The harm done by lockdown will last for decades – spiked
Lockdowns don t really help in care homes or with hospital-acquired infections. Care homes and hospitals make up a big chunk of the caseload. The thinking is that lockdowns reduce the risk among young people and that this will aid the wider population. But if you build up immunity among the young, you get a better barrier against the spread of the virus through the rest of society.
Flattening the curve just slows down the transmission rate of the virus. It does not affect the overall attack rate. That means we have just prolonged the pandemic.
spiked: What about the collateral damage of lockdowns?
Heneghan: The collateral damage will start to emerge over the next two to five years. Clinically speaking, that is what has happened in previous pandemics like the Ebola crisis it caused an upsurge in measles two years later, because it disrupted vaccination programmes.
Lockdowns certainly appear stupid and they seem completely ineffective as well. However as I follow the lead of my physician-wife in all matters medical and the great state of Californeyeay as well, I expect to be well masked up this fall.
We just came back from a brief vacation to the great state of Utah, where in Park City at least, there were few masks in evidence. At the airports, it felt like the middle of the pandemic. I hate wearing the damn things.