billy the kid wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 1:00 pmConversely, South Korea and Taiwan did not have lockdowns...Redneck wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 12:43 pmOpinions are like arseholes...everyone has one!billy the kid wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 12:32 pmhttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/deb ... -pandemics
"When China first deployed lockdown in January to “defeat COVID-19,” The Washington Post approvingly quoted a Georgetown University professor as saying,
“The truth is those kinds of lockdowns are very rare and never effective…”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pandemic planning documents state non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing are ineffective once a disease infects 1% of a region's population. Literature on this subject is unanimous worldwide. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control:
No respiratory virus ever needed a “lockdown” to dissipate. What it needs is herd immunity, preferably sooner than later, preferably developed by the young and healthy to minimize mortality.
Uummm...which "health experts" are our politicians avidly listening to.....
How long will it be before our politicians give up and secretly move to herd immunity....
Werent lockdowns used in at least one of the worse European countries (Spain or Italy)?
They experienced fewer cases and deaths...
Worldwide, epidemiologists are divided on the subject.
I am not an epidemiologist....I wouldnt know...
Im simply providing my scepticism as our politicians are those who make the decisions
based on the opinions of the epidemiologists which they listen to.
Only time will tell if they got it right in Australia...
Of course, the public will be told that they got it right.....
My understanding is South Korea and Taiwan were well prepared as they suffered during SARS.
They had a plan and put it into action rapidly.
Lockdowns and isolation have historically proven effective in stopping transmittable diseases.
For 100's of years, isolation has stopped transmittable diseases.
Masks are effective. If everyone wore masks when in public it would have a huge effect.