Meta-analysis Of Covid Lockdowns Prove You Can’t Fix Stupid
Who came up with the idea of locking down society as a response to Covid-19? We never locked down healthy people for a respiratory virus in history. Occasionally, some schools were closed with an influenza outbreak, but we had never quarantined healthy people before.
Now a meta-analysis of 24 studies proves the point. Of course, doctors and scientists were shouting from the rooftops for at least 18 months that the lockdown strategy was terrible policy.
Here is what researchers found:
"Lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average… lockdowns have had little to no public health effects."
If you translate that for the U.S., with 891,485 deaths, there were 178 lives saved which is negligible for a country of over 300 million. But what did the shutdowns cost? For Australia, with 3904 deaths, lockdowns saved .78 people, less than one person.
Remember that the Great Barrington Declaration originated on October 4, 2020. Currently, there are one million doctors who have signed the declaration. Look at what it states:
"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the general COVID-19 policies and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. Coming from both the left and right and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health."
Instead of health authorities and politicians listening to these doctors, they were ridiculed and dismissed on social and mainstream media. When we consider the consequence of lockdowns, they cost many lives. The following detrimental effects counteract the minuscule saving from Covid:
increase in suicides
drug overdoses
increase alcoholism
reduction of I.Q. in children
increase in cancer deaths
increase in domestic violence
loss of family income
increase in poverty
Perhaps the most devastating long term impact of the lockdowns is society's programming into a perpetual fear of a virus. This programming is subtle. When you're locked indoors, what can you do? Watch more Netflix or Amazon Prime, purchase more "things" online to satisfy addictions?
So the next time any new pathogen arrives, it will instil fear and psychosis in a large percentage of the population. But at the same time, we can alleviate that stress by engaging in these at-home activities. We're not productive, but we satisfy our needs. Staying at home plays right into the hands of big tech.
What's frightening is that the governments buy into this lockdown mentality. Even the WHO is now recommending the elimination of these draconian mandates.
As we said, you can't fix stupid.