#Lockdown

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

Which is more troubling - that this new member of the House of Lords does not understand that the issue with schools is mixing of kids, not vaccination of teachers?

Brittany Greenslade

BrittAtGlobal

I've spoken to at least a half dozen doctors in the past week on top of the 17 who wrote the premier. Each say the only option is another full

InProportion2

InProportion2

1/3WHAT LIFE IS LOST AS A SIDE EFFECT OF LOCKDOWN?Prof Simon Wood, Uni of Edinburgh, estimates:Grey: due to general economic deprivationBlack: extra life lost due to the economic crash of

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Data over the past week has utterly demolished the case made last week for the latest national lockdown, i.e. that infections (and subsequently hospitalisations) would not decrease without another full

Errol

errolbsk

Let's discuss the Anc's govt response to Covid-19. The govt did a lockdown, yet the govt knew it didn't have similar resources to countries like the Europeans and Chinese. Our

David Paton

cricketwyvern

This is an interesting read by @cjsnowdon but not sure his examples necessarily support his case.Take Ireland: Level 5 lockdown restrictions (pubs, cafes hairdressers shut) started on 24 Dec. The

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

At each and every point in the pandemic, the policy mistake seems to have been very similar. Step 1: watch case numbers rise, fail to lockdown because of the perception,

Hector Drummond, Stay Home. Die Slowly Inside.

hector_drummond

So a friend of my wife's came around for a visit today. She thinks the lockdown is mad. What's very interesting, though, is that she worked for years for PHE,

Bashaarat Masood

bashaaratmasood

Why is J-K admin so opaque. Like other states, why does the Covid bulletin not tell us about total number of beds, beds occupied, people in ICU, total number of

Sergio Olmos

MrOlmos

Anti-lockdown rally in Oregon Capitol Police in riot gear are about a block away, an unlawful assembly was declared earlier Protestors are gathered around a side entrance

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Only 9% think rules are too strict in current conditions; yet 7% believe the entire Covid pandemic is "invented". Scarcity of lockdown sceptics who are not conspiracists & cranks (since

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

As we head into a new lockdown, what lessons does the first lockdown have to teach us about what's to come in the grim weeks ahead? A thread.https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/lockdown-lessons/ The big

Paul Reynolds

paulrey99

Classic Lockdown monomania from @DPJHodges He assumes & asserts (w/o evidence) that Lockdown must save more lives & livelihoods than it costs - otherwise he'd have to admit to himself

Ravish Naresh

ravishnaresh

(1/n) Using what is the largest active data set on Indian MSMEs, we @Khatabook did an analysis of the impact of lockdown across all Indian states and major business categories.

Noor AlObaid

noorthatbakes

It has been reported that @Drbaselalsabah may implement a partial curfew/lockdown again if the numbers keep rising like they’re doing. This would be a huge mistake economically. During the first

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

DrRosena

You should be very careful about this, Nadine. That data shows an increase from Feb (pre-lockdown) compared to Mar/Apr/May (during lockdown). It also shows there was a 7% increase in

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