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The White House Throws Fauci ‘Under the Bus’: Jen Psaki Claims The Biden Administration Has ‘Not Been Pro-Lockdown’
Becker News ^ | 02/04/22 | Kyle Becker

Posted on 02/04/2022 11:59:30 AM PST by Enlightened1

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was confronted with a new Johns Hopkins comprehensive study that shows “lockdowns” were a comprehensive failure worldwide.

When asked about the irrefutable evidence that the lockdowns caused massive damage, but delivered no tangible benefits, Psaki went into full spin-mode.

“We’ve not been pro-lockdown — most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous President,” Psaki claimed.

The study in question is a thorough review done by Johns Hopkins university. Its results are damning.

“What does the evidence tell us about the effects of lockdowns on mortality?” We provide a firm answer to this question: The evidence fails to confirm that lockdowns have a significant effect in reducing COVID-19 mortality. The effect is little to none.
The use of lockdowns is a unique feature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have not been used to such a large extent during any of the pandemics of the past century.

However, lockdowns during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have had devastating effects. They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal democracy. These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis has shown are marginal at best. Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.

That’s as blunt a refutation of lockdowns from an academic institution as it gets.

That’s as blunt a refutation of lockdowns from an academic institution as it gets.


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KEYWORDS: fauci; lockdowns; psaki; trump
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To: TnTnTn

20 years from now the Democrats will probably say the Democrats never wanted the lockdowns. It was the Republicans.


21 posted on 02/04/2022 12:32:21 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Steve_Seattle

Most of the lockdowns probably did happen under Trump but R govs opened back up by the end of the year.


22 posted on 02/04/2022 12:38:09 PM PST by pas
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To: Enlightened1
The White House Throws Fauci ‘Under the Bus’

Fortunately for Fauci, the bus was parked at the time.

23 posted on 02/04/2022 12:38:50 PM PST by ytrebil
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To: Lurker

Pee Wee Herman is way smarter and only touched himself.


24 posted on 02/04/2022 12:39:34 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Enlightened1

Surprised Penlacky did not say something like we have been far ahead of the curve, we don’t even lock down criminals.


25 posted on 02/04/2022 12:40:09 PM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Enlightened1

The White House Paid Liar is going to screw herself into the ground if she keeps up the constant 180 turnarounds.


26 posted on 02/04/2022 12:40:17 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (When Satan craps another demon possessed Progressive is born.)
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To: Enlightened1

Imagine being married to her.


27 posted on 02/04/2022 12:45:23 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Enlightened1

OMG. Brandon’s minions will say anything and don’t care how much proof there is to the contrary. They’re pathological.


28 posted on 02/04/2022 12:50:52 PM PST by Spok (Who is Ray Epps?)
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To: Capt. Tom

Portland TV news, every night.


29 posted on 02/04/2022 12:51:53 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Enlightened1

You can’t hurt Dr Fubar he’s indestructible 🤪


30 posted on 02/04/2022 12:52:01 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Enlightened1

Well, if true, that’s interesting.


31 posted on 02/04/2022 12:53:34 PM PST by livius
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To: Enlightened1

what gets me isn’t the lies... it’s that they SCRIPT the lies knowing that their side doesn’t care.


32 posted on 02/04/2022 12:54:09 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Jane Long

The Ginger Goebbels nickname fits her well.


33 posted on 02/04/2022 12:58:55 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
These people no longer care about any pretense of credibility because they know they do not answer to us.

Since we know the prog have zero credibility the "do not answer to us" thing is a two way street, no matter how much the demand that we do.

The few times (about 3) that I have gotten "Karen-ed" I don't even bother to look at them, I keep going and ignore them as I would a barking dog.

Two of the three times it was for the felonious crime of walking into a building through a wide open exit door.

They live such pathetic lives.

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34 posted on 02/04/2022 1:02:50 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Jane Long

If most of the lock downs happened under Trump, which were not his doing, and this current administration was opposed to them, then why didn’t they lift them all as soon as xiden got sworn in?


35 posted on 02/04/2022 1:04:29 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Jane Long

If most of the lock downs happened under Trump, which were not his doing, and this current administration was opposed to them, then why didn’t they lift them all as soon as xiden got sworn in?


36 posted on 02/04/2022 1:04:29 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Enlightened1

Who asked the question? I didn’t spot that in the article.


37 posted on 02/04/2022 1:11:56 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Enlightened1

Jen Psakiofshit just broadcasting more of Biden’s cover up lies.


38 posted on 02/04/2022 1:12:19 PM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: WKUHilltopper

The sad thing is that the legacy media will let Biden go into the midterms as “anti-lockdown”, or whatever other label Biden thinks will win votes. And the sadder thing is that a bunch of Americans will accept it.

Basically, all our media does for the evening news is just read the DNC talking points they got that same morning.


39 posted on 02/04/2022 1:35:18 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Arcadian Empire

I use both, interchangeably ;-)


40 posted on 02/04/2022 1:36:28 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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