In a new paper, the economist Douglas Allen reviews the literature on the costs and benefits of lockdown. He concludes that the costs of Canada's lockdown far outweighed the benefits.
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Lockdown proponents often argue that case numbers always go down after a lockdown is imposed. However, there are several countries where a lockdown was imposed, but case numbers did not immediately decline.
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"Boris does seem to need the approval of his peers in Whitehall and is a great appeaser," says Dr Timothy Bradshaw. "He caves in everywhere, at the expense of ordinary people on behalf of massive corporations."
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Sweden's low excess mortality in 2020 undermines the pro-lockdown case. Defenders often counter that Sweden fared badly compared to its neighbours. There are several reasons why this is a bad argument, says Dr Noah Carl.
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Academics who produce models predicting doom for places which don't lock down should be challenged to hindcast for states which stay open. If they can't get the past right, why should we trust them for the future?
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who kept his state open all winter, has given a new interview where he talks of his regret in locking down and the challenges he faced reopening in the face of fierce opposition.
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Sweden's Professor Johan Giesecke was back talking with Freddie Sayers yesterday, one year on. One of the first major figures to oppose lockdowns, he is unbowed: "I think I got most things right, actually."
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The argument for lockdowns made a clear prediction concerning what would happen in Sweden. But that prediction was wrong. Up to week 51, the country saw age-adjusted excess mortality of just 1.7%, below the EU average.
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The drop in Covid cases has been caused by Britain's "exemplar vaccine programme", says King's College London epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector – despite the Prime Minister saying that lockdown is behind the fall.
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Many people struggle to accept that lockdowns don't have any impact on Covid outbreaks. After all, isn't it obvious that keeping people apart stops the spread? Here are seven peer-reviewed studies that say no, it's not.
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