Lock Downs

What They're Saying	What the Science Says
We need just 15 days of lock down to "flatten the curve" so that hospitals don't get overwhelmed. That was many months ago, with no discernable benefit. In fact, many facilities stayed nearly empty and a large number of health care workers lost their jobs.	Lock downs will not reduce the overall effect of the virus, only prolong it. Once the lock down ends, the infection rates would rise again because you did nothing to build up immunity in your population. In fact, you have probably weakened people's immune systems. The better plan, they said, was to protect the vulnerable while allowing everyone else to create a "herd immunity" which would subsequently protect the vulnerable. See Sweden's strategy and results.

What They're Saying

What the Science Says

We need just 15 days of lock down to "flatten the curve" so that hospitals don't get overwhelmed. That was many months ago, with no discernable benefit. In fact, many facilities stayed nearly empty and a large number of health care workers lost their jobs.

Lock downs will not reduce the overall effect of the virus, only prolong it. Once the lock down ends, the infection rates would rise again because you did nothing to build up immunity in your population. In fact, you have probably weakened people's immune systems.

The better plan, they said, was to protect the vulnerable while allowing everyone else to create a "herd immunity" which would subsequently protect the vulnerable. See Sweden's strategy and results.

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