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.
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I’ll just add that it is an —objective analysis— of those things you mentioned- (NOT Michael Mann hockystick analysis- that’s for sure), but sadly in many cases it no longer is- science is being bastardized by propagandists-
I’m pretty sure that I saw the peer-reviewed study that showed that the “clampdown” was better than “doing nothing” published in the J.I.R. the other day.
AmIWrong?
This was not meant to be an article on a peer reviewed “scientific” journal. So you are a scientist? So what, I am too.
The science says there is no way to stop the virus. This guys last statement is true. You can’t stop the virus because you can’t track the virus. You would have to test everyone, everyday. Not going to happen.
If you can’t tell who has the virus,
and its highly infectious,
and 5% of the populous already has the virus,
and you don’t know who they are,
then you cannot stop the virus unless you can test everyone to figure out who has it. And of course you have to continually test these people while you are testing and tracking. Like a game of wack a mole. You will never win.