The market for lockdown sceptics who are vocally pro-vaccine turns out to be very shallow

@ActuaryByDay @WanderingSadu @AlistairHaimes They haven't worked so far. 18 months in. Come on. We did what was asked, it turned out that mask mandates and lockdowns caused upticks. Lockdowns only delay it. Let's carry on as the brothers and sisters we were before this started

@ActuaryByDay @AlistairHaimes Necessity is in the eye of the beholder

@ActuaryByDay @AlistairHaimes Demonstrate that mandatory lockdowns work, then, and quantify their effect. Real-world evidence preferred over modelling-derived evidence.

@ActuaryByDay @AlistairHaimes Love all the replies from people being exactly what you've described here.

@ActuaryByDay @AlistairHaimes Some people just want to carry on as normal with no changes. It's a consistent position, however silly and irrational it is. Hardly shocking, just stupid

@ActuaryByDay @AlistairHaimes Yeah look at what happened when England dropped all of it’s measures. Total disaster

@ActuaryByDay @AlistairHaimes 18 months in, it still astounds me how many people are in favour of covid restrictions which might work, masks, scotch eggs etc…without demanding evidence and how many still think lockdowns were ever necessary without assessing the overall damage against benefit.

@ActuaryByDay @AlistairHaimes If there was evidence that measures work, and that the absence of said measures would prevent lockdowns "being necessary", then you might have a point. But there never is, and lockdowns are never necessary.

@ActuaryByDay @lilirishtravels Including the closure of all non-essential industries during lockdown so that the virus can be eliminated - and enforcing the strictest restrictions on entry apart from geographical regions (countries, counties) that have eliminated it. And removing all patents on the vaccines.