The Cochrane review? It found that they couldn't be sure either way for widespread mask mandates (not masking itself; that wasn't controversial. The mask mandate element was to cover such things as l… (View Post)

One element that isn't considered is that the higher the background level of cases, the faster and more likelihood the virus evolves. Every infection is an opportunity to evolve; each one is very ver… (View Post)

No, we're talking about Covid. IFR in the pre-vaccine era can now be seen to have been c. 1.0% - 1.3% thanks to the ONS Infections survey. Hospitalisation rates were c. 5% in that time as well. We do… (View Post)

One very strong memory I have from the week before first lockdown, on the Monday night, I was overnighting at work. I knew it'd be the last time for quite a while (the following day, we were official… (View Post)

And this is where my personal bugbear comes in - I spent a lot of time in mid-to-late 2020 banging on about "identifying the low-hanging fruit" - the measures that had the most bang (reduct… (View Post)