cumulative Covid-19 mortality per capita. Although Argentina's is still trending up whereas Brazil has stabilized.

Lockdowns are theatre. Psychologically, culturally, spiritually destructive theatre.

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In before accusations of cherry picking, this is merely an exemplar of a wider trend. Chaudry et al. took data from 50 countries and found no effect of lockdowns on mortality: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X/fulltext
A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and...

In this exploratory analysis, low levels of national preparedness, scale of testing and population characteristics were associated with increased national case load and overall mortality.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X/fulltext
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