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Last January, the John Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise published a working paper which showed clearly how lockdowns across the world did not affect Covid-19 mortality at all.
The paper, is written by economists Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung and Steve H. Hanke, now appearing in its final version, titled A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ONCOVID-19 MORTALITY – II
The use of lockdowns is a unique feature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have not been used to such a large extent during any of the pandemics of the past century. However, lockdowns during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have had devastating effects. They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, loss of life quality, and the undermining of liberal democracy. These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis has shown are little to none.
Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: until future research based on credible empirical evidence can prove that lockdowns have large and significant reductions in mortality, lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.
The conclusion is of course counterintuitive to many, but it is a fact-based and well argued conclusion arrived at through a rigorous, well designed and unusually transparent meta review of available research.
Appendix II is a particularly interesting read. Some readers may recall the media storm against this paper, driven by some self-proclaimed fact-checkers. The appendix not only debunks all the “fact-checkers” claims but the authors also demonstrate how they were based not on any understanding of the paper (in fact it looks as if the “fact-checkers” mostly never even read it), but rather on superficial and to a large extent irrelevant “criticisms”, repeated blindly by one “fact-checker” and one media outlet after another.
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Billion dollar lawsuit featuring Guatemala must still have legs.
It might not have affected mortality from respiratory illnesses, but it definitely increased mortality from suicides, general deterioration of health and starvation globally.
May I borrow yet again: “It’s how you know it’s working.”
I could not go to a party tonight because only vaccinated are welcome. STILL! Oh well. Home grown salad from right outside my house tastes good, too.
Serious question.
You would not, under any circumstances, interact with those zombie-party people after this, would you?
Nope.
Inside of me, there is still some of that grief about people who I thought I knew and about what is irretrievably lost.
I should let that go, but that is about as useful as telling a bereaved person to stop being sad alright.
Svarga,while a bit of a pain enjoy your meal with a smug look on your face(makes eating tough)knowing you are right.
Always better to find out now while times not too challenging who you know that can/cannot be trusted.
Trusted family/friends is what will be needed in the future/not faux friends.
Let those zombies fester in their own stupidity. You fly.
Like brandon’s answer to his travails…Depends™
They’re gonna be the ones who are missing out, Svarga. You’d probably catch something from them, anyhow.
Auntie trusts NOTHING from the Johns Hopkins U., The Evil Fucker academic arm, along with Hahvid and the other usual famous and Ivy League institutions now of Troskyite persuasion.
If ANYONE believes a single word of any media “expert”
they are beyond salvaging. The last 3 years should have
slapped even the densest fool into the reality that the
“experts” were wrong about everything.
Everything.