ICYMI, a lot of people have been complaining about COVID lockdowns and restrictions. It’s no real surprise given how hard some parts of the country locked down. As a matter of fact, there are still some places around the country that are locked down or still require masks wherever you go. But I guess the glimmer of light is that those ‘lockdowny’ places dodged the COVID bullet. Right?
No.
Not even a little bit. There’s now full-blown confirmation that lockdowns DID. NOT. WORK.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University did a metadata analysis study and found that lockdowns in the early part of the pandemic reduced mortality of COVID-19 by a whopping 0.2%.
You read that right.
0.2%
We shut down schools, businesses, churches, and anything that was “non-essential” in order to gain a 0.2% advantage, which hardly seems worth it. Then you layer in the government’s response to the shutdowns and the money that we spent to keep people afloat during the lockdowns, which didn’t work. We spent TRILLIONS of dollars that we don’t have, which in turn has caused the highest rates of inflation in 40 years. The study’s conclusion plainly stated:
Overall, we conclude that lockdowns are not an effective way of reducing mortality rates during a pandemic, at least not during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON
COVID-19 MORTALITY
That’s about as straightforward as it gets. If you’re interested in reading the full conclusion from this report, the researchers did a pretty good job at (hopefully) burning down the idea of lockdowns forever.
Now, the one thing that I’m sure we’re all going to hear from the lockdowners (if this story gets any media attention) is the idea of “well, it was at least worth a try.” This would be a fair-ish argument IF the researchers at Johns Hopkins didn’t also include the following statement that’ll blow your mind…
“Our results are in line with the World Health Organization Writing Group (2006), who state, ‘Reports from the 1918 influenza pandemic indicate that social-distancing measures did not stop or appear to dramatically reduce transmission.'”
A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON
COVID-19 MORTALITY
WE ALREADY KNEW LOCKDOWNS DIDN’T WORK. Reports from the WHO showed that ‘social-distancing measures’ didn’t do anything in 1918 either…
Yet we still tried them and at GREAT cost to the American way of life and the economy’s bottom line! All in the name of making people “feel safe.”
