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Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, writing in the Telegraph, argue that “Lockdown proponents can’t escape the blame for the biggest public health fiasco in history (sai lầm chính sách y tế công lớn nhất trong lịch sử).” A slice:

A year ago, there was no evidence that lockdowns would protect older high-risk people from Covid-19. Now there is evidence. They did not.

With so many Covid-19 deaths, it is obvious that lockdown strategies failed to protect the old. Holding the naïve belief (niềm tin ngây thơ) that shutting down society would protect everyone, governments and scientists rejected basic focused protection measures for the elderly. While anyone can get infected, there is more than a thousand-fold difference in the risk of death between the old and the young. The failure to exploit this fact about the virus led to the biggest public health fiasco in history.

Lockdowns have, nevertheless, generated enormous collateral damage across all ages. Depriving children of in-person teaching (lấy mất của trẻ em cơ hội được tới trường) has hurt (tác động xấu) not only their education but also their physical and mental health (sức khỏe thể chất và tinh thần). Other public health consequences include missed cancer screenings (tầm soát ung thư) and treatments and worse cardiovascular disease (bệnh tim mạch) outcomes. Much of this damage will unfold over time and is something we must live with – and die with – for many years to come.

The blame game for this fiasco is now in full swing. Some scientists, politicians, and journalists are complaining that people did not comply with the rules sufficiently. But blaming the public is disingenuous. Never in human history has the population sacrificed so much to comply with public health mandates.

Strangely, lockdown proponents are also trying to blame the scientists who opposed lockdown measures. Though she has repeatedly argued for better protection of the elderly, with specific suggestions that could have saved many lives, Oxford professor Sunetra Gupta, one of the world’s pre-eminent infectious disease epidemiologists, has been attacked with particular viciousness.

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