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Interesting piece on costs of UK lockdown versus costs of easing it 09:52 - May 5 with 626 views

https://unherd.com/2020/05/is-the-lockdown-doing-more-harm-than-good/

Short version: So comparing the QALYs lost to the lockdown (which you don’t know) to the QALYs lost to the virus (which you also don’t know) is extremely difficult.

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Interesting piece on costs of UK lockdown versus costs of easing it on 09:58 - May 5 with 603 views

ElephantintheRoom

Well yes... a more interesting comparison would be between the cost of not adequately funding your healthcare system (so you can give out miniscule tax cuts) and the resultant cost of reacting far too late when an unfortunate pandemic arrives to shine a searchlight on your catastrophically misguided policies.

I'm not sure there has ever been any argument against the futility of putting in place a partial voluntary lockdown three weeks too late.

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Interesting piece on costs of UK lockdown versus costs of easing it on 11:46 - May 5 with 515 views

C_HealyIsAPleasure

Re your summary - indeed

Also to add that the big mistake a lot of people seem to be making when comparing the cost is basing the comparison against the number of COVID deaths which are happening in lockdown, rather than whatever the number and difference would be if we weren’t in lockdown (which is impossible to know although clearly there are some very clever people out there who can and have modelled various scenarios)

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