Holy Crap. A study by Johns Hopkins concluded that the COVID-19 lockdowns reduced mortality from the pandemic by 0.2%. In other words, indistinguishable from zero. I always suspected the lockdowns did very little. Now we have confirmation from a very reputable source that they actually did absolutely nothing. Yet we hear crickets from all the mainstream media outlets. How is this not the story of the century? The U.S. practically imprisoned it’s citizens in their own homes for nearly a year. Our own government destroyed the life’s work of countless small business owners. Decimated the economy. Did tremendous damage to the education of our children. And caused massive suffering, division, mental anguish, and strife. All for nothing.
I was a huge Donald Trump fan. But he actually did deserve to be impeached. When he turned total control of the country over to a creepy little government bureaucrat with a god complex, it was a gross error in judgement that led to a massive over-reaction imposed with an authoritarian zeal. I think Trump realized his mistake by the fall, but by then the Cult of Fauci was more or less unstoppable. Democrats were so enamored with their covid messiah, they couldn’t possibly attack Trump for needlessly imploding the economy like he deserved to be. Comically, they instead chose to attack Trump for not doing more to turn the United States into a gulag. And they nominated a crusty old dimwit to do exactly that. (Actually, President Pants Load promised to shut down the virus, not the economy. How could a dementia-riddled dullard achieve such a miracle? Because, he is a Democrat, and Democrats are the smart ones. Duh!)
Lockdowns were a complete debacle with no historical precedent or solid scientific rationale. In fact, the whole lockdown concept was developed only recently. It was cooked up during the Bush administration based on the science project of a 15 year-old high school kid. Yet the media still worships their covid oracle without question and relentlessly pushes the government narrative. SCIENCE!