It is not certain. Not even close to certain. Infection rates are unknown and you're going to have to wait for the NIH seroprevalence study to come out to prove this unequivocally but it is demonstrable in several seroprevalence studies which have already been conducted that this is the case. However, I would tend to agree that lockdowns have had a very slight positive effect on the reproductive rate, as I have all along.
No, the figure you have repeatedly posted has nothing to do with the reproductive rate. Any inference that can be made in regard to the reproductive rate based on it is completely unscientific.
You keep declaring this, but it's simply fasle, as I have repeatedly demonstrated. They don't even have a final death count.
"Look how many deaths have been counted, the R0 is down" is what you're literally saying and it is quite retarded.
You haven't demonstrated anything. The only valid data coming from the early days of this epidemic are death counts. Testing has been completely under scoped and has only been used as a diagnostic tool. R0 was clearly reduced when lockdowns were implemented. This is shown quite clearly on the figure posted below.
I keep asking you to post something convincing instead of simply playing a game of rope-a-dope. You've failed to post anything convincing. I think the Swedish strategy is horrible and won't work in the US. We are nowhere near 70% immunity and neither are they. "Weeks away from herd immunity" when the cost of that is in human lives? Lockdowns clearly are working and I've also posted reasons why lockdowns are not nearly as harmful to society than as you advise, letting the epidemic ravage a community.
There are always people who can't ever get it right. It's not that they/you are stupid, it's just that the facts get in the way with how they/you want the world to be.
Lockdowns work. Letting epidemics ravage communities is more harmful. The benefits from these lockdowns are soon to be realized when we begin to open up with testing, contact tracing and quarantine protocols in place. I've presented plenty of evidence and studies to back up what I've said.
Now then, the Phillippines. Very low rates of infection going on. Why is that?