Has the lockdown actually saved anyone?
Is it true that even one life has been saved by the draconian stay home orders?
In the long run, the lockdown will destroy 10X as many lives, at least. Maybe closer to 100X.
Martha, a 75-year-old woman living in North Baltimore, Ohio has been saved because her husband’s knee replacement surgery has been postponed and she would have caught the virus from Pat at the local pharmacy where Martha was picking up her husband’s pain medication and Pat was getting Claritin-D for what she thinks are bad allergies but is really the virus. Pat has a bad few days until the Claritin kicks ins and then feels fine.
They both had to stand in line at the pharmacy a while because Tina, the pharm tech, is not there because she had to take a leave of absence since both her kids and her sister’s are not in school and someone has to watch them. Both their husbands and her sister fortunately still have jobs but they are of the kind that cannot be worked from home.
The pharmacist is working alone, but is having a hard time moving fast because she has a pin in her leg and a cast that should have been taken off two weeks ago, but she has to wait until non essential medical procedures are allowed.
Theresa, a 55-year-old in Edison, NJ, has had hard to manage Type 1 diabetes since childhood. She dies from her diabetes-related heart disease that was worsened from the stress of worrying about how her mother is doing in her nursing home in Queens and not being able to check in on her.
So yes, the lockdown has saved one life.