Posted on 11/06/2022 8:58:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The claim is now everywhere:
We had to lock down because we just didn’t know about this virus.
It was all very confusing and we had to play it safe.
We had no other option because we just had no clarity about what we were dealing with.
The precautionary principle dictated the unprecedented actions.
Actually, the precautionary principle goes both directions.
It also dictates that we not enact policies that we know for sure would wreck lives and liberties. They did it anyway, without sufficient knowledge that the measures would achieve any positive good.
We approach the third year and people have forgotten that all the harms of lockdowns were strongly warned about by many voices in many venues. In addition, the virus was much better understood back then and openly discussed. We knew for certain that the panic and fear were being wildly overblown.
Below follows resources assembled by the ‘Robber Baron‘ and many others who write for the Brownstone Institute. These citations from newspapers, magazines, academic journals and interviews, with many respected voices, show that we certainly knew tremendous amounts in the early days.
All the warnings and information were readily available to anyone paying attention.
2019: WHO Global Influenza Programme recommends against lockdowns and masks
Sept 2019: Johns Hopkins pandemic preparedness study recommends against lockdowns
Jan 24: Doctor warns that mass quarantine won’t work and will devastate society
Feb 28: Fauci says this is more akin to flu than something more deadly
Mar 1: Sweden: No effective measure to let healthy school children stay at home
Mar 2: Discussion on how Covid IFR was likely much lower than predicted
Mar 2: 800 public health scientists warn against lockdowns, quartantines, restrictions
Mar 3: Berkeley doctor indicates masks are not helpful in preventing Covid
Mar 9: Article on how Covid is only really dangerous to the elderly
Mar 12: Chief medical officer saying people shouldn’t wear masks
Mar 13: Review found severe mental health problems from prolonged quarantine
Mar 15: Medical organisation says stopping elective surgeries is unnecessary and dangerous
Mar 17: Warning of financial crisis, unrest, civil strife, war, and a meltdown of the social fabric
Mar 25: Data about the health impacts of crushing the economy
Mar 26: Early evidence of hospitals inaccurately listing Covid as cause of death
Mar 28: Predictions about the harms of lockdowns: Drugs, Suicide, and Crime
Mar 28: Guardian outlines rise in domestic abuse throughout the world
Mar 30: Study showing children are not the primary spreader of Covid
Apr 1: Article saying masks offer little to no advantage outside of hospital settings
Apr 4: Warning of the harm in delaying non-Covid medical procedures
Apr 7: Study from China finds of 7,324 COVID-19 cases only two transmissions occurred outdoors
Apr 7: Piece on the mental health cost of the lockdown on kids
Apr 8: Research showing school lockdowns aren’t helpful and cause great harm
Apr 13: More confirmation about domestic abuse rising due to lockdowns
Apr 15: Different approaches by countries have little impact on Covid deaths
Apr 15: Molecular Biologist suggests the cure is worse than the disease
Apr 16: UN overview about the poverty/death that will come from lockdowns
Apr 20: Oxford professor says cases in U.K. peaked before lockdown
Apr 22: Potential for 60,000 cancer deaths due to lack of screening/treatment
Apr 23: The harm lockdowns are having on people with heart conditions
Apr 24: Study showing school closings are the least cost-effective pandemic policy
Apr 28: Increasing child abuse is a side effect of Covid lockdowns
Apr 30: Santa Clara seroprevalence study shows high prevalence
May 1: Indications from Europe that lockdowns are ineffective
We certainly live in an age of short attention span but many these signs and warnings came weeks or months before the world locked down and they chronicled the damage as it was happening.
Why all this came to be completely ignored remains the burning question.
Can this be sent to Rand Paul’s office? He is involved in a task force looking at this very issue!
Trump issues ‘Coronavirus Guidelines’ for next 15 days to slow pandemic
Ha! A lot of them shut down voluntarily, but not because we weren’t going out in public. We all got crammed into the local grocery stores, Walmart, Target, and so on, because we weren’t allowed to go anywhere “nonessential “.
Never mind if you need some new shoes or have outgrown your clothes (for children). Had to buy them only from the Walmarts and Targets of the country, not the usual stores you shop. Or we also got forced to buy things online. No returns allowed.
You’re remembering things quite differently than I do. Plus, you’re justifying the fear they put out there. That fear was just like what they did in Nazi Germany. People became afraid of their Jewish friends and neighbors, and then they turned them in.
Disgusting. Rewriting the lockdowns is disgusting.
Biz owners were bought off.
And rather than stand together and fight, they took their bribes and knuckled under.
I agree. Even though C19 can be a nasty bug, it hasn't been a leading cause of death in my metro area. Even during surge periods, it was behind heart attacks, cancers and a couple other causes.
+1. Nice article but no mention of the effectiveness of vitamin D which was known in the early days of CV19.
Exactly! I guess we are lucky they didn’t ban that too.
If you're talking about the oxidative stress from glutathione deficiency comment, I have a bunch of links here:
The tl;dr version of what we know now (and my homeopathic routine with supporting videos from the above link) is here.
-PJ
Bs- almost every local decision cited CDC guidelines.
The cdc was promoted by politicians as “the authority.”
As far back as April, 2020, Dr. Roger Seheult of Medcram.com began to suspect that COVID-19 was "not a virus which effects the lungs, but does effect the lungs as a way of entry but it seems to do its most damage in the endothelium of the body."See Coronavirus Pandemic Update 62: Treatment with Famotidine (Pepcid)? and Coronavirus Pandemic Update 63: Is COVID-19 a Disease of the Endothelium (Blood Vessels and Clots)?
According to Seheult, the problem with COVID-19 treatments were that they were trying to treat a lung disease instead of a blood disease. The mRNA "vaccine" tried to trick the body into thinking the virus was there so it would create antibodies to attack the virus.
The treatments suggested by Vladimir Zelenko (and supported by pre-COVID-19 studies discussed by Dr. Seheult) showed that a zinc-HCQ/Quercetin regimen was more effective; they didn't try to create antibodies, they assumed the virus would infect so they focused on stopping the replication of the virus in the blood cells.
Coupled with a NAC treatment to keep oxidative stress down, this blood cell therapy was likely to be a much more effective treatment than trying to attack the COVID-19 virus directly.
In my opinion, there were to many vested interests in the power of the lock-downs to want to change anything. The Trump administration and the Pence Task Force were already moving forward with using the Defense Production Act to secure more ventilators, to secure more N95 masks, and to triage emergency room capacity to focus on anything else.
Trump's best friend Stanley Chera died from COVID in mid-April 2020, so it became personal to him.
If they focused on why the elderly were so much more susceptible to the virus, they might have clued into the glutathione deficiency root-cause sooner.
-PJ
Precisely.
Thank you. No way semimojo can back up his assertions, because it didn’t just happen the way he says or thinks it did.
Ping.
Seriously?
Coronavirus has halted these concerts, festivals and movie premieres
Major concert promoters recommend postponing arena tours due to coronavirus: What we know
Tucson bars, businesses close and concerts are postponed amid COVID surge
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC CAUSES NBA TO SUSPEND SEASON AFTER PLAYER TESTS POSITIVE
NHL to pause season due to coronavirus
No one is saying local and state governments didn't impose restrictions but it's just wrong to say government bans were the only reason businesses closed or drastically altered how they did business.
In early 2020 many, many people were worried about Covid and would have stayed home no matter what the government did.
And the biggest ongoing problem is that the death statistics are now all skewed. Doctors killed people in the hospital with killing respirators instead of known respiratory treatments. Old folks were murdered in their facilities.
*** In early 2020 many, many people were worried about Covid and would have stayed home no matter what the government did.***
Because of the FEAR and propaganda the government spewed out daily and nearly nonstop. It’s still going on, if you haven’t noticed. Fauci is all disappointed that we aren’t falling in line with this latest round of boosters.
There was no allowing for alternate positions. Anyone who did was, at the very minimum, shunned and told this was all misinformation. Many scientists and doctors who disagreed were called crazy and some even lost their jobs. Fauci could put up with no dissent. He’s not Mr. Science. Real science debates and that simply wasn’t allowed with SARS-CoV-2.
Some of the fear was because thousands of people were dying.
It depends on the jurisdiction. In my metro area of Illinois, the only stores open during the first lockdown was pot shops, liquor stores, and grocery stores. When things started to open up, government mandated how to operate..
Maybe where you lived.
Oh, and while, I’m at it, showing those numbers daily on our screens reminded me of the Vietnam Days. You know, where we were winning except the media didn’t want to tell us that? We lost the war because of propaganda.
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Evidence
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Two weeks to slow the spread!
Need I say more?
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