Johns Hopkins Study - COVID Lockdowns Futile

“lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” and have “imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”
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Commentary:
People think the issue, lockdowns, is a medical issue but it is not, it is a political one.
If you are a totalitarian at heart you will back lockdowns no matter what, and conversely,
if you are a freedomist you do not want lockdowns no matter what.


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/01/johns-hopkins-university-study-lockdowns-have-had-little-to-no-public-health-effects-imposed-enormous-economic-and-social-costs/

@earl-of-trumps said
“lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” and have “imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”
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Commentary:
People think the issue, lockdowns, is a medical issue but it is not, it is a political one.
If you are a totalitarian at heart you will back lockdowns no matter what, ...[text shortened]... dy-lockdowns-have-had-little-to-no-public-health-effects-imposed-enormous-economic-and-social-costs/

@suzianne said
Is this all the right can talk about today on their talking head broadcasts?

Wildly overblown. Any studies on how many lives they saved?

@earl-of-trumps said
“lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” and have “imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”
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Commentary:
People think the issue, lockdowns, is a medical issue but it is not, it is a political one.
If you are a totalitarian at heart you will back lockdowns no matter what, ...[text shortened]... dy-lockdowns-have-had-little-to-no-public-health-effects-imposed-enormous-economic-and-social-costs/

@earl-of-trumps said
“lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” and have “imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”
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Commentary:
People think the issue, lockdowns, is a medical issue but it is not, it is a political one.
If you are a totalitarian at heart you will back lockdowns no matter what, ...[text shortened]... dy-lockdowns-have-had-little-to-no-public-health-effects-imposed-enormous-economic-and-social-costs/

@jimm619 said
Your reasoning is faulty.....With a new disease,
there are many things that scientists do not know,
THATS WHY THEY DO STUDIES,.......
A natural assumption would be a lockdown to
avoid spreading the virus.......SO NOW,
AFTER THIS STUDY, THEY BETTER UNDERSTAND
What, you think 'lockdowns' are desired BY ANYONE>>??
.............hello?............anyone home

@earl-of-trumps said
“lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” and have “imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”
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Commentary:
People think the issue, lockdowns, is a medical issue but it is not, it is a political one.
If you are a totalitarian at heart you will back lockdowns no matter what, ...[text shortened]... dy-lockdowns-have-had-little-to-no-public-health-effects-imposed-enormous-economic-and-social-costs/

@sleepyguy said
Yes, genius, the one being discussed.

@vivify said
Lockdowns are only as effective as the ability to enforce them. In the U.S. conservatives protested and openly defied lockdowns;. There were protests at the Michigan state capitol involving armed protestors. And so on.

Lockdowns don't work when a large percent of the population won't abide by them.

@suzianne said
Exactly, just like mask mandates, and Trump rallies with nary a mask in sight, like the one that killed Herman Cain.

It should be pointed that the report *only* studied mortality rates. From the study:

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

We only include studies that attempt to establish a relationship (or lack thereof) between lockdown policies and COVID-19 mortality or excess mortality. We exclude studies that use cases, hospitalizations, or other measures.

@mott-the-hoople said
it is called being in denial jimmi42

@jimm619 said
Hardly.............
That's a river in Egypt, right?

@vivify said
It should be pointed that the report *only* studied mortality rates. From the study:

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

[quote]We only include studies that attempt to establish a relationship (or lack thereof) between lockdown policies and COVID-19 mortality or exce ...[text shortened]... lity rates.

Like always, conservatives misrepresent the findings of studies for their own agenda.

@jimm619 said
Who woulda' thought?