Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths

Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths…

MY NOTE: No one in their right mind could have ever imagined that they would.

Johns Hopkins University researchers say lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little to no impact in reducing COVID-19 deaths.According to a new analysis of dozens of scientific studies, the lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%.”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.

The lockdowns did have “devastating effects” on the economy, however, and contributed to numerous social ills, the paper noted.

“They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence and undermining liberal democracy,” the researchers said.

“Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: Lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument,” the paper concluded.

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David…