'Lockdowns arguably make sense as an emergency measure - but they offer no exit strategy,' writes DanielJHannan
Lockdowns arguably make sense as an emergency measure, a way to buy time and build capacity. But they are no answer to an endemic virus. They are the bluntest and most destructive of instruments. They offer no exit strategy. And, surveying the data from around the world, there is precious little evidence that they work.
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