Johns Hopkins study, lockdowns don't work are ill founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy.

[Cougarbear]

All small business, restaurants and gyms were ordered closed, the only stores allowed to remain open were big box stores. You know damn well no one was ordered to stay in their homes, and that's not what is being referred to when the term 'lock down' is used.

The economy suffered greatly! Mental illness grew significantly! Deaths from health issues where people could not get tests done and treatments too! Child abuse at homes and schools were and still are huge! So much damage occurred because of lockdown and shutdown mandates. You are justifying this by ignoring what we Republicans and Conservatives have known since June of 2020? Pathetic! It’s time to outlaw these mandates! It’s time for civil disobedience to make this change.

 

[Not a Monkeys Uncle]

Liberal media blackout on Johns Hopkins study finding pandemic lockdowns ineffective, harmful

Liberal media blackout on Johns Hopkins study finding pandemic lockdowns ineffective, harmful · American Wire News

"CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC all ignored the anti-lockdown findings after having spent much of the pandemic shaming red states."

americanwirenews.com

 

[ScorpioRising007]

This systematic review and meta-analysis are designed to determine whether there is empirical evidence to support the belief that “lockdowns” reduce COVID-19 mortality. Lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI). NPIs are any government mandate that directly restrict peoples’ possibilities, such as policies that limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel. This study employed a systematic search and screening procedure in which 18,590 studies are identified that could potentially address the belief posed. After three levels of screening, 34 studies ultimately qualified. Of those 34 eligible studies, 24 qualified for inclusion in the meta-analysis. They were separated into three groups: lockdown stringency index studies, shelter-in-placeorder (SIPO) studies, and specific NPI studies. An analysis of each of these three groups support the conclusion that lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality. 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. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

I think both democrats and republicans are figuring this out too. At beginning during Trumps presidency we thought we could contain the virus just by locking it down...and then it would go away... but it never did just got worse.... I think we have moved to a more relistic approach... living with COVID, it's always going be here and lockdowns are silly. I think the mass vaccination & mass natural immunity to boost America to a level of herd immunity is proving more reasonable and effective in the longrun over lockdowns.