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What is @PanData19's agenda? It's well framed by our basic tenets on lockdown:
1. Lockdowns run contrary to pre-Covid science, which consistently advised against quarantining the healthy under any circumstances, particularly because they entail devastating collateral damage.
1. Lockdowns run contrary to pre-Covid science, which consistently advised against quarantining the healthy under any circumstances, particularly because they entail devastating collateral damage.
2. Basic epidemiology predicts that, in the face of age-graduated mortality, which Covid demonstrates, general lockdown will cause worse mortality outcomes than doing nothing, which will in turn be worse than focused protection, advocated by the Great Barrington Declaration.
3. It is therefore not surprising to find in the data that lockdown stringency is not associated with reduced Covid mortality.
4. Sustaining a policy that negates pre-Covid science and the emergent experience, and which entails phenomenal collateral damage, is madness.
4. Sustaining a policy that negates pre-Covid science and the emergent experience, and which entails phenomenal collateral damage, is madness.
5. Coercive measures in general fail to grasp the complexity of society & deny human agency. Thus they obliterate our ability to evaluate our own trade-offs, making them fundamentally regressive, & generating burdens that fall hardest on the poor & lightest on the zoomerati.
6. We advocate non-coercive focused protection measures as the route to minimizing both Covid mortality and collateral damage, and to prevent widening inequality.
7. Such a position cannot honestly be described as a “let it rip” approach. Rather it uses our best science to minimize harm and maximise human agency. Collectivist approaches fail at both hurdles, as they've done throughout history in a variety of settings.
This perspective should appeal to those of any political perspective, except for authoritarian technocrats. They have been pumping out pseudoscientific nonsense for months, as is their habit. If you aren't one of them, join us. http://www.pandata.org
