#LockDown

Chrystia Freeland

cafreeland

As a Toronto MP, and a mother of children back at school in Toronto, I fully support the extension of lockdown restrictions in Toronto by another week. As we look

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

One person has a cough and the whole of the financial capital of the perfect utopia that is New Zealand is shut down.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-auckland-into-level-3-lockdown-nz-to-alert-level-2/VICFSFKSMGMQRU2WKBTIT

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

This study needs to be interpreted with an abundance of caution, given we already have real-world evidence that contradicts this. Results heavily dependent on assumptions- & these don't account for

Rachel Hewitt

drrachelhewitt

This raises interesting questions. Why would specifically women's levels of running increase during lockdown? I personally found that fewer men out on the streets meant I felt safer. BUT it's

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

Looks like the UK and Sweden followed similar outbreak patterns in both waves. The UK did noticeably worse under heavy & repeated lockdowns than Sweden did without the same. Sweden

Jennifer Yang

jyangstar

Where would Ontario be today if we'd gone into lockdown before Christmas instead of after? I obtained new cellphone mobility data to examine what happened in the week before Boxing

Ben Shapiro

benshapiro

Is the new big plan for fighting covid-19 for everyone -- no matter the underlying risk factor -- to simply hide until a vaccine is developed? Which, by the way,

Josh Taylor

joshgnosis

So the person who said they'd bought a pizza from the Woodville Pizza Bar and caught covid was actually working there and lied to contact tracers, so fears of community

Statistics Guy 🤓

Stat_O_Guy

The Anomaly in weekly deaths that has been swept under the carpet.14,440 excess lives were lost during lockdown 1 and they did not, i repeat did not die of Covid!

Mark Brown

MarkOneinFour

This is super interesting. The protective factors against being lonely in lockdown were not being lonely before lockdown. That's interesting because so much rhetoric has been about the effect of

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

1/ Now that countries are doing mass testing, we can see what happens when lockdowns are introduced. In France, for example, lockdown started on 30 Oct and cases peaked 8

Sam Bowman

s8mb

I've written about the unforced errors and things we DIDN'T do that have led us to a second lockdown.https://sambowman.substack.com/p/covid-the-war-we-never-fought I highlight some of the predictions that claimed there would be

Henry Mance

henrymance

the silver lining of lockdown is the chance to post this clip again just to explain who’s who... Nicola Sturgeon: Boris Johnson: Lockdown-sceptic Tory backbenchers: Every parent trying to work

Andy

AndyHarrod79

1/ I am all for the argument nature can be good for us, but treating nature as a separate entity to humans, when we are nature is problematic. Nature isn’t

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Duncan is right. Lockdown rules are slightly softer. More key workers. More COVID-compliant workplaces.It feels v plausible there’s less compliance this time around but is that really clear cut from

Andrew Lilico

andrew_lilico

This is going to sound like mockery but I don't mean it that way: we need to try to be more understanding & forgiving of folk who are saying bonkers

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