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Originally Posted by Pierre
Will it change my mind? ……… well no……,sorry but no.
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Unsurprisingly. Scientific evidence dismissed with your fingers in your ears not listening because you disagree on an ideological level. No attempts to offer any critical analysis, nor any critical thinking as a result of the paper you presumably read the hyperlink, the title and dismissed out of hand.
Perhaps if you could provide an exhaustive list of economic journals you consider credible, or academics within that field then I could narrow my search. The Spectator and Toby Young don’t count.
Fundamentally your starting point is do they back up what you want to hear - lockdowns and state intervention bad, freedom good, etc. You’ve admitted you will never diverge from this point regardless.
If the emergence of vaccines cannot shift you to a position where some non-pharmaceutical interventions (e.g. masks, distancing) are valid until the end of the vaccination programme then nothing will.
Not a single country in the world has approached Covid in the manner you suggest. No rational capitalists out there seeking to seize the edge on all of their competitors. Simply because it doesn’t deliver the outcomes you envisage.