Posted on 06/11/2021 7:15:30 AM PDT by george76
Every single poor person on the face of the earth has faced some harm, sometimes catastrophic harm, from this lockdown policy.”
Stanford University professor of medicine Jay Bhattacharya says that in years to come lockdowns will be looked back upon as the most catastrophically harmful policy in “all of history”.
Speaking on The London Telegraph podcast ‘Planet Normal’, Bhattacharya noted that government scientific advisors “remain attached” to the policy of lockdown in spite of the total “failure of this strategy”.
“I do think that future historians will look back on this and say this was the single biggest public health mistake, possibly of all history, in terms of the scope of the harm that it’s caused,” said Bhattacharya.
The epidemiologist added “Every single poor person on the face of the earth has faced some harm, sometimes catastrophic harm, from this lockdown policy.”
“Almost from the very beginning, lockdown was going to have enormous collateral consequences, things that are sometimes hard to see but are nevertheless real,” Bhattacharya added.
He further noted that serious mental and physical illnesses have been basically ignored and “we closed our eyes to them because we were so scared about the virus and so enamoured with this idea that the lockdown could stop the virus.”
The professor previously told Newsweek that COVID-19 lockdowns are “the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years,” adding that “We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms, imposed on nearly every poor person on the face of the earth, for a generation.”
Bhattacharya is one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which has received thousands of signatures from medical and public health scientists.
The declaration states that “lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health,” citing “worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come.”
Bhattacharya’s latest comments come as the government is warning that England’s lockdown measures could remain in place beyond the supposed “freedom day” on June 21st despite the fact that for 11 out of the last 12 weeks, deaths have been below the 5 year average.
The effects of lockdown have been devastating, with leading cancer charities in the UK warning that there is a crisis underway with huge numbers of people not receiving referrals or treatment because they’ve been told to stay at home and not to burden the National Health Service.
A major new study by German scientists at Munich University has also found that lockdowns had no effect on reducing the country’s coronavirus infection rate.
“Statisticians at Munich University found “no direct connection” between the German lockdown and falling infection rates in the country,” reports the Telegraph.
The findings add to the mountains of research that already exists suggesting that the ‘cure is worse than the problem’ as regards the COVID pandemic.
As we previously reported, Academics from Duke, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins have concluded that there could be around a million excess deaths over the next two decades as a result of lockdowns.
In October, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge said governments should stop enforcing lockdowns, unless as a “last resort,” because the impact on other areas of health and mental well-being is more damaging.
Kluge’s warning matched that of the WHO’s special envoy on COVID-19, Dr David Nabarro, who told the Spectator in an interview that world leaders should stop imposing lockdowns as a reflex reaction because they are making “poor people an awful lot poorer.”
The warnings resonate with numerous other experts who have desperately tried to warn governments that lockdowns will end up killing more people than the virus itself, but have been largely ignored.
Germany’s Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Gerd Muller, recently warned that COVID-19 lockdowns will result in “one of the biggest” hunger and poverty crises in history.
“We expect an additional 400,000 deaths from malaria and HIV this year on the African continent alone,” Muller said, adding that “half a million more will die from tuberculosis.”
Muller’s comments arrived months after a leaked study from inside the German Ministry of the Interior revealed that the impact of the country’s lockdown could end up killing more people than the coronavirus due to victims of other serious illnesses not receiving treatment.
Another study found that lockdowns will conservatively “destroy at least seven times more years of human life” than they save.
Professor Richard Sullivan also warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths in the UK than total coronavirus deaths due to people’s access to screenings and treatment being restricted as a result of the lockdown.
His comments were echoed by Peter Nilsson, a Swedish professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at Lund University, who said, “It’s so important to understand that the deaths of COVID-19 will be far less than the deaths caused by societal lockdown when the economy is ruined.”
According to Professor Karol Sikora, an NHS consultant oncologist, there could be 50,000 excess deaths from cancer as a result of routine screenings being suspended during the lockdown in the UK.
A Guardian analysis has found that there have been thousands of excess deaths of people at home in the UK due to the lockdown.
Infectious diseases expert and University of Edinburgh professor Mark Woolhouse acknowledged that the decision to lockdown the UK last March was a “crude measure” that was enacted because “we couldn’t think of anything better to do.”
Woolhouse said the lockdown was a “panic measure” and a “monumental mistake on a global scale,” adding “I believe the harm lockdown is doing to our education, health care access, and broader aspects of our economy and society will turn out to be at least as great as the harm done by COVID-19.”
As we further previously highlighted, a data analyst consortium in South Africa found that the economic consequences of the country’s lockdown will lead to 29 times more people dying than the coronavirus itself.
Experts have also warned that there will be 1.4 million deaths globally from untreated TB infections due to the lockdown.
In addition, a study published in The Lancet that notes “physical distancing, school closures, trade restrictions, and country lockdowns” are worsening global child malnutrition.
Thousands of doctors and scientists are also on record as opposing lockdown measures, warning that they will cause more death than the coronavirus itself.
The far left will say it was worth it.
They took the Trump economy, which was setting records in all positive areas, including record low Black/Hispanic, and derailed it. They put the world into recession, which brought the election within the margin of fraud so they could steal our White House. That’s a big win for freedom’s enemies.
No, The horrors of world war three will make this Lockdown seem like a walk in the park. History will tell the tale and it will not be a political ideologic push.
Think how many people believe the bullshit I mean I have pictures of the dolomite region of Italy and people were in Troy cornered hatch and those pelican beaks
While ox carts came by
Liars
And the way they treated the medicine got people killed by not taking it particularly hydroxychloroquine which by the way I gave away nearly 1000 doses on this very foreign to people because I had a huge stash and Z packs
I took the medicine to Texas for my 85 -year-old aunt and uncle and it’s saved their life he was in bad shape before he got the medicine we drove over
They should be held accountable but they never are
one day they may be held accountable by bullets and I know people don’t like to hear that but what the hell else are we going to do just put up with this forever
Not to mention how these democrat cities shoved all the sick people into nursing homes and nothing will happen to them thousand people died for nothing it’s like Steve Bannon says we have to have justice over COVID-19 Wuhan and the stolen election
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This is the crucible
Maybe YOU are angry, with yourself, for giving so many experimental and unproven shots....that are now having enough adverse effects to warrant an emergency meeting (FINALLY!) to discuss damages done.
But, I highly doubt that, as collateral damage seems to be perfectly fine with the vax pushers....everywhere.
Are you okay with 5,000 deaths and hundreds of heart inflammation cases, caused by your shots?
Was the clinic that you gave ‘1,000’ experimental shots at, a government clinic?
A simple yes or no will suffice.
See 38 and 45.
Let’s examine some things:
1) There was an initial infection mostly in the US Northeast about April of last year. Death count rose, peaked and declined until early July. So, we ask why did it decline.
2) A popular answer is viruses have been around forever, they arrive, they do damage, and natural response by people defeats it.
3)Another popular answer is 6 foot separation, staying off airplanes and buses, and maybe even masks created the decline. I won’t say lockdowns so we don’t lose focus.
4) There is a problem with 2) above. Odds look high there is nothing natural about the virus. It was lab created. So there’s no reason to presume natural defense would work against an unnatural virus.
5) So the decline occurred because of mitigation measures? Let’s go with maybe on that. Let’s also note the decline from the peak in December was before any significant number of vaccines were out. The decline was well established and under way both in May of last year, and early January of this year.
6) Bottom line, this winter will tell the tale.
It was a six year cataclysm humanity barely survived.
flr
This topic was posted , thanks george76.
Sure, it's one more modern history topic, but whatever is next, it'll be ancient.
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