Quote: kobashi "Wearing masks and social distancing was totally correct. I will argue lockdown never needed to be so long and that's about it. The alternative was be like Sweden and do nothing to get herd immunity. That never worked out too well for them.
How about India and how there government mishandled things.'"
Masks only make outcomes worse, much like the majority of so called PPE, studies done in operating theatres prove that infections are more prevelent when masks are worn against non mask wearing.
You need to have a basic grasp of what PPE actually is, why it's always the last form of having positive health and safety outcomes as well as k owing risk compenation/risk homeostasis means.
'Social distancing' also has a huge overall negative impact on pubic health.
Removing the elderly from family and friends causing even greater isolation is one of the singularly biggest causes of advanced death, this includes the effects of mental health as a whole, several studies have been done on this, the increase in mortality is 26% according to this, !https://www.pnas.org/content/110/15/5797 see also this study where it raises to a peak 48% increase
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/behin ... 4-04-2013/
We also know that social distancing has a massive effect on all age groups, children particularly are negatively affected, we know for a fact that suicides/suicide attempts have increased around 69% according to London Ambulance service, being socially isoltated and social distanced has a massive impact on people's mental health, to ignore that isn't just niave.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-n ... e-19183036
that's before you even get to the billions spent on enforcing social distancing that could have been spent on proper health and social care in communities.
As for Sweden, please explain what didn't work out too well for them?
