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A Scientific Explanation

This is not a scientific explanation, and as a scientist I despise people who try to argue what are political decisions with bullshit.

Science is numbers, causes, means of transmission and statistics of outcomes, etc., what treatments result in what prognoses with what likelihoods, etc.

The choices one makes informed by that are political choices, also informed by law, economics, etc.

Scientists should stop abusing science to do what science cannot do, or what it should not be used to do, which is to force political decisions as if they are preordained.

And by the way, while I support valid and effective public health measures in the face of contagion, I don't support the lockdown and forced economic collapse of our country. But that isn't a "scientific choice," it's an economic and political choice. And if our laws and constitution don't allow it, it's a legal choice.

there was a video going around a few weeks ago that got taken down, if I remember correctly it was an interview with a coleague of Fauci's who was a virologist who said this same thing and basically claimed that this pandemic was produced as a worldwide extortion racket to advance socialism and crush the US economy in order to topple the USD as world reserve currency

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/world-will-need-new-financial-system-after-covid-19-1.4211363

this is not a "scientific explanation" - the author just posts claims and political reasoning

If you look at the empirical evidence from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu the findings demonstrate a strong association between early, sustained, and layered application of nonpharmaceutical interventions and mitigating the consequences of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in the United States. This separate study shows the same - lockdowns emphatically and empirically work

cities that adopted the most aggressive social distancing measures had the highest economic growth after the restrictions were lifted.

Moreover, cities that implemented NPIs 10 days earlier than other cities increased their manufacturing employment by 5% more than those that imposed restrictions later. The difference lasted through to 1923.

Overall they found an additional 50 days of social-distancing was associated with a 6.5% percent increase in manufacturing employment.

Countries that went into lockdown early - Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Greece, Portugal, Germany were hit far less hard than those who went into lockdown LATE like Italy, Spain, France, the UK and Sweden.

People standing in line at walmart, sharing the pipe cutter at home depot and having food delivered made by unknown cooks with grubby hands is not a quarantine.

Apollo 11 astronauts 3 weeks in a germ isolated environment is a proper quarantine , not three months of tyranny with home deliveries and “essential” approved outings by the governor

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-apollo-11-crew-quarantined-3-weeks-after-moon-landing-2019-7

Its no wonder we have never been back to the moon