Eight Reasons To End The Lockdowns Now
Article publisher:
Zero Hedge
Article date:
13 April 2020
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
CAIRCO Note: This article offers salient points for medical professionals and decisionmakers to consider. It was originally censored by medium.com, and for that reason deserves widespread distribution. See the original article for charts and graphs.
This post does not deny the effectiveness of social distancing or quarantine for COVID-19.
I am not encouraging people to suspend these practices before official determinations have been made public.
This post is to help physicians, thought leaders, and public officials understand and weigh the risks and benefits of extended lockdowns versus more measured and earlier return to work measures.
1. We have already flattened the curve
We have gone from predictions of millions of deaths, to hundreds of thousands and now we are predicting about 60 thousand deaths. This is with the likely over reporting of death. Dr. Birx admitted the attribution of death to COVID-19 has been liberal (her word). If the death count were limited to deaths directly caused by COVID-19, it would likely be even lower than this....
2. Economic collapse and unemployment are destroying families
Each day the shutdown continues, we are losing approximately one million jobs, as evidenced by 16.5 million initial weekly jobless claims in three weeks (since March 26). Many of these lost jobs will never return....
3. We have not saturated the health care system....
Although, the ER and ICU capacity has increased in many locations, overall healthcare system capacity has decreased dramatically, as all non-COVID and non-emergent care is being neglected. This has led to layoffs of healthcare workers and delays in care for countless patients, which will result in a range of negative consequences.....
4. Suicide may kill almost as many people as COVID-19 this year....
5. The mortality was likely overestimated
The IHME model, as well as Dr. Fauci have recently decreased the likely deaths from this pandemic to around 60,000 from earlier estimates of 1–2 million....
6. Children are at almost no risk from this disease....
7. PPE [personal protective equipment] was limited but is now becoming more available...