Please read the entire article: COVID pandemic lockdowns, what were the impacts on public health?
A growing number of scientific studies have concluded the measures in the United States did little to slow the rampaging pathogen. What’s more, the stifling of public debate about them eroded trust in public health policy and prevented more effective strategies, according to a number of prominent infectious-disease experts.
A influential 2006 paper and the WHO’s own 2019 report on respiratory virus pandemics concluded that what public health did in 2020 – did not – in general – work. Lock downs, masks, travel restrictions, etc. Only during the first few weeks could these measures temporarily slow the spread – after that, they served no purpose, per the WHO’s own report.
The pandemic did not stop.
“On average, states with Democratic governors had stay-at-home orders that were nearly three times longer than those in red states. Yet many so-called blue states — including California, New York, and New Mexico — had among the highest COVID-19 death rates, measured as a share of their population. And some red states, including Idaho and Utah, had among the lowest, national health data shows, according to an analysis by Macedo and a Princeton colleague, Frances Lee..”
And:
“You couldn’t witness the mass deaths in New York City and Italy and not think that something had to be done,”said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. “But tools like shutdowns and school closures are sledgehammers and shouldn’t be part of our toolbox.”
She told us that protesting was more important than fighting a virus:
Francis Collins, former NIH director worked to stifle dissent – from people’s whose perspectives now appear to have been correct.
Australia: ‘Failed to consider local realities’: New COVID report finds Australian governments did not adequately consider human rights | Sky News Australia … and resulted in excessive harms to the public.
