Posted on 12/27/2020 6:13:31 AM PST by cutty
Proponents of lockdowns have continuously touted lockdowns as the way to curb the virus. When faced with the obvious economic damage caused by the lockdown, they in turn do not take time to point out that we cannot sacrifice lives for the economy. However, more and more evidence shows that lockdowns do more than harm the economy. And in reality, recessions have a damaging effect on length and quality of life.
A lot of evidence points to the health impacts of lockdowns especially on the mental health of young adults as well as children. And just recently a new study has evidence proving that lockdowns could actually be 10 times more harmful to public health than not locking down. According to the authors of the report, Ari Joffe,
The decision to adopt repeated or prolonged lockdown measures cannot be based on COVID-19 numbers alone. Instead, we need to better recognize the risks and trade-offs inherent in our public health measures against COVID.
We see by the impact that the response to controlling the COVID-19 has had on other public health sectors, that people did not take into account other health effects from locking down. In rich countries like the US and UK, for example,
Fear of attending hospitals resulted in 50 percent declines in visits for heart attacks and strokes, meaning missed opportunity for time-critical treatments. ‘Non-urgent’ surgery and cancer diagnosis/treatment were delayed, with backlogs that will take years of catch-up and untold effects on prognoses. Of excess mortality during the pandemic, 20-50 percent has not been due to COVID-19 (see Kontis et al. 2020; Docherty et all 2020; and Postill et al 2020); much of that excess is likely attributable to these collateral effects. An unexplained increase in deaths of people with dementia in the US and UK also likely arose from deterioration due to loneliness. Over time, suicide, depression, alcohol use disorder, childhood trauma due to domestic violence, changes in marital status, and social isolation are projected to cause millions of years of life lost in Canada alone.
To measure a more accurate cost-benefit analysis of locking down, Ari Joffe uses the measure Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY), whereby QALY is the “sum of years lived by the population, weighted by the health quality of those years.” Health is a combination of the length of life as well as the quality of life. And lockdowns even though they have saved lives, have had a detrimental effect on the quality of life of numerous individuals.
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So, with numerous factors taken into account, the study finds that the global cost of the lockdown came to about 250 million QALY while only saving roughly 25 million QALY. This is after assuming reduced government expenditure on determinants of wellbeing due to the recession caused by the lockdown. Thus by focusing merely on controlling down one disease with lockdowns, at the expense of other determinants of well-being, lawmakers have done 10 times more damage to public health than if they had not locked down.
Gee, no kidding?
President Trump told us this, MONTHS ago.
Call me cynical but if lockdowns were so successful, why are we doing them again? We’ve already done the lockdown thing and the virus is still here.
Dem governors don’t care who it hurts.
“...lawmakers have done 10 times more damage to public health than if they had not locked down.”
Frankly, I’m surprised any of us are still here. Mother Government has been trying to kill me and/or ruin my life since The Carter Administration!
The leftists and fear mongers are too stupid to see that since there is 96% mask compliance and supposedly the case count is rising, obviously masks are useless.
Duh. Only people that have 0 knowledge in economics and a complete lack of common sense could believe that putting people out of work, eventually out of their homes and leaving them destitute is better than getting the Chinese flu.
Then destroy their health mentally and physically in every way imaginable. The only benefit to any of this is that you MIGHT NOT get the Chinese flu.
The fundamental concept of a quarantine is useless once a virus is out in the wild.
I have come to believe a lot of terrible things in the year 2020, and one of them is that there exists a class of people who call themselves Americans, who have used this virus as a tool to further political goals.
Or just to abuse power because they can.
Lockdowns promote irrational fear, destroys small businesses (mostly run by conservatives) that are then forced to lay off workers, closes churches .. unconstitutional lockdowns promote the deep state , Marxist reset..
Not about stopping a virus
But what about the science?
Lockdowns have nothing to do with public health and everything to do with Marxism. Marx mistakenly believed that the proletariat would rise up against the bourgeoisie - small business owners. That wasn’t happening, so the ruling class had to step in and destroy small business. In addition, Marxist thought is that it must be worldwide - that no other form of government could be allowed to exist. What better way to accomplish this simultaneously in all nations than a global pandemic? Marxism is a load of lies, and unless it isn’t rooted out soon the result will be worldwide famine.
This was NEVER about public health.
The only thing ANY politicians care about is how it will affect their hold on power.
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master–that’s all’
“We’ve already done the lockdown thing and the virus is still here.”
yeah, and despite the entire world population wearing masks, the infection rate is sustained and triple what it was during the original shut down.
You can’t have a “great reset” if people are allowed to own things like businesses. Next we need to get them out of their cars and houses
I wonder if he remained in the motor home and committed suicide there?
They were *almost* successful.
The middle-class ownership economy was *almost* wiped out.
Got to do more to finish the job.
(Yeah, I’m pissed.)
Lockdown was meant to gain control of America, nothing else.
The covid gave the left the opportunity to do everything they wanted to do with climate change but quicker. And people were actually dying making it more immediate than dire warnings about sea level rising and warmer temperatures. Now that the government has exercised dictatorial power it’s not going to be inclined to relinquish it. Life will probably never return to normal lest the bourgeoisie recover its political clout.
Just to keep things in perspective, USSA is a Russian information (not DISinformation) farm. They use real provable information to sow discord in the U.S.
This farm feeds us right wingers. I’m sure Putin maintains an analogue on the Left.
I’m not suggesting they use lies. I’m suggesting one take care understanding the source and its motivations.
The Karens & Fearpers will be very upset with you posting this! They do not like facts or non-conformity.
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