[2006alum]

Please don't attack the messenger.  Attack the science if you want to attack.  I did not research the author or the "Principa-Scientific" website.  I thought it was an interesting study of the Covid-19 data.

Everyone exercises discretion in what they post in this forum, so I do think it's a reasonable burden on the poster to determine whether a claim as bold as "Israeli Study Reveals COVID19 Lockdown Was Pointless" has any validity at all before posting. And all the more so when it confirms the poster's previously established motivated reasoning. But whatever - at this point there's a pretty established record of non-engagement with facts that don't fit the preferred worldview.

PS: I have no idea what his underlying data is, but the claim that number of infections peak in week 6 is so demonstrably contradicted by Japan's case that I don't see any point in engaging with the rest of it:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/inkcanada/status/1250819797543202819?s=20[/tweet]
It's been three months since Japan's first case and they just set matched their all-time high for daily infections reported.

Indeed, unfortunately many countries are experiencing new near-highs months after their first reported cases:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/Lstedmanbryce/status/1240310146087124992?s=20[/tweet]

[2006alum]

Please don't attack the messenger.  Attack the science if you want to attack.  I did not research the author or the "Principa-Scientific" website.  I thought it was an interesting study of the Covid-19 data.

Everyone exercises discretion in what they post in this forum, so I do think it's a reasonable burden on the poster to determine whether a claim as bold as "Israeli Study Reveals COVID19 Lockdown Was Pointless" has any validity at all before posting. And all the more so when it confirms the poster's previously established motivated reasoning. But whatever - at this point there's a pretty established record of non-engagement with facts that don't fit the preferred worldview.

PS: I have no idea what his underlying data is, but the claim that number of infections peak in week 6 is so demonstrably contradicted by Japan's case that I don't see any point in engaging with the rest of it:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/inkcanada/status/1250819797543202819?s=20[/tweet]
It's been three months since Japan's first case and they just set matched their all-time high for daily infections reported.

Indeed, unfortunately many countries are experiencing new near-highs months after their first reported cases:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/Lstedmanbryce/status/1240310146087124992?s=20[/tweet]