Were lockdowns a mistake? To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes.
Certainly,
they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never
before responded to a contagion by closing down whole countries.” As
I’ve noted, the 1957-58 Asian flu killed between 70,000 and 116,000
Americans, between 0.04 percent and 0.07 percent of the nation’s
population. The 1968-70 Hong Kong flu killed about 100,000, 0.05 percent
of the population.
The US coronavirus death toll of 186,000 is
0.055 percent of the current population. It will go higher, but it’s
about the same magnitude as those two flus, and it has been less deadly
to those under 65 than the flus were. Yet there were no statewide
lockdowns; no massive school closings; no closings of office buildings and factories, restaurants and museums. No one considered shutting down Woodstock.
Why are attitudes so different today? READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2020/09/06/its-now-looking-like-the-lockdowns-may-have-been-a-huge-mistake/
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