Originally Posted by
Excargodog
and yet except for NJ and NY, who inoculated their nursing homes to produce a wave of casualties, nobody was all that resource constrained. Seattle set up an Army field hospital in Centurylink stadium and sent it back to storage nine days later without ever having seen a patient. Navy Hospial ships were sent to support NYC and LA and were scarcely used.
And states that didn’t lock down fared no worse statistically than those that did.
You can change the goal posts all you want, but you cannot show that locking down uninflected people has EVER been an effective public health tactic.
And almost one-quarter the total US deaths are directly attributable to three states screwing up by mandating that nursing homes full of susceptible people take in patient that were known to be contagious New York among those. About 45% of the cases in NY CAME FROM from nursing homes as a direct result of their BS directive.
Which they have now changed and will be paying billions for in a class action lawsuit in the near future.
To start, I don't think I moved the goal posts at all. I understand that nursing homes are hit hard, but just because it is 50% doesn't somehow devalue the other 50% out there that died not in a nursing home.
Speaking of citing sources, here is one for you. Sweden basically thought like you did and had very minor limitations in place, compared to much of the world and its neighbors. Well, guess what, they now have one of the highest mortality rates int he world because of it and their chief epidemiologist said he would do it different next time.
So, you have made arguments that the we can't make the cure worse than the disease. So looking from an economic standpoint, you would think Sweden would at least be holding on strong financially since they really didn't shut anything down. Well, you would be wrong there as well. They are currently having their worst financial crisis since WWII. While this is due to many things, obviously, the point is that leaving things open didn't cause them to fair any better than anyone else, all while now suffering some of the highest fatality rates.
I won't go on much more about it, I will link to it for your reference.
Man Behind Sweden’s Controversial Virus Strategy Admits Mistakes Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb...e-things-wrong Copyright © BloombergQuint