#Lockdowns

Bachman

ElonBachman

1\ This is a thread about how the structure of Sweden's political institutions allowed it to have the best COVID-19 policy in the worldI think it will be of interest

Steve Deace

SteveDeaceShow

If Trump loses to Biden's dementia-riddled brain this fall this will be why, and he'll only have himself to blame:1) Agreeing with lockdowns, the absolute dumbest management decision in American

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,

AlexL #TeamReality

FD2403

Great thread by Dr. Kaur. Lockdowns kill. I’m going to start with the obvious that human intervention has done nothing more than delay the inevitable. Thread below 1/nhttps://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1324862575021010948 Can anyone

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I appreciate that for non-scientists it is very troublesome knowing who to believe amidst this crisis of misinformation. For those without a scientific background, it is highly problematic to know

Ted Petrou

TedPetrou

In your opinion, what is the single best piece of evidence to show someone who believes in lockdowns that they didn't work?For me, it will be New Zealand's large increase

😃 unspinthespin 😃

unspinthespin

Bizarro moments in 20201. Masks don't work....ok wear the f'ing mask2. Money is dirty it'll give you covid (btw we have a digital system all set up) 3. Stopping flights

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ So you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see just how much money is at stake in developing vaccines for #sarscov2... or how much effort and money

Sam Bowman

s8mb

Good question @allisonpearson! What did they do in China and Wuhan that has allowed them to get back to normal? Well, they *didn't* try to infect their teenage children at

Ben Pile

clim8resistance

Once a government and its limbs, stuffed full of unaccountable panjandrums, finds it enjoys the power of lockdowns, it will use them.Once a government finds it quite likes retrospective taxation,

morgan

morgandw_

thinking about how uni students have been (and will likely continue to be) expected to produce the same quality and quantity of work despite the material circumstances and the state

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Lockdowns are unlawful and should never be attempted.But imagine if ebola (with a fatality rate of about 50%) suddenly becomes highly infectious, would lockdowns be justified then? 1/n Politicians are

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

There’s a middle way between blind hope (virus will disappear) & cynical fatalism (repeated waves & lockdowns). We can shape the future of this pandemic. Our actions matter. And there

Health Nerd

GidMK

Lockdowns have mostly not been associated with a large increase in suicide rates: a thread of evidence (CW: suicide, mental health) Since this has been a major talking point

Sam Bowman

s8mb

Toby misrepresents this paper. It doesn't look at the effects of lockdowns, it looks at the *pandemic*.The paper says (a) the economic effects are NOT only due to lockdown and

Possum Comitatus

Pollytics

Things the States need to learn from what's happening in Victoria, because this won't be the first time that these issues will occur over the next year /Thread. 1. The

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