I wonder if confining people to their homes might actually augment spread?

...said apparently no one in charge.

Here’s the link to the tweet itself from April 2020, part of a list of 15 reasons lockdowns were never common sense…

Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi

13. Lockdowns confine people together, and nearly all infections happen in such situations, not from grocery stores, restaurants, parks, etc. The mean reproduction number in such situations can be much higher.

..and, really, it dovetails with #14…

Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi

14. Members of extended families tend to interact even during lockdowns. But because extended families overlap other extended families in a network, infection continues to spread. This could mean lockdowns worsened things. Common sense doesn’t tell us whether it’s faster or not.