Biden's death count will be higher than Trump's and he had vaccines available the whole time. And yes, the vaccine rollout wasn't full steam when Biden took office, but IIRC March was the month the vaccines really got out there at millions a day. Plus, the high-risk were given the vaccines 1st so deaths should've dropped sharply in comparison to 2020, but they didn't. An article from August 4 states that 90% of seniors were vaccinated along with 70% of adults, that's very big percentages, it's not like a majority isn't vaccinated. Who says the variant is more dangerous (as in more deadly)? All I ever heard is that it spreads better. Yes, that means it kills more faster obviously (with the same IFR) but well over 100 million Americans already had covid last year and you have those vaccination numbers too. I don't see how deaths could be the same or higher with all that immunity out there unless there's something we're not being told (especially about vaccine efficacy) because the logic doesn't make sense.Snip
There's no data lockdowns save more people or no data mask mandates do much of anything either (there's really no difference from states that masked and those that did not). There's article today about drug overdose deaths being up 22,000 last year. There's also lots of screenings that aren't happening because of covid for cancer and diabetes (as this article states). You also have kids missing school for a whole year, getting even worse food especially for low income kids leading to worse health outcomes later in life. Since the US has no public healthcare, probably thousands died either not going to the hospital or going too late due to fear of medical bills (from mass layoffs). You show me the cost-benefit analysis that shows lockdowns save more life and I'll be for lockdowns.
Here's a cost-benefit analysis from Canada showing:
“The benefit of lockdown, therefore, was the avoidance of this extra 22,333 years of lost life. However, the cost of lockdown… was 6,300,000 years of lost life.”
"Last spring, the New Zealand Productivity Commission — a Crown agency similar to Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer — did a study using a metric known as Quality Adjusted Life Years to weigh the advantages of extending one of their lockdowns, and found the long-term harms were almost 100 times greater than the benefits."
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