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Lockdowns to prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
In early 2020, many nation states introduced unprecedented legal restrictions on freedom of movement, termed a “COVID lockdown”, because it was nominally as a response to COVID-19. Officially only intended to last matter of weeks, in most nations they stretched into months, and were repeated. While they had unprecedented effects on society, as of early 2021, evidence that they impacted the spread of Covid-19 significantly is remarkably thin.
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Efficacy of Lockdowns
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8821113/The-average-age-death-coronavirus-82-4-years-writes-DAVID-ROSE.html?fbclid=IwAR0ldBBdM51rUH3YPFW_-hZv_72p2Oz1337D22cft3XXpBGtDlsHino2kOk don't seem to be having much impact on infections
Externalities of Lockdowns
Mortality Effects
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56425115 March 17, 2021 (BBC) Covid-19 disruptions [they mean lockdowns 🙄] killed 228,000 children in South Asia, says UN report… meanwhile they only had 186,000 covid deaths at the time this article was published https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1384903351540793355 https://www.unicef.org/rosa/media/13066/file/Main%20Report.pdf