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JOHNS HOPKINS ANALYSIS: COVID LOCKDOWNS INEFFECTIVE AT SAVING LIVES

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An analysis of studies that focused just on stay-at-home orders found they were 2.9 percent effective at reducing mortality. Studies that gathered data on a broad number of government-imposed pandemic measures actually indicated that stay-at-home orders marginally increased COVID deaths.

The authors concluded that governments should abandon lockdown measures because of their negligible impact on mortality and the real societal damage they cause.

"While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted," the researchers wrote. "In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument."

The study was published by Johns Hopkins's Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. One of the study's authors, economics professor Steve Hanke, is a codirector of the institute.

So... an estimated $ 35 trillion lost because of lockdowns in the U.S. and worldwide... no effect.
All the lost small businesses, all the arrests, all the harassment, all the bankrupted families, all the foreclosed homes... no effect.

Score another success for the Democrat-Bolshevik authoritarian left.
And they'e STILL trying to force vaccination of truck drivers in the U.S. and Canada.
They're still forcing immunizations and masks on children, who actually are far more at risk of lifetime injury or death from Covid-vaccination, than they are from the disease. They are not a risk group, but against the science, are being PUT AT RISK by intrusive and illogical vaccine mandates.



Likewise the masks:

LOCKDOWNS LITTLE OR NO EFFECT IN 2020, MASKS 0.2% EFFECTIVE

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ockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
The lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%, said the broad review of multiple scientific studies.

“We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality,” the researchers wrote.

And stuck on stupid (or just motivated by pure ruthless political gain), the Democrat/Left is still, even now, pushing for lockdowns.