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In 2006, a team from Johns Hopkins University which included Tom Inglesby, Jennifer Nuzzo and the late, great smallpox eradicator and former dean of what is now the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, D.A. Henderson put out the masterful, Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza in response to the then recent idea that quarantines, closures, and measured lockdowns are mitigations that should be used.
The brilliant disease detective and his team wrote about lockdowns: It is difficult to identify circumstances in the past half-century when large-scale quarantine has been effectively used in the control of any disease. The negative consequences of large-scale quarantine are so extreme.. that this mitigation measure should be eliminated from serious consideration.
They also discussed other mitigations like school closures, social distancing, etc. It’s worth the read.
A number of studies have been published in the past couple years that concluded the same about lockdowns- HERE and HERE are a couple of examples.
Interestingly, a team from Johns Hopkins University just published a study that concluded lockdowns have done little to reduce COVID deaths (lockdowns in Europe and the U.S. reduced COVID-19 deaths by 0.2 percent), but have had “devastating effects” on economies and numerous social ills.
The study is titled, A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality
“We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality,” the authors wrote in the report.
Lockdowns were damaging to the economy, schooling, and more. They are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
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This study comes out approximately 1 1/2 years after Dr. Anthony Fauci (supported by the pro-lockdown “experts” on Twitter) said, “the fact that we shut down when we did and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives”.
“One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are — for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable — they just don’t believe science and they don’t believe authority,” Fauci said.
Dr. Henderson, how we needed your wisdom.
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Nobel laureates and renowned scientists said this at the beginning of the pandemic.It was never about medical science but a political agenda https://medium.com/@edwardagreenhalgh/covid-19-world-economic-collapse-under-the-rule-of-law-the-lock-downs-are-illegal-and-not-a-real-556c4b9b4ca8
Hack job, I hope no one else even wasted a moment on this steaming pile of shit.
So, three economists, one of whom has called lockdowns fascism write a pre-print article that is already getting shellacked for changing the definition of lockdown and we’re supposed to overturn previous peer-reviewed work that has shown that the lockdowns did work. Okay…