Johan Giesecke – Does lockdown really decrease Covid deaths? The UK experience suggests not

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It's looks like I'm a gonna, if everyone is going to catch it. It's interesting how some people don't even know they have it because they don't get any symptoms.It has become clear that a hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes – a population the lockdown was designed to protect. Neither does it decrease mortality from Covid-19, which is evident when comparing the UK's experience with that of other European countries. PCR testing and some straightforward assumptions indicate that, as of April 29, 2020, more than half a million people in Stockholm county, Sweden (which is about 20–25 per cent of the region’s population) have been infected. 98 to 99 per cent of these people are probably unaware or uncertain of having had the infection; they either had

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