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I just spent 5 minutes typing this up only to see your post.. thank you for also noticing. The other point made from this source (about permanent lung damage) is also wrong. I don’t see sources for the other numbers.

I agree never closing the economy would’ve been a total disaster. But the math here is bad.

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Writing from Ireland, >20 cases a day (as of writing). The lockdown here was a huge success.

But looking at the US numbers it seems that you got the worse outcome of lockdown/no-lockdown. Economical hit, plus number of cases are back on the rise due to people not isolating properly.

One could argue that for US lockdown was a mistake. Or at least very costly move to delay/prepare for peak infections.

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