Posted on 02/12/2021 4:14:18 PM PST by george76
We will be paying for lockdown — in lives and dollars for decades to come.'..
While there are likely many Canadian doctors who quietly agree that lockdowns as a cure for stopping the spread of coronavirus may be worse in the long run than the virus, some doctors have risked their reputations by publicly warning policymakers just how damaging lockdowns may prove to be. The following three doctors are especially noteworthy in this regard.
Alberta heart surgeon..
Alberta retired heart surgeon Dennis L. Modry, BSc, MD, MSc, FRCS, FACCP, FACS, criticized Premier Jason Kenney in a Dec. 11 open letter for imposing lockdown measures that “severely limit and, in some cases, shut down entirely many social, family, friendship, spiritual, recreational and entertainment pursuits that Albertans rely on for their well-being.”
Modry, who is a clinical associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Alberta as well as the founder and director of the heart, lung and heart-lung transplant program, said the major tenet of the Hippocratic Oath that physicians adhere to of doing “no harm” is “ignored” by imposed lock downs.
“I acknowledge with reverence those Albertans who have passed on from COVID-19, just as I acknowledge many others like Jerry Dunham who have died because lockdowns prevented their access to health care for very serious non-COVID-19 illnesses and conditions. I acknowledge the many with despair who have died from suicide and drug overdose.”
Modry said there is mounting evidence that “lockdowns are more lethal than COVID-19,” pointing to a December 2020 paper from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms making the case that delayed medical treatment, delayed or cancelled diagnosis, suicide, and drug overdose are causing a significant death toll. Academics from Harvard, Duke, and Johns Hopkins universities released a paper in December 2020 in which they claimed that COVID lockdowns would result in a “staggering” one million excess deaths over the next decade-and-a-half in the United States alone due to a spike of health-related issues caused by unemployment.
Modry recommended that the province reopen with “conventional pre-COVID-19 precautions.”
Interventions such as total lockdowns, social distancing, and compulsory mask use are causing more harm than good. The genie (virus) is out of the bottle and the spread cannot realistically be controlled at all by the current interventions,” he said.
Ontario’s former chief medical officer..
Ontario’s former top doctor told Premier Doug Ford in a Jan. 18 open letter that lockdowns are “misguided efforts to control COVID” and are “only compounding the tragedy.”
Dr. Richard Schabas, who served as Ontario’s chief medical officer of health from 1987 to 1997 and who was chief of staff at York Central Hospital during the SARS crisis in 2003, told Ford that lockdowns are not supported by “strong science” and were never part of the province’s “planned pandemic response.”
“Lockdown has been used by almost every developed country and, in the great majority of cases, the lack of response speaks for itself. Two recent studies on the effectiveness of lockdowns show that it has, at most, a small COVID mortality benefit compared to more moderate measures. Both studies warn about the excessive cost of lockdown,” Schabas wrote in his letter.
Schabas pointed out that there are “significant costs to lockdowns” that are often overlooked, such as “lost education, unemployment, social isolation, deteriorating mental health and compromised access to health care.”
“Lockdown is an affront to social justice because its burdens fall disproportionately on the young, the working poor and visible minorities. We will be paying for lockdown — in lives and dollars for decades to come,” the doctor wrote.
Medical specialist in pathology and virology..
Dr. Roger Hodkinson, a medical specialist in pathology and virology, a former chairman of the examination committee in general pathology for the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and current chairman of a biotechnology company in North Carolina selling COVID-19 tests, told the Edmonton City Council in a Nov. 13 meeting that “media and politicians” are responsible for “utterly unfounded public hysteria” over COVID-19.
“There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus, other than protecting older, more vulnerable people. It should be thought of as nothing more than a bad flu season,” he said.
“There is no action of any kind needed other than what happened last year when we felt unwell. We stayed home, we took chicken noodle soup, we didn’t visit granny, and we decided when we would return to work. We didn’t need anyone to tell us.”
Hodkinson criticized masks and social distancing to stop the spread of the virus as “useless,” pointing out that there is no real science to back up such protocols.
He pointed to the unintended consequences of the lockdowns.
“The scale of the response that you are undertaking with no evidence for it is utterly ridiculous given the consequences of acting in a way that you’re proposing. All kinds of suicides, business closures … It’s simply outrageous.”
“Everywhere should be opened tomorrow as was stated in the Great Barrington Declaration,” he said at one point during his talk.
Hodkinson said that politics playing medicine is a “very dangerous game.”
“You should be totally out of the business of medicine,” he told the politicians.
Plea to allow the healthy to resume normal life...
The Great Barrington Declaration, signed by almost 55,000 medical practitioners and medical and public health scientists, raises “grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies.”
The signers call upon policymakers to allow those who are less vulnerable to COVID-19 to be “allowed to resume life as normal.”
“Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short- and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice,” the declaration states.
The declaration was authorized and signed in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on Oct. 4 by Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University who is a biostatistician and epidemiologist with an expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, a professor at Oxford University who is an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford University Medical School who is a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert who focuses on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.
“Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity,” the statement concluded.
How long before they are cancelled?
And all that to possibly save some 85 year olds who likely were already at death's doorstep.
And for those who say "how dare Gay State Conservative be so dismissive of the lives of the elderly" *I* have been told by my doctor that I'm at huge risk because of my age.
Uh oh. Don’t make Turdo come after you, docs!
... a risky thing to do in our current political climate of totalitarian leftist politicians who know better than anyone how to run everyone's lives and are willing to use any means to destroy anyone who defies them.
Change my mind!
Excellent question.
In Michigan, the power hungry shrew Gretchen Whitmer threatened to to take away hair cutting licenses of salon owners who cut hair on the side during the lockdown.
Then, some Michigan doctors discussed a study showing encouraging results for the tablets in treatment of early stage of Covid, Whitmer threatened to have their medical licenses to practice in Michigan cancelled! She issued an order preventing the hospitals from using the treatment. Because Trump had promoted the treatment and anything Trump does has to be crushed. In very lowest place in her interest is what is good for the patients.
The London Imperial model predicted 2.2 million dead Americans and 500,000 dead Brits if we didn’t lock down. You can say it was an incorrect computer model, but they have a HISTORY of bad disease models.
2005
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke
Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.
Real death toll? Maybe 200,000. 1000x mistake
2002
‘Mad Cow’ Sheep in Britain Could Increase the Human Death Toll
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mad-cow-sheep-in-britain/
Neil M. Ferguson and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, considered three possible scenarios. In the best case, BSE does not spread within or between flocks and therefore has a negligable impact on the vCJD epidemic. But at worst, BSE spreads wildly both within and between flocks and raises the vCJD toll from a maximum of 50,000 to 100,000 deaths due to infected cattle alone to a combined total of as many as 150,000 deaths.
Real death toll? 50-ish. 1000x mistake.
This means that liberals in power CHOOSE to use a disease modeler with a HISTORY of being WILDLY wrong.
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