How do you define a “true lockdown”? Welded shut in a Wuhan apartment building? Self-declaration forms to go shopping in Paris or Milan? Locking children out of school for 1.5 years in Richmond? https://t.co/6qVRDesI0H

— Anthony LaMesa (@ajlamesa) April 3, 2022

I’ve gotten in this argument with people before. Some define “lockdown” as “you die in your apartment because you can’t get food” as the only true lockdown. Some define it as “you can only go out once a day.” Some define it as “you can only go out once a week for an hour.” I think any significant restriction where most places are closed counts as lockdown and most of the US did experience that. Most of the UK did for 9 months or longer. Lockdown only works well in certain narrow circumstances, though. It’s not magic and it’s not a long-term solution.

I hope the "we could have just locked down hard for two weeks and eliminated this thing" people are looking at what's happening in Shanghai.

— Anthony LaMesa (@ajlamesa) April 2, 2022

Exactly.