Totalitarianism on display.
Posted on 06/05/2026 6:03:57 AM PDT by Heartlander
The Covid lockdowns may not have been remotely effective, but at least they harmed millions of people and created long-lasting negative impacts that we’re still dealing with today.
That’s the conclusion of a massive new body of research into the nonsensical policies promoted by the public health “expert” class, promoted by their media partners, and enacted by incompetent, cowardly politicians.
Mask mandates had been thoroughly discouraged by decades of pre-Covid pandemic planning. There was no body of research supporting the closing of certain businesses at different hours of the day, as many jurisdictions demanded.
No studies were conducted on the reduction of infection rates resulting from placing directional arrows on the floors of grocery stores to direct people through aisles in predetermined patterns.
There were no randomized controlled trials on closing skate parks and beaches, arresting people surfing alone in the ocean, restricting capacity to random percentages based on inaccurate assumptions of community spread.
We had no idea whether closing schools would be effective or “save lives,” but we did it anyway. We didn’t know if vaccine passports would actually have a meaningful impact on community spread, yet we were encouraged to push that too.
All these “interventions” started with little-to-no evidence. That’s bad enough. What makes it much worse? That we implemented them all with zero consideration of possible side effects resulting from those policies.
Lockdowns were an unprecedented incursion on freedom and liberty. What would that do to society, the economy, mental health, and so on? It appeared that no one involved gave those considerations a second thought, and now we’re paying the price.
A massive new systematic review of over 130 studies of Covid policies was published recently in Health Affairs Scholar by writers from the Department of Health Policy, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis, synthesizing the research into ancillary outcomes from lockdowns, school closures, and other mandates. The goal of this systematic review was to find the “unintended health effects” resulting from those policies. Essentially, putting Covid aside, what were the results when it came to various important measures of health?
They write that while policymakers and public health authorities have produced years of reports and lectures on the importance of mandates and lockdowns in reducing viral transmission, there’s a large “gap in the literature” regarding what other impacts may have resulted from “shelter-in-place/stay-at-home orders, workplace closures, and school closures.”
While peer-review isn’t a guarantee of accuracy, all 132 studies included in the analysis were peer-reviewed. Those 132 studies resulted in finding over 450 unique outcomes. And spoiler alert, the overwhelming majority of those outcomes were negative.
What makes their results even more infuriating is that there was, as they explain, “very low quality” evidence that lockdowns would be effective, as well as a “lack of information on potential unintended downstream consequences.” Yet decision-makers plowed forward anyway, despite the “serious ethical, economic, health equity, and human rights concerns” resulting from such policies.
Not to mention that the researchers found that lockdowns had “little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality,” the most important stated goal of lockdowns. Stay home, save lives, the mantra went. Turns out, like so many other government messages, that this was completely and utterly incorrect.
So we’ve established that there was no reduction in Covid mortality from lockdowns, very low quality evidence supporting lockdowns in the first place, and an overwhelming majority of studies found negative side effects from those policies. All great news so far. But it gets even better when examining what those negative side effects actually were, and how widespread those results were.
What they found, from 132 peer-reviewed studies and 450 specific results, was that “over 90% of mental health, obesity-related, and health-related social need outcomes” were impacted by lockdowns. Of the 454 unique measurements from those studies, 75 percent were reported as “detrimental.”
After years of politicians and public health figures extolling the importance of mental health, mental health outcomes in this research were astonishingly bad. They found that 93 percent of mental health outcomes studied were “deemed detrimental.” And that wasn’t a small sample either, as the researchers found that it was the “most frequently studied category.”
If one only uses Google to search outcomes, lockdowns were associated with increased activity for terms like “boredom,” “loneliness,” “sadness,” and “worry.”
There was a significant rise in positive suicide screenings among adolescents and a consistent increase in mental health facility use for diagnoses like panic disorder and severe stress. Incredibly, they found that “quasi-experimental work found that increases in mental health facility use were more strongly associated with the presence of lockdown policies than with the pandemic or illness itself.” That suggests “policy restrictions exerted an independent effect on population well-being.”
Horrifying.
So the lockdowns led to increased suicidal ideation, a massive increase in mental health facility usage, rampant loneliness, panic disorder, and had no impact on mortality rates. But the good news doesn’t end there.
As we know, obesity is one of the most harmful physical conditions, resulting with any number of significant health issues. Well, lockdowns helped there too. Of the analyses studying the effect of lockdowns on obesity, outcomes were “overwhelmingly negative,” with “94.3% of analyses reporting detrimental effects.”
In one specific study, there was an astonishing “19-fold increase in obesity risk among children previously classified at normal weight prepandemic.” Another study found a remarkable “tenfold increase in BMI z-score gain among children during school closures.” Great work, “health” experts!
Thanks to delayed healthcare screenings, the review found substantially higher rates of late-stage lung cancer diagnoses. And the breakdown in social order led to increases in trauma-related admissions due to gun and knife violence.
That’s not a surprise, as lockdowns led to massive unemployment and stress over financial stability. Sure enough, when the researchers examined research on those side effects, they found that “100% of outcomes” related to employment, food access, and economic stability were detrimental.
Similarly, childhood development and education also had detrimental outcomes. In 96.6% of studies, there was significant learning loss and disrupted socialization among younger demographics – who were, of course, at essentially zero risk of significant impacts from Covid itself.
For a group who claims to care about “equity,” and trying to force equal outcomes across different racial and ethnic groups, public health experts somehow ignored the inequitable negative side effects from lockdowns.
Vulnerable demographic groups were significantly more likely to report negative outcomes, over 90 percent of the time, than more stable groups. One hundred percent of outcomes for those vulnerable groups were deemed detrimental regarding important health determinants like obesity, food access, and economic stability.
Nailed it again, health equity experts!
So to sum up, we had no evidence that lockdowns would be effective.
We had no research or consideration for the negative outcomes that would result from lockdowns and they had no impact on Covid mortality.
In postmortem research, the overwhelming majority of studied individual outcomes were negative or detrimental, in important categories like mental health, physical health, economic conditions, and obesity.
And for a group that claims to care about “equity,” public health policies overwhelmingly impacted already vulnerable demographic groups the most.
It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive and thorough repudiation of the Anthony Fauci Covid doctrine.
Do whatever Fauci says, never consider the consequences, then demean and label any and all critics, never admit wrongdoing or take accountability for the damage you’ve caused.
“The Science” in a nutshell.
- Republished from the author’s Substack
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Our mild pastor was banned from Menard’s in Angola after the state lifted the mask requirement from businesses. Menard’s had not done so. I can guarantee you that he has still not gone back. I heard open mic employees chasing a woman without a mask either. It sounded like mentally ill jackals. They had not shame. Ya, Pepperidge Farms remembers.
1. Bite off more than I can chew
2. Build Rome in one day
3. Poke a bear with a stick
4. Beat a dead horse
5. Skate on thin ice
I'm putting on my skates now...
There were also a lot of people/companies that made a LOT of money due to covid-19. Not just the ones producing vaccines or invested in the stock(Pfizer, Moderna, etc).
All the lumber companies and trading companies like the one I work for had all time record years in 2021-23. Prices quadrupled and then fell back and then went up gain and then eventually fell to below cost lost spring. It all started when people were working out of the house doing Honey Do projects.
Other companies started making hand sanitizer instead of booze. Every company had hand sanitizer/temperature sensor stations by their door.
Companies that installed plexiglass had more work than they could handle.
Anyone doing almost ANY type of residential construction, excavation, landscaping, electrical, plumbing, etc had more work than ever before.
The stock market cratered then boomed. Then fell back and boomed again. Now at all time records. 401Ks tripled. People became millionaires.
Housing prices doubled or more in five years. Here in NH the prices have been going up now for fourteen years straight with NO pull back. It has been an unprecidented real estate up cycle. People have become multimillionaires due to real estate investments. They stopped going up in places like Austin in 2022.
Moving companies were also extremely busy as people left CA, NY, NJ, WA, OR, MA and moved to AZ, ID, MT, TX, NC, SC, FL, NH , ME. Now, people are leaving some of those states and moving back to IL, MI and the cheapest real estate in the country West Virginia.
You wouldn't have taken this path, but fwdude chose to and it was his right to do so.
My local bird food supply store did the same in Avon, Indiana. It was a week after the state had gotten rid of the mandate. I entered without a mask, shopped for several minutes when the clerks realized I wasn’t wearing a mask. They asked me to put one or leave. So I left. They had to empty my very full cart. I haven’t been back since. I was probably one of their best customers, if not the best, or number 2 or 3. For a small business, you’d think they’d have thought twice about their policy, and I still wonder why they didn’t go along with the new state policy. Too brain-numbed, I guess.
Do you shed your concealed weapon in businesses that tell you you can’t carry them there? Be honest.
The COVID insanity sadly persists. I have seen the truly brainwashed still sporting face masks even while they are outdoors or driving in their car. The economic toll in Minnesota, where Governor Tampon Tim Walz shutdown the majority of the state’s small businesses, continues where many restaurants and small resorts are closing after not being able to financially claw back from a year of shutdown.
I know how you felt, but the store manager was just doing their job and probably thought the masks were just as stupid as you did/do.
I had the same experience at a local grocery store. Towards the end I went in without a mask. After being in there for fifteen minutes the store manager came up to me and asked me if I could put a mask on. He said that he had a complaint from some Karen that I was not wearing one. I could tell he was embarrassed to ask me. Plus he had been with the company for 30 years. He was in his late 50s early 60s. I told him I did not have one. He said if I went up to the Service Desk they would give me one. Again, he apologized for having to ask me. So, I complied. I still shop there all the time.
DID COVID SHOTS CONTRIBUTE TO KYLE BUSCH”S DEATH?
*** the store manager was just doing their job and probably thought the masks were just as stupid as you did/do.***
This is not true. They were actually terrified. They kept that policy up for another year. I know because they kept their sign up. It’s in a strip center, where I go to the other stores nearby, who all took down their signs.
I only complied while the state had the mask mandate. As soon as that was rescinded, I didn’t wear one again.
“Do whatever [Comrade Marx] says, never consider the consequences, then demean and label any and all critics, never admit wrongdoing or take accountability for the damage you’ve caused.”
If you couldn’t see this happening when it was happening across the globe, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya!
I’m STILL P*SSED. I will ALWAYS be P*SSED over this Trial Balloon for Communism scam!
Follow the science? Except that there wasn’t any!
I’m beyond just wanting them in jail. Fauci, the FDA, Pfizer executives, those who hid the research, the enforcers and the lockdown politicians should ALL be executed regardless of party affiliation.
Where are the bullet points?
"Fighting tyranny" in a vicarious manner like that -- against the wishes of the property owner -- is so retarded that it's shocking to find it posted here on FR.
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I even stopped attending professional sports events over this.
Lest we forget.....
Thalidomide was discovered in 1954 by German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal. It was originally intended as a sedative, but was later used to treat a variety of other conditions
Thalidomide was officially banned in the United States in 1961.
Explanation
Thalidomide was withdrawn from most markets by 1961.
Thalidomide was prescribed to pregnant women in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was used to treat morning sickness.
Thalidomide was promoted for pregnant women in West Germany, Spain, and other countries.
Explanation
West Germany: Thalidomide was available over-the-counter in West Germany when it was first marketed in 1957. It was promoted for morning sickness, anxiety, and trouble sleeping.
Spain: Thalidomide was widely available in Spain throughout the 1970s and possibly into the 1980s. Other countries: Thalidomide was also recommended for pregnant women in other countries.
Thalidomide was initially thought to be safe for pregnant women, but it caused birth defects. It was removed from the market in Europe in 1961.
Birth defects
Thalidomide caused skeletal deformities, such as phocomelia (malformation of the limbs), amelia (absence of legs and/or arms), and absence of bones.
Those who survived had problems with their heart, urinary tract, eyes, and limbs.
About 40% of infants who were severely harmed by thalidomide use during pregnancy died around the time of birth.
The drug was never approved by the FDA for pregnant women in the US.
The thalidomide scandal led to stricter drug testing and licensing regulations in the United States.
~~~
THE PANDEMIC THAT WASN’T
Covid-19 jabs and boosters were and are free drug trials for big pharm. They got away with lying daily, weekly and by the hour. The thalidomide scandal had more recognition because of the physical birth defects, regarding covid-19 jab, what new horrors will we see unfold.
Myocarditis, weaken or compromises immune systems, miscarriages. There have been hundreds of known healthy regular people, athletes, pilots who have just dropped dead after receiving the MANDATED covid Jab.
Dr. Anthony Fauci lied, the lame main stream media was a willing co conspirator in that lie....there were numinous others too and when the butchers bill comes due for it all we will see them squeal like the little pigs they are.
And now evidence that the biden admin KNEW that the covid jab was causing issues as early as November 2022, “statistically significant safety signals for ischemic stroke” in that age group following uptake of the Pfizer bivalent.
The demoRATS push at risk seniors back in to rest-homes and assisted living facility’s so the owner could get paid killing thousands.
This no longer a case of some one needs to get a fine or jail time. There should be arrests, prosecutions with full public trials and executions. There is proof that there was wholesale conspiracy to commit murder.
Now it Can Be Told: The Lives Ruined by the COVID Jab
Archive link:
https://archive.is/HClN7#selection-607.0-607.53
Was literally just talking about these lasting effects last night with my softball team
One guy who works in computer network build-outs and services says he thinks things still have not returned to “normal,” nor will they ever. The covid closure hurt big projects with customers that were “forever cancelled” and both supplier and customers lost employees, etc.. which changed them forever. Entire offices, warehouses, and plants closed and were never re-opened.
Others pointed out that it was a stab in the heart of commercial real estate, which also will never come back.
Totalitarianism on display.
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