Sweden's chief epidemiologist back-pedals on decision to not shutdown

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Your lockdown argument is not supported by historical facts because you don't have any facts showing wide work stoppages. As I said you pointed out some anecdotal evidence about limited shutdowns.

You are now trying to argue they would have shutdown if they had been more interconnected.
Maybe, maybe not.

But, the point is you are bullshitting when you say your lockdown is supported by history.

By the way I am all for the shutdown of international travel. Trump should have done more but he got ripped by the left for doing what he did do.

Ask the FED about whether this shutdown has to end and whether the lockdown has caused massive amounts to not work...
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For instance 55% of L.A. is unemployed...

https://www.businessinsider.com/mor...-workers-unemployed-due-to-coronavirus-2020-4

As noted in the all the sources - during the 1918 flu and 1940/1950 polio epidemic - it was not an era of global travel in fast planes and autos that spreads a disease globally much more quickly. Due to this lockdowns were invariably local by city/town/region in the U.S. when the disease was present in the community-- they also included restrictions that people could not leave or enter the city/town/region under quarantine by road or rail-- only goods were let in & out.

As a side point - Are roads, railroads, and planes restricted today? Are you not allowed to travel in or out of places with COVID in the U.S. Well back in the 1918 and 1940s/1950s they were. You weren't leaving your infected town to go somewhere else.

The records I provided are not anecdotal -- it listed restrictions by city with start/stop dates for measures when doing comparisons and then provided information on the results for the 1918 flu.

For the 1918 flu (as noted in the records) there were times were over 70% of the U.S. was under some type of lockdown or quarantine at the same time. There was no federal coordination of the lockdown since the Feds were too busy trying to hide that the U.S. has a flu problem while trying not to look weak in WW1.

You have a hard case claiming that the U.S. today today has a "nationwide job shutdown". First of all there are 7 states that are not locked down. Also over 30% of workers in every state in the U.S. are considered essential and are not restricted from working.