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Lockdowns didn't work in Hawaii. The border closures did. Nothing else did. That's the effect the study is finding. They didn't say lockdowns worked in Hawaii. If they worked in Hawaii they would have worked everywhere else too. It was the isolation from the outside that only an island is able to achieve.
The lower R value and as a result the lower mortality rate was purely a combination of the test or quarantine regime, combined with other environmental and societal differences.
As for teachers not wanting to die of COVID. It was known since fall 2020 that schools were not a major vector of COVID-19 spread like was originally feared. It did indeed spread there, just not very much comparatively. Closing schools before then was forgivable, but after that it was incredibly selfish and destructive to society to do so.
If you haven't changed your mind on this yet, you will in the coming years. No doubt people will realize this was the biggest mistake in pandemic policy period.
I also find it hilarious that it seems socially acceptable to go out sick as long as you have a mask, given that they don't work. Nice work those public health officials did here. I guess it all seems like a white lie to them that there's no good evidence they worked. Staying home when you're sick is literally the only truly effective way to not spread such a virus.
Remember, droplets are not the same as aerosols. So much for those mechanistic studies.
Lockdowns didn't work in Hawaii. The border closures did. Nothing else did. That's the effect the study is finding. They didn't say lockdowns worked in Hawaii. If they worked in Hawaii they would have worked everywhere else too. It was the isolation from the outside that only an island is able to achieve.
The lower R value and as a result the lower mortality rate was purely a combination of the test or quarantine regime, combined with other environmental and societal differences.
As for teachers not wanting to die of COVID. It was known since fall 2020 that schools were not a major vector of COVID-19 spread like was originally feared. It did indeed spread there, just not very much comparatively. Closing schools before then was forgivable, but after that it was incredibly selfish and destructive to society to do so.
If you haven't changed your mind on this yet, you will in the coming years. No doubt people will realize this was the biggest mistake in pandemic policy period.
I also find it hilarious that it seems socially acceptable to go out sick as long as you have a mask, given that they don't work. Nice work those public health officials did here. I guess it all seems like a white lie to them that there's no good evidence they worked. Staying home when you're sick is literally the only truly effective way to not spread such a virus.
Remember, droplets are not the same as aerosols. So much for those mechanistic studies.