“Quaranternity” was only supposed to last two weeks.
When faced with overwhelming data that show lockdowns don’t work to stop the spread of COVID-19, the lockdown advocates’ fallback position is always something along the lines of, “well, they didn’t lock down hard enough!” Yet, even the most drawn out lockdowns in the world are not working whatsoever. The longest lockdown on record, which is approaching 200 days, isn’t stopping COVID-19. Instead, it is producing record numbers of new cases and deaths. It not only has failed spectacularly, it has had the additional side effect of bringing a nation to the brink of economic collapse.
Argentina is currently operating the world’s longest lockdown, which some Argentinians now refer to as “quaranternity.” On Monday, Argentina will hit the 200 days of lockdown milestone.
On March 16, Argentina completely closed its borders to the outside world, and three days later, Buenos Aires imposed a nation-wide, mandatory lockdown. In mid April, they imposed mandatory masking. The lockdown and its accompanying restrictions were only expected to last two weeks time, yet here we are, on day 198 of Argentina’s lockdown, which is scheduled to last until at least October 11. Given the government’s track record of continually extending restrictions (and promising to lift lockdowns, while at the last second, pulling the plug on those ideas), it seems that there’s little to no chance that the restrictions will actually end in a week’s time.
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