Originally Posted by
ayearinmx
here's quite a nice little sound-bite i read earlier this year and has now become relevant again tonight:
"if lockdowns didn't work before, why should they now? And if lockdowns DID work, why do we need another one then?
Totally fallacious logic. They
did work (as measured by falling infections levels) and that’s why they are being done again, it’s just that for good or ill, in Europe we didn’t decide to pursue the approach to its conclusion as seen in NZ.
I presume you’d only boil a kettle once in your life? “If boiling the kettle DID work this morning, then why is the water cold this evening, if it didn’t work, then why do I need to boil it again to make a cup of tea”...