The Right is spreading A NEW STUDY FROM STANFORD around the place. That link goes to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, "Poppin' Fresh" as he's affectionately known when he is not in agreement with the Right consensus.
Wow. If even the librul DEMONRATS at Stanford are saying it, it must be true! REOPEN NAO
... if we ignore the last name on that New Study's author-list. It's John Ioannidis. You'll remember him from earlier New Studies last year when he was spreading the Just A Flu Bro assurances and getting his predictions totally, completely wrong. He is still wrong.
Ioannidis shouldn't be allowed within a parsec of this line of academe. Anyone citing him is a sucker. His coauthors are all so many Jonathan Chaits beside Stephen Glass.
As for the "lockdowns", start with what they aim to do: to get the people to do the right thing. Doing the right thing - voluntarily - should be to move activities out of doors, and to wear masks where that's not possible. Restrictions don't work when people don't follow them; masks don't work when people don't wear them, or when they wear bad masks wrongly without distancing.
It is because we have bad citizens that we must bear authoritarian rulers. Where men cannot support civilisation, civilisation must be provided for them. Up to and including stealing elections from them.
Beyond that, if need be - hence, lockdowns. Fortunately Conservatives (what is left of them) are stupid lunatics so, in a fight with better men, will lose.
IDW 1/18: On to muh classical liberals Eric Weinstein is not covering himself in glory, either. You want people to call you alt-right, beyond the pale? Keep pandering to antivaxx.
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