Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Study: COVID Lockdowns Did Not Stop Spread Of Virus
OAN News ^ | 8:26 AM PT – Thursday, August 4, 2022 | Staff

Posted on 08/05/2022 5:30:27 AM PDT by Red Badger

According to a new study, restaurant and business closures were not an effective way to stop the spread of COVID-19. The data, published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, found these closures actually do not contribute to the suppression of the coronavirus.

Researchers in Japan conducted the study throughout the two years of lockdowns on the country, following a model where a large pool of subjects periodically answered surveys. According to data they compiled, the closure of restaurants and bars in the country did not lead to a notable decrease in symptoms among the Japanese people, except less cough among college graduates.

The study summarized that given the detrimental effects the COVID-19 lockdowns have had on people, alternative measures for full service restaurants and bars should be considered before they are closed completely. The findings come as human rights activists and some American scientists have argued mass lockdowns have harmed society more than they helped.

United Nations Women found that the COVID-19 lockdowns have caused a “shadow pandemic” with skyrocketed gender abuse and domestic violence cases. Additionally, the American Medical Association noted a spike in suicide cases in the US during lockdowns.

“We can see how the impact of COVID-19 and unemployment can impact social acclimation, mounting bills, housing concerns, interpersonal difficulty, untreated medical concerns, substance misuse,” explained Stephen O’Connor, Health Scientist Administrator at the National Institute of Mental Health. “And how overtime those can manifest into what we deem more suicide specific mechanisms such as sort of a longingness, a variance version of feeling isolated and not belonging.”

Though monkeypox cases are rising in the US and variants of the coronavirus continue to cause infections, research indicates lockdowns do not appear to be a viable or practical option to combating either.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; History; Society
KEYWORDS:

1 posted on 08/05/2022 5:30:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Red Badger
But the lockdowns did accomplish what they were intended to accomplish. So they are likely to return soon.
2 posted on 08/05/2022 5:37:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger
The question that is rarely asked:
At what cost?

-- What is the cost to society of implementing lockdowns to protect against the spread of a respiratory virus (even if lockdowns worked ... which they do not)?

-- What is the cost to the physical and mental health of children of forcing them to wear a mask to protect against a respiratory virus (even if masks worked ... which they do not)?

-- What is the cost to the physical health of people of forcing them to be injected with a potentially lethal, redefined "vaccine" ((even if these experimental treatments worked ... which which they do not)?

... and so forth and so on .........

3 posted on 08/05/2022 5:39:26 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: glennaro

What is the cost of lies?


4 posted on 08/05/2022 5:40:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

I wonder if they will institute another lockdown for Monkeypox, a disease that’s NOT fatal?...........................


5 posted on 08/05/2022 5:40:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator
So far, not much. A potential Democrat/Communist Party presidential candidate (Newsom the Vile) deliberately caused the death of more than 5,000 American senior citizens living in California nursing homes in 2000 ... and he has yet to incur any cost at all for doing so!
6 posted on 08/05/2022 5:43:53 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

The lockdowns weren’t intended to stop the virus. They were intended to stop our freedoms.

They found out just how easy it was to control the populace. And they WILL do it again.


7 posted on 08/05/2022 5:46:43 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Government—reliant on fake science (dictators Fauci and Birx), deficit spending, mass migration at the southern border with no health checks, and bizarre sexual deviancy pushed at every level.

The fundamental transformation of America.


8 posted on 08/05/2022 5:48:43 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Since pretty much everybody I know has caught Covid, I would suggest that empirical evidence should suffice... Why even bother conducting a ‘study’ to determine the obvious.


9 posted on 08/05/2022 5:48:53 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

When I was offered a mask (majority of masks were made in china) I knew Americans were being duped and I would laugh and walk away


10 posted on 08/05/2022 5:52:52 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger; Roman_War_Criminal; metmom; Maudeen; Bulwyf; HeadOn; SisterK; Diogenesis; Karliner; ...

By accident or by design, a test run for the Mark of the Beast.

Which will not come until the 7-year deal of ‘Peace and Security’ is confirmed by Satan’s anti-messiah.

And then, still 1,260 days until the False Prophet implements the Mark of the Beast.

Churches shut down ✅

Can’t work - ✅

Proof of approved status ✅

Can’t sell (for some) ✅

Can’t buy (vaxx required in some places) ✅

World 🌎🌍 wide ✅

Microchip implants, QR codes for vaxx status (a few tries) ✅

Eliminate cash (has COVID) ✅

Divide society ✅

Travel restrictions ✅

Work restrictions (on the working) ✅

Yeah, on purpose or accidental, an excellent dry run.

✝️🙏🛐


11 posted on 08/05/2022 5:55:33 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SharpRightTurn

(The fundamental transformation of America)

Just days away.......14 years ago


12 posted on 08/05/2022 5:56:34 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Given that 90+% of those who contract monkeypox are gay males catching it from having sex with other men, the only logical shutdown needed is to forbid all male gay sex. Since the Left cannot allow any of this to be known, they can never allow the only reasonable deterrence to stopping the spread, and instead must take the opportunity to clamp down even more on the rest of the planet.


13 posted on 08/05/2022 5:59:36 AM PDT by Teacher317
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Study pigeon-holed in 3...2...1...


14 posted on 08/05/2022 6:07:51 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Two Weeks to
Flatten the Curve,
Two Years
Like Slaves we Served !
.
Cast Off the Shackles of an oppresive Society,
Rise Up As Free Men!
.
Monkey Pox is a Gay Disease


15 posted on 08/05/2022 6:12:09 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

.
Monkey Pox is a Gay Disease


16 posted on 08/05/2022 6:15:43 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger
Lotsa studies have said the same thing.

I remember Cuomo being stunned to find out that almost 70% of new cases in NYC were people who had been home bound.

17 posted on 08/05/2022 6:34:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

Yes, there have been a number of studies showing the same. But hey, the more the merrier. Glad they are doing these studies.

I don’t know why Cuomo was surprised. In NYC, “homebound” people live in a high rises with lots of other “homebound” people. Covid is airborne. Of course they got sick.


18 posted on 08/05/2022 7:46:19 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson