Mayors & Governors, Presidents & Prime Ministers; Shelter in Place

[littleman]

This article really resonates with me:
There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID

>Mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-COVID times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll

[ergophobe]

Here's What We Know About 'Johns Hopkins Study' on Lockdowns
It's a non-peer reviewed working paper that has not been endorsed by the university.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/02/03/johns-hopkins-study-on-lockdowns/

Worth a read, especially if you are having discussions/arguments with people influenced by the Covid denial mediaverse

[ergophobe]

Followup. Here's a quote form the Reuters article the Snopes article cites

The Imperial team estimated that by early May, between 12 and 15 million people in total in Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland - around 4% of their combined population - had been infected with COVID-19. By comparing the number of deaths counted with deaths predicted by their model if no lockdown measures had been introduced, they found some 3.1 million deaths were averted.

A second study by scientists in the United States, published alongside the Imperial-led one in the journal Nature, estimated that lockdowns in China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, France and the United States had prevented or delayed around 530 million COVID-19 cases.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lockdowns-idUSKBN23F1G3

[Brad]

>  delayed

This is an important thing, not just because it prevented ICU's from getting overwhelmed, but because we learned better ways of treating patients that were infected.  People have a better chance at survival now 2+ years into the pandemic than people did at the beginning.

[rcjordan]

CDC: US Records 1,045,389 Excess Deaths During Covid-19 Pandemic
https://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-has-had-a-million-extra-deaths-since-the-pande-1848547641

[rcjordan]

Coloradans Seek A Fourth COVID Booster Shot, Few Are Eligible – CBS Denver
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2022/02/15/colorado-covid-booster-fourth-shot/

[rcjordan]

UK Ministers meeting now to confirm 'living with Covid' plans
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/feb/21/uk-covid-live-boris-johnson-to-lift-all-remaining-restrictions-in-england