Am I missing something here? (re: reopening of bars, etc... now)

[Banksiaman]

@SayTwo

Well, your entire argument is based on premises that establish ‘necessity’ in unscientific ways and shroud them in science. And in pretty shoddy science at that, as you keep throwing around the term ‘high-risk activities’ without any evidence at all that blanket curfews address those. It should be very patently obvious that two people sitting together in a restaurant are doing nothing demonstrably ‘riskier’ than they would be sitting in a home together or out shopping.

That is simply bollocks.

On 7 Dec Gigobuster posted a link to study in Nature [again here] comparing the effectiveness of a large range of NPI [Non-pharmaceutical interventions]. Curfews - in the form of individual movement restrictions and more general lockdowns - rate very well. They say [a quote Gigobuster already used]:

The most effective NPIs include curfews, lockdowns and closing and restricting places where people gather in smaller or large numbers for an extended period of time. This includes small gathering cancellations (closures of shops, restaurants, gatherings of 50 persons or fewer, mandatory home working and so on) and closure of educational institutions.