Already by early- and mid-2020, hard data should have rung alarm bells on the doomsday narrative being peddled by modelers like Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London of catastrophic mortality counts without lockdown.
Data were readily available from the Diamond Princess cruise ship (712 of 3,711 elderly people on board were infected and 14 died), Sweden, the USS Theodore Roosevelt (736 of the 4,085 young and fit sailors who disembarked tested positive, 6 were hospitalised and 1 died) and the Charles de Gaulle (60 percent of 1,767 crew members tested positive, 24 were admitted to hospital and two to ICU, with no reported deaths)
Why then did the so-called health and infectious diseases experts keep calling for lockdown?
An on-going series by Ramesh Thakur.