The COVID lockdown scolds killed people — but they still have no shame

NYPost ^ | 4/24/23 | Glenn Reynolds

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“You horrible scolds killed people. You should be forever ashamed.”

That was the reaction of a friend on Facebook to a new University of Virginia Health study showing suicide attempts by overdose among children rose sharply during the pandemic. And, of course, he’s right.

It was about three years ago that we were told we should lock things down for “two weeks to slow the spread.”

The initial argument seemed plausible — shutter for a bit to slow transmission of the Chinese coronavirus now known as COVID-19 just enough that hospitals and other health-care facilities could handle the surge.

Would a two-week lockdown have helped? We don’t know because we got something closer to two years.

Or longer: Though evidence that mandatory masking worked was somewhere between skimpy and nonexistent, we only this year saw experts finally calling for an end to mask requirements in health-care facilities, among other measures.

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Glenn Reynolds is one of those rare breeds of conservative law professors. He is owner of the site Instapundit which is always a good source of news and information with a following of readers who can be depended upon for adding memes and amusing comments to the articles.

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He may be a rare breed of conservative law professor, but he confesses he is stupid when he says “The initial argument seemed plausible — shutter for a bit to slow transmission of the Chinese coronavirus just enough that hospitals and other health-care facilities could handle the surge.”

“Two weeks to slow the spread” was and is utterly ridiculous.

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“The damage ranges from the “shocking” increase in LGBTQ intimate partner violence that a Rutgers study found, to a rise in sex attacks on teen girls, to a major decline in cancer screenings, to an “unprecedented” drop in teen mental health, to a dramatic loss in kids’ school learning, which remedial attempts have been unsuccessful in reversing. Even bar exam scores suffered.”

Basically, put everyone in prison for two years, then act surprised when they start displaying the pathologies of convicts.

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there’s considerable evidence they caused increased numbers of deaths from heart attacks, obesity, mental-health problems, drug overdoses and the like.

Not to mention the deaths caused by the medical malpractice of "COVID protocols".

There are thousands of people who deserve to hang, or spend most of the rest of their lives in prison for what they did, and millions and millions of people who should hang their heads in shame for the way they behaved, and the way they cheered on the vilification and shaming of people who were smarter and more grounded than they were.

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Yet at least as of last week when I was there, the same University of Virginia forces people to wear stupid masks at their hospital. (I ignored their dumb rule about 90% of the time. 100% if they realized I was wearing a mesh fake mask.)