Review of Johns Hopkins study that lockdowns were ineffective. Very interesting breakdown of the data.
I think his idea of successful is different from mine. If by success he says that lockdowns spread the deaths out, I suppose that’s true. And if by success he means some people who might have gotten covid during a time when no one knew what they were doing didn’t get covid because of lockdowns, I suppose that could be true. Those are the two primary points he made.
I think there is a greater measure of the success of lockdowns and that is, is the sum of all outcomes better because of lockdowns than it would have been without. I don’t know if a study could even come close to approximating that. This one didn’t. The lies told to try to get the lockdowns to be accepted by the public, two weeks to slow the spread, did great harm and that’s part of the sum too. I feel like the sum with lockdowns cost society way more overall.