A huge Johns Hopkins University study is making global headlines today after finally settling the debate on lockdowns, masks, and restrictions, concluding they have NOT been effective at reducing Covid deaths! This is something I have been heavily censored for saying now for the past 2 years, including being permanently banned from FaceBook and all-but losing my 15 year YouTube channel. What was "conspiracy theory" and "medical disinformation" last week is now accepted fact, and being spread far and wide by the corporate media!
Below are key conclusions of the study:
"Overall, our meta-analysis fails to confirm that lockdowns have had a large, significant effect on mortality rates. Studies looking at facemasks, closing non-essential businesses, border closures, school closures, and limiting gatherings also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality."
"We do find some evidence that limiting gatherings was counterproductive and increased COVID-19 mortality."
"In the early stages of a pandemic, before the arrival of vaccines and new treatments, a society can respond in two ways: mandated behavioral changes or voluntary behavioral changes. Our study fails to demonstrate significant positive effects of mandated behavioral changes."
"Lockdowns have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal democracy. These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis has shown are marginal at best. Lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.
Lockdowns, school closures, border closures, sheltering in place, quarantines, social distancing, gathering limits, house arrest, and most other restrictions don't prevent Covid deaths. Limiting gatherings appears to increase Covid infections and deaths. The only measure that may have reduced deaths is closing bars and clubs. Mandating mask use does not decrease deaths, but there is some evidence for selective voluntary masking.
Aside from closing bars, no Covid measures reduced Covid deaths, but they caused significant damage to society and killed a lot of people. In addition to eroding freedom, destroying the economy, and reshaping society, lockdowns have contributed to family division, alcoholism, addictions, depression, anxiety, suicides, destroyed relationships, and a generation of scarred children.
We've known this wasn't about health and safety all along. The official Covid narrative has completely fallen apart since the calendar flipped to 2022, now including the admission that almost everything they forced upon us just got a lot more people hurt and killed. The study doesn't speculate on whether this was "involuntary manslaughter" or "first degree murder", and I'll leave that for you to ponder. Either way, it's absolutely crystal clear that lockdowns, mandates, and restrictions must end immediately.
DRutter