How well did this age?

[LuFins Dad]

https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/59/ranking-the-state-governors-on-covid-19-response

[Jolly]

Not well.

What did that latest study show? That all the lockdowns only decreased the death rate by 0.2%, IIRC.

I'm not sure if that's entirely true. I do think something had to be done to flatten the curve enough to not overwhelm the medical sector. I don't know if we're far enough along with our COVID response to do an effective analysis on what we did, but some things are pretty evident...

1. Protect the most vulnerable first.
2. In a large economy, some production should never be off-shored. We need to decide what.
3. In many cases, we had beds, but not staff or supplies. We need to do better.
4. When the government did provide field hospitals or ships, they were vastly underutilized. Why?
5. When trying to slow down a pandemic, maybe open borders are not a good idea.
6. You can't continue to pump fiat money into an economy and not expect inflation.
7. Remote learning does not work well for education.
8. Emergency powers granted to the government should be fleeting and automatically revocable.

That's just a few off the top of my head...

[89th]

Very good list. Especially the first bullet.

76% of all COVID deaths were ages 65+.
93% were ages 50+.

Heck, only 3% were from ages 40 or younger.

[Jolly]

A blog post on the JH study...

https://victorygirlsblog.com/johns-hopkins-study-lockdowns-are-a-failure/