{"id":27632,"date":"2020-05-05T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27632"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:28:45","slug":"australia-a-standout-loser-for-damaging-economy-without-covid-19-immunity-nobel-prize-winner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27632","title":{"rendered":"Australia a \u2018standout loser\u2019 for damaging economy without COVID-19 immunity, Nobel prize-winner says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Opera_House.jpg\" alt=\"Opera House\" class=\"wp-image-27633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Opera_House.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Opera_House-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the world\u2019s top scientists has branded lockdowns a \u201chuge mistake\u201d and called Australia a \u201cstandout loser\u201d for \u201cmassively\u201d damaging its economy and society without obtaining immunity to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an extraordinary 30-minute interview Michael Levitt, who won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013, also slammed Baby Boomers for \u201creally screwing up\u201d the world. \u201cIf I was a young person now I would say, you guys are going to pay for this,\u201d said Professor Levitt, 72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor of structural biology at Stanford University, he said \u201cpanic\u201d stemming from \u201cincorrect numbers\u201d had prompted lockdowns whose damage \u201cwill exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor \u2013 there is no doubt in my mind\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uploaded to UK website Unheard overnight, the professor said Germany and Sweden, with deaths so far per million from COVID-19 of 81 and 264, respectively, were \u201cstandout winners\u201d in their response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/economics\/australia-a-standout-loser-for-damaging-economy-without-immunity-nobel-prizewinner-says\/news-story\/82afa2981f9fb827c439330da3d82e5d\">https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/economics\/australia-a-standout-loser-for-damaging-economy-without-immunity-nobel-prizewinner-says\/news-story\/82afa2981f9fb827c439330da3d82e5d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s top scientists has branded lockdowns a \u201chuge mistake\u201d and called Australia a \u201cstandout loser\u201d for \u201cmassively\u201d damaging its economy and society without obtaining immunity to COVID-19. In an extraordinary 30-minute interview Michael Levitt, who won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013, also slammed Baby Boomers for \u201creally screwing up\u201d the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australia a \u2018standout loser\u2019 for damaging economy without COVID-19 immunity, Nobel prize-winner says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27634,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions\/27634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}