The human costs of lockdown policies

This week we’re talking about the cost of the lockdown policies.

Governors in different states responded to the “pandemic” at different times and in different ways. Some states, such as California, ordered sweeping shutdowns. Others, such as Florida, took a more targeted approach. Still others, such as South Dakota, dispensed information but had no lockdowns at all.

As a result, we can now compare outcomes in different states, to test the question no one wants to ask: Did the lockdowns make a difference?

If lockdowns really altered the course of this pandemic, then coronavirus case counts should have clearly dropped whenever and wherever lockdowns took place. The problem is, according to the government’s own data, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Further, there is no doubt that there are huge amounts of “collateral damage” when it comes to these policies. These polices have prevented families from being with their dying loved ones, left our children’s education in peril, created huge mental health declines in the general population and so much more.

Please remember, these issues aren’t the result of the virus but rather the government ordered policies themselves. Keep reading…

It was already found prior to quarantine that social isolation can cause or exacerbate mental health conditions in children, and that loneliness in childhood can cause mental health problems up to almost a decade later.

Stanford epidemiologists’ study in Eur J Clin Invest: “lockdowns” did NOT control Covid-19 in either the spring or winter surges, & there were “numerous harms of aggressive measures” including potentially more Covid-19 deaths among the vulnerable elderly.

This study observed 2020 had the biggest increase in poverty in a single year since the government began tracking these figures in the 1960s.

This study concludes that “missed instruction during 2020 could be associated with an estimated 5.53 million years of life lost.”

This study finds lockdowns are 10 times more costly to public health than not locking down.

Please share these studies with your friends and family and remind them to “follow the science”