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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: Wake-up! on March 18, 2021, 08:57:17 AM

Title: Covid Heresy
Post by: Wake-up! on March 18, 2021, 08:57:17 AM
He [Scott Atlas] reviewed all the key points from the past year.

First, in order to explain away the clear failures of lockdowns and other alleged mitigation measures, the lockdowners have tried to pretend that Americans weren't really all that locked down after all, and that in any case Americans didn't really change their behavior all that much.

Atlas threw cold water on both of those claims:

Here's the unacknowledged reality: almost all states and major cities, with a handful of exceptions, have implemented severe restrictions for many months, including closures of businesses and in-person school, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates dating back to at least the summer.

And let's clear up the myths about the behavior of Americans – social mobility tracking of Americans and data from Gallup, YouGov, the COVID-19 Consortium, and the CDC have shown significant reductions of movement as well as a consistently high percentage of mask wearing since the late summer, similar to Western European countries and approaching those in Asia.

The rest of Tom Woods' commetary is here;  https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/03/thomas-woods/793554-2/

[Just facts, not conspiracy.]