Predictably, you've provided no reasonable counterargument against social distancing as a means to reduce Covid-19's rate of infection. This isn't just a science issue -- it's a common sense issue, which is why it's important to underscore this disingenuously flawed reasoning.Lol, another leftist scammer spamming the word "science", like virtually everything in science isn't disputed. I hear there were these people called the Nazis who had TONS of really smart scientists. Since you insist on the world being run as a tyrannical technocracy, why aren't you calling these guys up? They have TONS of scientific advice to share with you.
The mark of intelligence is one's ability to separate emotion from analysis. Your pattern is to discuss each topic in a vindictive emotional manner, via ad hominum attacks and association fallacies, and thus many of your positions have an inherently weak foundation (i.e. anti-science gibberish vs. social distancing strategy). This is why you resort to personal attacks in nearly every one of your posts, because your full intention is to provoke an emotional response from your opponent in an attempt to distract them away from analysis.
COVID-19 study links strict social distancing to much lower chance of infection:
Efforts to prevent COVID-19 led to global decline in flu:They found, for example, that those reporting frequent public transport use were more than four times as likely to report a history of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection, while those who reported practicing strict outdoor social distancing were just a tenth as likely to report ever being SARS-CoV-2 positive.
Results showed that the percentage of respiratory specimens that tested positive for influenza dropped from more than 20% to 2.3%
COVID-19 gains lost after social distancing measures relaxed:
According to the study, they used segmented linear regression to estimate the extent to which social distancing relaxation affected epidemic control, as indicated by the time-varying, state-specific effective reproduction number (Rt). The study demonstrated that in the 8 weeks before social distancing relaxation, mean Rt declined by 0.012 units per day. After relaxation of social distancing, Rt reversed course and began increasing by 0.007 units per day.
Model: US could see another 200K COVID-19 deaths by 2021:
The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) currently projects more than 375,000 total U.S. deaths from COVID-19 by Dec. 31. However, a model that “assumes that the gradual easing of social distancing mandates continues” shows the number of deaths could surpass 437,000 by the end of the year.
COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdown: response time is more important than its strictness:
Countries that enforced a very strict lockdown could have obtained similar mortality figures with less stringent mobility restrictions as long as social distancing is initiated as early as possible after the first incidents are recorded. As a direct consequence, the socioeconomic damage of a strict lockdown could have been less severe.
For vampire bats, social distancing while sick comes naturally:
In the wild, vampire bats -- which are highly social animals -- keep their distance when they're sick or living with sick groupmates. And it can be expected that they reduce the spread of disease as a result.