No its not, simply compare other counties action and numbers as this man did. Look at Sweden and Norway, 2 different approaches and the one who locked down (Sweden) had the same outcome as Norway - which simply used SD and other precautions with no lockdown. Or maybe I have the 2 mixed up but the bottom line is same.
Nope. A lot more science goes into that. Population density (one has about 24 people per sq Km, the other about 15 for example), mobility of said population, demographics of the population, testing rates per capita etc...without comparing ALL of that it's anecdotal. I didn't read enough to see if he did that comparison and corrected for it. Did he? You also have to look at what voluntary precautions the populations were undertaking (dine in might not have been closed but did people stop going out to eat?). Was one population more cautious than the other naturally, without government edict?
It would really require an exhaustive, thorough, scientific, and peer reviewed study...or a time machine.
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