New Study Provides Yet More Evidence That COVID Lockdowns Didn’t Work
“There is no apparent relationship between reduced economic activity during the pandemic and our composite mortality measure,” the authors conclude.
Why is it that we are told to listen to the science except when the science says masks or lockdowns don't work?
There have been a variety of studies that try to measure the effects of wearing different kinds of masks. The same goes for lockdowns. However, if you take the simplest examples and compare, for example, states that had strict lockdown requirements and mandatory mask requirements to those that had only voluntary measures, the outcomes are NOT better for those that were more strict. You can use any excuse that you want but at the end of the day, mandatory mask wearing policies and stricter lockdown policies did not work, period.
Why don't masks work? Could be lots of reasons. Maybe enough people aren't wearing them correctly. Maybe they don't block enough particles to make a difference. Maybe an N95 or better mask is needed. Maybe direct contact is a much bigger factor (meaning washing hands and not touching face would be a bigger factor than masks)...the list goes on. Whatever the reasons, mandates didn't work.
Why don't lockdowns work? Could be lots of reasons too but at the end of the day, unless the lockdowns are absolute, you will be exposed to COVID at some point. All you can hope to accomplish is spreading the cases over a longer period of time. While we know the percentage of people who died due to COVID is about the same in strict lockdown states vs. more free states, it might be interesting to see how the groupings compared. But again, at the end of the day, lockdowns didn't work either.
The Science has spoken.
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The only thing that appears to have worked was the temporary closing of borders to slow the spread of the infection.
I said "temporary" because countries that closed borders appeared to delay the disease a bit. Slowing the spread of an infection should give a country a little bit of time to prepare for an outbreak.