Merkel asks for "8 to 10 weeks of severe measures." Escalates lockdown. While WHO advises against lockdowns. While a meta study by John Ioannidis finds lockdowns not working. There was a time when we didn't know. Now it's all power, no reason.
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Replying to @febeling
“[A]s the pandemic enters its deadliest phase, Ioannidis is losing the argument over how to combat covid-19. Among epidemiologists, consensus now exists that it was inaction, not overreaction, that helped create the worst public health crisis in a century” washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…

Jan 12, 2021 · 6:03 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
There is no consensus among experts, evidently. And the article doesn't backup the above claim with anything, as far as I can tell. It does try hard to make it a Trump thing to even discuss the topic, though. I refuse to follow that model of discourse.