Quote Originally Posted by Eternal Optimist View Post
If they stopped the spread of Covid, how come there were 19,801,296 cases recorded over the same period?
Er, because there was still limited contact?

I haven't looked recently, but shop and public transport workers were particularly hard hit by the early waves of covid. That reflects the nature of their work, which involved relatively high levels of contact (but may also reflect them generally being relatively low paid, which can be a factor in poor general health).

But if you actually believe that reducing contact between people would not reduce the spread of a primarily airborne infection, how do you explain the plateauing and then fall of numbers during lockdown and then their rise when restrictions were lifted?

Or are you a germ theory denier?