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How so? If they achieved the same results as others on roughly the same timeline, yet with more deaths, how is that a successful strategy?


Because other countries implement lockdown. Lockdowns is not without cost.


We don't know the results yet. Numbers are going up in countries that are lifting their lockdown.


Lockdown has its own issues, economic and psychology / mental health.

Plus, some types of death are an economic boon because they:

a) cause economic churn and the associated fees, charges, and taxes

b) free up resources that were tied up with non-producers


"non-producer"? Oh, you mean human being.




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