Read on Twitter
this is a foolish take and a misreporting of facts.
lockdowns and masks have no beneficial effect on spread.
but cases are a terrible metric because the tests are so over-sensitive (and testing level varies)
you pick up trace virus from months ago. https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1327250052482527233
lockdowns and masks have no beneficial effect on spread.
but cases are a terrible metric because the tests are so over-sensitive (and testing level varies)
you pick up trace virus from months ago. https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1327250052482527233
this means that in a place like sweden that had more spread before, you have a larger body of recovered, non-clinical patients to give you false positives.
this is why deaths are showing such a different story.
(and sweden counts more inclusively by far than US, EU)
this is why deaths are showing such a different story.
(and sweden counts more inclusively by far than US, EU)
"cases" as defined by just "a positive pcr test" are a nearly meaningless metric.
more on that here: https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1327237316923035659?s=20
more on that here: https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1327237316923035659?s=20
you wind up with distorted data from a rise in testing levels.
triple your sample rate and you get 3X the "cases" from any given population prevalence.
that does not make disease more common.
triple your sample rate and you get 3X the "cases" from any given population prevalence.
that does not make disease more common.
and lockdowns are long term killers, not saviors.
they break the formation of the useful kinds of community resistance and make the next wave more deadly.
it's a property of social percolation.
who gets sick when matters. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1315669937269202944?s=20
they break the formation of the useful kinds of community resistance and make the next wave more deadly.
it's a property of social percolation.
who gets sick when matters. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1315669937269202944?s=20
this is why deaths in the hard lockdown countries are all exploding again and sweden is not.
sweden is ~20% of last peak. france is nearing 60%, lockdown leader belgium is 70% and nearly 2X what sweden hit in april.
this is self inflicted. lockdowns did this.
sweden is ~20% of last peak. france is nearing 60%, lockdown leader belgium is 70% and nearly 2X what sweden hit in april.
this is self inflicted. lockdowns did this.
team lockdown is desperate to convince us that all the egregious harm they did by falling for pseudoscience that was literally contra-indicated in all the longstanding pandemic guidelines bought us something, that it saved us.
it didn't. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1280990976694083585?s=20
it didn't. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1280990976694083585?s=20
covid lockdowns have been the most expensive non-wartime self-harm ever purchased by humanity outside of communist 5 year plans and might even compare to those.
locking down again just amplifies the problem AGAIN
rule one of not being stupid: stop doing stupid stuff.
so stop.
locking down again just amplifies the problem AGAIN
rule one of not being stupid: stop doing stupid stuff.
so stop.
