You’re reading them wrong, that’s why. Try reading it in context of national lockdowns and it’ll mKe more sense.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484
Chinese-style lockdowns are not shown to be that effective.
That study only looks at two of many factors that would contribute to what we would call a ‘lockdown’
Other studies found the effectiveness of lockdowns to be significant.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220322700
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.28.20116129v4.full.pdf
But the proof is in the pudding. You can literally see where countries have locked down by simply looking at the covid infections and death rate graphs.
What you gave me is an older paper from fucking china. Of course chinks will promote their policies or they become unwilling organ donors. Also, that's part of the issue: the world implemented the CCP policies to fight a meme virus.
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