r/science • u/umichnews • 2d ago

Psychology U-Michigan study finds most Americans prioritized preventing child abuse, domestic violence, and deaths linked to economic hardship over preventing additional COVID-19 deaths during lockdowns; researchers say these preferences highlight the need to balance disease prevention with other societal harm

https://news.umich.edu/americans-prioritized-preventing-lockdown-harms-over-covid-19-deaths/
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u/More-Dot346 2d ago

You can look at the per capita death, all cause and death from Covid comparing Sweden and Norway during Covid. Norway had tough lockdowns and Sweden very little. And the all cause mortality is basically the same, although Covid mortality was higher in Sweden.

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u/kanguhrus 1d ago

What conclusion can we draw from comparing the two countries’ responses?

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u/More-Dot346 1d ago edited 1d ago

Lockdown saved few lives but cost the world roughly $10 trillion, really sucked.

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u/ScentedFire 1d ago

Sweden's leaders admitted themselves that they should have locked down more because they did suffer effects from refusing to do so. Stop lying.

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u/DismalEconomics 1d ago

If a group of researchers were actually interested in studying the effects of lockdowns…

There are 195 countries on earth..

Which gives you 18,915 unique pairs of countries.

Imagine I have a potential sample size of 18,195 people…

But then I throw out 18,194 people, because I just want to focus 1 person ….

If I’m even mildly serious scientist , why in the f*** would I do this.

Now imagine I’m working for a think tank … now why do think I used such obviously BS study methods ?