The Biggest Public Health Mistake in History!, 3623

Good afternoon, I’m still reporting on the coup.
A new study done by economists at the Univ. of Southern Calif., and the RAND Corporation found that the COVID lockdowns not only severely damaged the U.S. economy, they actually increased the death toll.
According to the study:
“We fail to find that shelter-in-place [SIP] policies saved lives.”
“[W]e use data from 43 countries that implemented SIP policies and all 50 U.S. states. We estimate the effect of SIP policies using an event study approach. We also examine the change in excess deaths following the introduction of SIP policies separately for each country and U.S. state.
“In both settings, we fail to find that SIP policies saved lives. To the contrary, we find a positive association between SIP policies and excess deaths. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases.”
Among the unintended consequences of the shelter-in-place policies were:
• unemployment or reduced economic activity
• increased stress and anxiety due to social isolation potentially leading to increased substance use and suicides
• reduced physical mobility potentially causing increases in child abuse and domestic violence
• reduced use of high value non-COVID care such as cancer screenings and vaccinations
According to Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford Univ., the COVID lockdowns were:
“…the single biggest public health mistake, possibly in all history.”
The ten states with the highest unemployment all implemented early and awful COVID lockdowns. All those states have Democrat governors. All those states stand to benefit the most from Biden’s new so-called infrastructure bill.
I’m still reporting from just outside the citadel of world freedom. Good day.