Three Years In, How Did the Lockdowns Go?
Three years ago this month, a very small group of highly guarded ruling-class people from the UK, US, and Europe, were gathering to figure out how to lock down the country and the world. They held Zoom meetings and went to burner phones and plotted how to convince Trump to betray his own instincts....
None of the rest of us knew this was happening. They knew what was coming but we did not....
The great experiment that had never been tried before. They would shut down the world economy in anticipation of a vaccine that was supposed to end the pandemic. And then, they figured, the whole world would be in debt to Big Pharma forever and we would be permanently acculturated to depend on them for everything. Then we go for vaccine passports and central-bank digital currencies and Big Tech too would ride high forever....
The US was an interesting case because we have a federal system, meaning that even now, individual states can go their own way. Despite everything, the CDC did not have the power to enforce its edict....
Now we have an extremely robust study that looks at all these variables and sizes up the effect in a range of areas. The study is “Freedom Wins: States with Less Restrictive COVID Policies Outperformed States with More Restrictive COVID Policies” by Joel M. Zinberg, Brian Blase, Eric Sun, and Casey B. Mulligan, as published by the Paragon Health Institute....
The conclusion is completely undeniable. Lockdowns were a disaster and they achieved nothing in terms of their stated purpose.
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COVID Response: ‘Despicable Acts of Betrayal’, by Will Alexander, Townhall, 8 February 2023.
Compelling Perspectives on Politicization of the China Virus
The Global Failure of Mask Mandates
Time to stop masking the real science
Antivax Grab-Bag: Memes, Blurbs and Links, by Mike Whitney, Unz Review, 3 March 2023.