Your arguments about health care systems collapsing in the absence of lockdowns are highly emotive but not factual. The experience from Sweden, from Serbia, from the US states which didn’t do second lockdowns, is that the health care systems didn’t collapse. You are arguing from the unexamined assumption that no lockdown means failed health care system and your assumption is empirically, provably false. Please update your views accordingly.
Now you’re moving goalposts. Of course you can find places that didn’t need lockdowns. I thought your position was that lockdowns were almost never/nowhere worth it. If your position is just “some locations didn’t need lockdown (e.g., the ones where governments decided not to do it)” – that’s extremely different. Whether lockdowns make sense is to be assessed case-by-case, because the virus (and new variants of concern) affected different locations differently.
In your other comment, you attribute a claim to me that I haven’t made (“you have provided zero support for your own claim that lockdowns do more good than harm”). All I did was saying that I’m already skeptical since you were making the opposite claim with extremely poor and flawed arguments; I didn’t sayI confidently disagreed with your conclusion. Pointing out the favorable mention of Ioannnidis’s 0.15% IFR estimate isn’t “nitpicking of your evidence.” It’s damning that you rely on a source that does this – it’s off by a factor of three to seven. After more than a year of the pandemic, you simply cannot be off about the IFR by this much without looking quite poorly. If someone (the person you were citing/recommending) writes an entire report on how bad lockdowns are but thinks the virus is at least three times less deadly than it actually is, this person seems incompetent and I cannot trust their reasoning enough to buy into the conclusion.
Your arguments about health care systems collapsing in the absence of lockdowns are highly emotive but not factual. The experience from Sweden, from Serbia, from the US states which didn’t do second lockdowns, is that the health care systems didn’t collapse. You are arguing from the unexamined assumption that no lockdown means failed health care system and your assumption is empirically, provably false. Please update your views accordingly.
Now you’re moving goalposts. Of course you can find places that didn’t need lockdowns. I thought your position was that lockdowns were almost never/nowhere worth it. If your position is just “some locations didn’t need lockdown (e.g., the ones where governments decided not to do it)” – that’s extremely different. Whether lockdowns make sense is to be assessed case-by-case, because the virus (and new variants of concern) affected different locations differently.
In your other comment, you attribute a claim to me that I haven’t made (“you have provided zero support for your own claim that lockdowns do more good than harm”). All I did was saying that I’m already skeptical since you were making the opposite claim with extremely poor and flawed arguments; I didn’t say I confidently disagreed with your conclusion. Pointing out the favorable mention of Ioannnidis’s 0.15% IFR estimate isn’t “nitpicking of your evidence.” It’s damning that you rely on a source that does this – it’s off by a factor of three to seven. After more than a year of the pandemic, you simply cannot be off about the IFR by this much without looking quite poorly. If someone (the person you were citing/recommending) writes an entire report on how bad lockdowns are but thinks the virus is at least three times less deadly than it actually is, this person seems incompetent and I cannot trust their reasoning enough to buy into the conclusion.
I will drop out of this discussion now.