Thread by @PiersRobinson1

Useful analysis of what lockdowns actually achieve .... Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: His new MLB COVID-19 Study and the Dilemma of the ... via @YouTube

1) Regarding what lockdowns do: ‘I think in the back of peoples’ heads is this idea that somehow we can eradicate the disease if we just stay locked down. That is not possible the epidemic is too widespread to eradicate It’s not possible to eradicate it with a lockdown,(13.30)

2) It’s not that the lockdowns, people look at the lockdowns and say things like, ‘ok the death rates have to go down for like 14 days in a row and we can then lift the lockdown, right’.

3) But if I’m right, the lockdowns are effective, you lift the lockdown and it just starts growing again … the lockdowns are not a mechanism for disease eradication … it will only delay when the disease happens, now or later’ (22:41)

4) Regarding the ‘risk of death’: ‘What we found … is somewhere between 0.1 and 0.2, one in a thousand or two in a thousand risk of death … same thing in LA County, actually they found the same thing in Miami (?), …

5) I think in Germany they found somewhere between .25 and .4 percent …. New York City five in a thousand, it’s basically consistent worldwide somewhere between 1 in a thousand and 5 in a thousand in all of these seriological studies worldwide’ (28.12- 28.50)

6) Regarding the Lives vs economy argument:
US presidential candidate Joe Biden’s:- “no life is worth losing to add one more point to the Dow”
Bhattacharya:- ‘You have mischaracterised the other side, ...

7) are you in favour of 75,000 people killing themselves extra as a result of the lockdown, are you in favour of starving tens of millions of children from across the earth. I don’t think an accusation of callousness,

8) I mean there is morality on both sides of this argument is what I am trying to say. And it is extremely misleading to say that it is only the people who want to lift the lock down are people who are greedy, focused on money, that’s just not right.

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