Lockdowns Have Been a Disaster

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for posting the powerline perspective of John Hinderaker focused on the view of Canadian pediatrician Dr. Ari Joffe.

As far as best methods to reduce spread, per infectious disease doctors who are friends, disinfecting hands frequently and not getting close to strangers and other people are much more effective than wearing a cloth mask. This virus like most other airborne virus is nanometers wide and not restricted by non airtight attempts to stop it :-)


California doc calls lockdowns ‘failure of imagination,’ as CA becomes epicenter
Stanford University professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya explains on ‘Fox and Friends Weekend.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8FNinmHoU8

"By any sensible calculation, the principal worldwide covid damage has come not from the virus, but from governments’ efforts to suppress it, principally through lockdowns. Dr. Ari Joffe attempts to quantify that disproportion. Joffe is a distinguished Canadian pediatrician, having recently been named one of the ten most influential researchers in the field of pediatric critical care.

Dr. Joffe itemizes some of the adverse consequences of shutdowns:
Public health leaders are medical experts and are necessary advisors in formulating a response to the pandemic. However, their expertise is not sufficient to make policy decisions. There are trade-offs to any decision made, and preventing COVID-19 cases, deaths, and overwhelmed hospital capacity are not the only factors to consider. Unfortunately, the response perspective of controlling a single disease has had devastating, often unequally distributed, collateral effects.
Lockdowns have put many sustainable development goals out of reach. In many parts of the world there have been interruptions in childhood vaccinations, education, detection and treatment of infectious diseases (for example, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV), and prevention of under 5-year-old and maternal mortality, projected to cost many millions of lives in the coming years. These interruptions in economic activity and supply chains are estimated to cause more than 83 million people to become food insecure, and over 70 million people to enter severe poverty (living on less than US$1.90/day), both likely to cost many more millions of lives in the coming years. Violence against women, including intimate partner violence, female genital mutilation, and child marriage are projected to also increase by many millions of cases.
In high-income countries other collateral damage from lockdowns is occurring. Fear of attending hospitals resulted in 50 percent declines in visits for heart attacks and strokes, meaning missed opportunity for time-critical treatments. ‘Non-urgent’ surgery and cancer diagnosis/treatment were delayed, with backlogs that will take years of catch-up and untold effects on prognoses. Of excess mortality during the pandemic, 20-50 percent has not been due to COVID-19 (see Kontis et al. 2020; Docherty et all 2020; and Postill et al 2020); much of that excess is likely attributable to these collateral effects. An unexplained increase in deaths of people with dementia in the US and UK also likely arose from deterioration due to loneliness. Over time, suicide, depression, alcohol use disorder, childhood trauma due to domestic violence, changes in marital status, and social isolation are projected to cause millions of years of life lost in Canada alone."



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Lock downs and mask have been nothing but a scam to see just how far the American people can be pushed.

They are finally seeing that the lockdowns didn't work.