Lockdowns do work. That was proved first by New Zealand and then by Australia.

But they don't guarantee an instant drop in cases. The reason the Covid infection is so hard to fight is it takes a relatively long time for symptoms to occur. So an increase in cases detected between 2 and 11 days after the lockdown starts is hardly surprising, and tells us very little about the efficacy of the lockdown.

The worst case scenario is that it merely helps Britain flatten the curve. But more likely there will be a significant drop in the infection rate.

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individual,
>So, what does work or is better than lock-downs ?

Mass testing. Had the world given absolute priority to production of testing kits, Covid19 could've been eliminated in a few months.

In the UK, the emotive advertising of an 'even worse strain' of the virus that has arrived is being questioned by top scientists, who say it is too early to tell if there is a new strain or not. Even though the scaremongering media has punched out images of wild looking people, staring out from behind oxygen masks and miles of tubes to make the claim look more realistic.

There is supposed to be a 30% higher risk with this one - or is it 50% or 70%. There are so many different numbers being thrown around by 'experts'. Perhaps they are all just poor liars who don't get together enough to sync their lies. And, they are now doing their Scary Mary bit in advance, saying that vaccines might not be as effective on this 'new strain'; when it's too early to know if they are effective on the 'old strain'.

The 'new strain' has now reached Australia, according Scare News, in some tennis dogsbodies (not players) from overseas.

Victoria, mad lockdown regime, 820 deaths in pop. 6.3 million.

NSW, much more circumspect, 54 deaths in pop. 7.5 million.

Just a by-the-buy: 115 businesses went into receivership in one month, thanks to Victorian DD's 111 days of China virus lockdowns.

The latest indicator that lockdowns have been nothing more than an instrument of political control comes from America where, since the installation of Joe Biden as President, the Democrat city mayors have started saying that lockdowns are not necessary and should be removed for the sake of business and the economy! Amazing, coming from the biggest advocates of lockdowns when Donald Trump was President. And, as we are constantly told by our US obsessive, the China virus has not improved in that country.

Covid19 could've been eliminated in a few months.
Aidan,
Maybe but had people not done so much insane willy nilly travel it could possibly have been prevented in the first place.