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I don't know what you are arguing against:

> The real question is not whether they work, but the tradeoffs.

Tradeoffs are hard. Also, objectives when balancing tradeoffs are subjective.

But you can suppress the virus for as long as you want if you are willing to accept the tradeoffs.

I'm questioning the definition of a "working" lockdown. I consider the trade-offs to be part of the definition of "working" in such a way that, as far as I'm concerned, lockdown does not work for this disease. This would change if the disease were to have a bad outcome for a larger part of the population or if the demography of the affected population was weighted towards younger people (like the "Spanish flu").

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