When they shut down all the small businesses and just left the big box stores open, they ended up concentrating all the shoppers together in a few big centralized locations, turning them into daily super-spreader events.
Now they're imposing curfews, as if that will somehow limit people's exposure to each other by keeping them at home more I guess?
Well here's the thing: Bars and restaurants are already closed. The only thing people are going out at night for is logistical activities like shopping - things they have to do every day regardless of curfews.
So all a curfew will accomplish is to shorten the available hours people have to carry out those logistical activities (like shopping), which will concentrate everyone into the stores during the remaining hours, which will increase social contact/exposure, not reduce it.
So like the small business shutdowns, this measure can only make things worse.
I don't believe for one second that there's any modeling that pointed to this being a good idea, because it defies logic on the face of it. At this point it's painfully obvious that governments are just taking drastic actions so they can be seen to be "doing something". And worse, there's no exit strategy. Nothing they're doing is working. None of these measures will bring an end to the pandemic (indeed they'll only make it worse), so where's the light at the end of the tunnel here? Is there one? Or is this the "new normal"?
Oh and they still don't know if the vaccines work on the new strains yet BTW.
Another paper that just came out concluding stricter measures have no benefits: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484
It was never about containing a virus, it was always about population control and leading us into communism.
If less restrictive interventions are the way, the Sweden would be in a good place right now. But the opposite is the case.
where did you read about sweden is not doing fine, a blog? Have you personally been to Sweden and seen the reality? what about Belarus?
It seems Sweden was doing fine until they lost to pressure from the IMF and globalist institutions and were forced into locked down by their politicians, not their epidemiologists. I think you're just a little behind on what the media tactics have been to convince the population into believing things that aren't reality.
Sweden is just one of the well known ones that didn't put in measures. There are a handful of countries that I know of you've probably never even heard about that either have no measures or are very laxed compared to what we are going through and are doing much better managing the "pandemic". The articles and data I gave you prove it.
Did you see the recent numbers?
They just passed a law to make lockdowns legal:
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-swedens-new-covid-lockdown-law-takes-effect/a-56185101
If they would do great, they wouldn't need lockdowns.
You're wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo