Final word: Update from La Quinta Columna – what’s really in the Covid Jabs – [October 2022] (bitchute.com)
C19 did turn out not be the ‘the biggest event of our lifetimes, or bigger than Hiroshima, the Asian tsunami and the Islamic State’, definitely other than the regulator response to C19 by the medical-
political-pharmaceutical complex.
Nothing learned?
11/02/22
3 Reasons the Official COVID Narrative Is Falling Apart
It’s becoming ever more clear that the major, most influential health authorities around the world are now blatantly lying to the public, given the current status of scientific and medical information.
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By Rob Verkerk, Ph.D.
It’s becoming ever more clear that the major, most influential health authorities around the world are now blatantly lying to the public, given the current status of scientific and medical information.
Why do I say this?
The answer is simple: because the most influential health authorities are communicating to the public, both in words and in actions, the view that COVID-19 “vaccines” are “safe and effective” when the totality of available evidence suggests otherwise.
Let me explain.
Shouting from the webpage of what is the world’s largest “health system,” the U.K.’s National Health Service, is the statement below, in bold text, declaring the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 “vaccines.”
The following screengrab was taken Oct. 27:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, like so many others, parrots the same information, using bold text for emphasis in the new, lockstep tradition.
The following screengrab was also taken Oct. 27:
It is widely acknowledged that the proportion of proven cases of injury from COVID-19 vaccines is currently very small compared with the total number of doses administered. But this metric is not sufficient to declare a product as safe.
After all, society seems quite happy to deem a children’s toy unsafe even if there is just a theoretical risk of injury — let alone a demonstrated one that has led to death or permanent injury.
The Oxford Dictionary tells us that a product that is safe is one that is “free from hurt or damage.” The Cambridge Dictionary offers a similar meaning: “not in danger or likely to be harmed.” Obviously, there are some harms that are inevitable and would be readily accepted by most who were being offered an injectable medicine, even saline.
These minor harms include common reactions caused by the breach of the skin by the hypodermic needle or even the risk of fainting from “needle phobia.” Then there are nocebo responses that might include headache or fatigue.
But that’s not what we’re talking about here. What’s much more relevant is the rapidly building evidence base that shows substantial differences in severe reactions between injecting a placebo and the real thing.
Sadly and to confuse the wider picture — quite probably deliberately — some of the clinical trials have not been conducted with saline controls, but rather with other vaccines or with mixtures of adjuvants.
This aside, let’s look at two pieces of relatively recent evidence from available data that any court would likely find hard to ignore, that demonstrate the COVID-19 “vaccines” should not and cannot be regarded as safe based on clear-cut differences between treatment and placebo arm results.
Study 1: Haas et al., Journal of the American Medical Association (January 2022)
The first is a comprehensive meta-analysis of 12 clinical trials published in January this year in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study was led by Julia Haas from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and among the 8 author-strong team was senior author, Ted Kaptchuk, from Harvard Medical School. This is not a marginalized journal, nor a marginalized or discredited authorship.
The findings show a clear and pronounced, statistically significant elevation in severity and number of adverse events in those receiving the COVID-19 vaccines (mRNA, adenoviral vector and protein subunit types), compared with those receiving controls — especially after the second of two doses included in the trials.
That’s it — it should be GAME OVER for any claim that the COVID-19 vaccines are “safe.”
A second study in a major high-impact journal should make it not just GAME OVER but a SLAM DUNK. Turns out there is at least one. In fact, there are many more; I have simply been selective in providing two composite studies (meta-analyses) that in turn include many other studies.
Study 2: Fraiman et al., Vaccine (September 2022)
The authorship of the second study I’ve selected is equally star-studded, including leading researchers from UCLA, Stanford and the University of Maryland, the latter including as its senior (last) author, Peter Doshi, also a senior editor at The BMJ.
What these authors did was painfully tease apart available data from the phase 3 trials that Pfizer and Moderna used to gain their emergency use authorizations (EUAs).
The authors found a consistent trend for significantly greater risks for serious adverse events in the COVID-19 “vaccine” arms compared with placebos, the risk ratios being between 1.36 and 1.57 times greater in the “vaccine” arms for those adverse events defined as being of “special interest.”
These include criteria developed specifically for COVID-19 vaccines by the Brighton Collaboration, and have been agreed upon by the World Health Organization.
The common clotting and heart health issues we see around us today were actually concealed in the data reviewed by the likes of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the European Medicines Agency at the time the EUAs were issued.
They were just ignored by the regulators. That includes the coagulation disorders, acute cardiac injuries and the myocarditis/pericarditis issues that all jumped off the journal pages.
Joseph Fraiman and colleagues, the authors of the study, had difficulty getting to the bottom of the data in these trials given that both Pfizer and Moderna kept protocols secret and failed to make public individual participant data.
They decided to publish the letter they sent to Albert Bourla and Stéphane Bancel, the respective CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna, in a Rapid Response to The BMJ in August, raising their concerns over non-transparency. We drew attention to this major problem in 2020, here and here.
Damning stuff — yet not even a squeak from the vaccine confidence brigade. Punch in (as I just have) “Doshi” in the search bar of The Vaccine Confidence Project and you’ll find zero hits.
Then follow this by plugging in “Offit,” as in Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, also a long-term vaccine protagonist, albeit one who has been voicing caution over COVID-19 vaccines to healthy youngsters.
You’ll find multiple pages of hits when you use Offit’s name. Have they not worked out that it’s this kind of illogic and imbalance that adds to our lack of confidence?
What was concealed from view in the Phase 3 trials, is the disturbing picture of the spectrum of neurological injury that we are now witnessing from the real-world, population-wide roll-out that appears to be linked to COVID-19 vaccines, albeit not commonly, but predictably uncommonly.
Then there are suggestions of increasing cancer incidence, this inevitably clouded by cancer cases among those who didn’t receive standard care during the lockdowns as well as emerging evidence of natural killer and T cell exhaustion following repeat COVID-19 “vaccination.”
Even more challenging will be deconstruction of the long-term complications caused by this new technology that will inevitably be delayed in time post-vaccination and become ever more difficult to unwrap as people get exposed to more shots while the virus continues to circulate and infect people.
High on the watch list are fertility, autoimmune conditions and the smorgasbord of chronic, degenerative diseases associated with aging populations, especially in industrialized countries.
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Are COVID ‘vaccines’ unavoidably unsafe?
U.S. courts established some 40 years ago (e.g., here and here) that traditional vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe.” The precedent set the scene for vaccine makers to seek indemnity from governments, which would then make the vaccine makers immune from prosecution in the event of no-fault (i.e., non-negligent) injury.
Compensation would then be available in cases where causation of vaccine injury could be proven. That was the theory.
Those of us who have been aware of these issues for many years know just how difficult it is to prove causation.
But those who know it even better are the vaccine injured themselves as they often spend years, at huge personal cost, attempting to work their way on behalf of loved ones through the compensation schemes in different countries.
More often than not they’re spat out of the process and left to contend with life-changing injuries without any state support.
Disturbingly, given that so many of us have now been exposed to the virus, it’s also easy for authorities to try disguising COVID-19 “vaccine” harms under the general HEADING of “long COVID.”
In the U.K. alone, the Office for National Statistics estimates that as of Sept. 3, 2.3 million people are “living in private households who are experiencing self-reported long COVID symptoms.”
Aside from the issue of conflating “vaccine” and virus-induced harms, the current data reported even by official sources are pointing to an emerging problem of an unprecedented scale.
Official data associated with COVID-19 shots in the USA, as reported by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), as summarized on OpenVAERS.com, currently reveals:
- 59,127 permanently disabled
- 34,492 life-threatening injuries
- 31,569 deaths
- 53,302 reported cases of myocarditis/pericarditis
- 180,915 hospitalizations
Let’s get some perspective on these figures using another very common and widely utilized technology: the motor car. The number of people who died in the USA from motor vehicle accidents, 40,698 in 2018, is in the same order as the VAERS figure for COVID-19 vaccines.
However, the VAERS figure is widely considered to be an underestimate of the real figure, with Pantazatos and Seligmann (2021) suggesting the reported number of adverse events might just represent 5% of the total.
But even if we stick to the official numbers, how can we consider COVID-19 “vaccines” to be safe? We, as in society generally, do not consider motor vehicles to be intrinsically safe. They are intrinsically, or unavoidably, unsafe.
That’s why society has seen fit to instigate a bunch of processes that aim to make them safer, from the design of the vehicles to the licensing of drivers, to the creation of safer cars and roads, and of course, the creation of laws, supported by human and robotic enforcement, that attempt to ensure safer (but not entirely safe) driving and road use.
The shots on the other hand are administered by people who say the products they are administering are safe, with no hint that they might lead to death or permanent injury, despite this being a real, albeit low probability, consequence.
There is no admittance that the manufacturers, like car manufacturers, should be pressured into making safer COVID-19 vaccines.
It seems we’re meant to blindly accept what they’ve produced at breakneck speed — and just lump it (that means accepting and paying for injuries, given we, the taxpayers, fund the government indemnity programs).
It’s not just the relentless use of the word “safe” by authorities and so-called “health systems” — it’s also their actions.
Right up there has to be the fact that they are deemed safe enough to administer to our most vulnerable, including babies as young as 6 months and pregnant women. Which pregnant woman or new mother gets to sign a consent form that asks her to accept possible harms or future fertility impacts on her unborn child or baby? None, it seems.
The effectiveness claim used in the mantra “safe and effective” is also dubious. But it’s tougher to argue against given the health authorities could say, as they have done, that they have elsewhere qualified what they mean.
This would include suggesting that effectiveness is measured only over short durations such as 6 months or less, and it now refers to the protection against severe disease and death, not to the ability of the product to stop transmission from human to human (the usual intended purpose of vaccines).
Accordingly, let’s not open this can of worms right now.
Cracks in the narrative
Amidst the bleak background of COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced harms is some light; light that’s breaking through the cracks in the narrative. The sands are now definitely shifting, with increasing numbers who were previously steadfast advocates of the unquestionable safety of COVID-19 “vaccines” doing U-turns.
That’s mainly a function of the available science and the fact so many have either directly experienced adverse effects or know people close to them who have.
I sense that the authorities as well as the media and tech companies that are trying to control the message and sideline dissent through censorship and manipulation of messaging using behavioral science have underestimated the power of experience.
Let me give you three important areas where these cracks are appearing.
The first is the science — and I’ve given you earlier in this article examples of two big studies in big journals by authors from big-name institutions. That’s a far cry from early-mid 2021 when these signals could only be found in studies on preprint servers and occasionally in minor journals.
For good measure, an article in Science — one of the most influential scientific journals in the world — caught my eye when it was published some 10 days ago.
It’s not a study but it’s an insight piece that provides a perspective on the elevated risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination based on widely published data (i.e., it will inevitably underestimate risks).
Included in the article are quotes from mainstream experts, including Paul Offit, who do not recommend boosters to children or healthy people under 65.
Also, the notion of previously undescribed post-vaccination syndrome linked specifically to COVID-19 vaccines, as explained by Josef Finsterer from the Neurology and Neurophysiology Center in Vienna, Austria, is entering the mainstream medical community.
Mainstream doctors often won’t have any idea of how to treat it having no pre-set pathway established by their health systems. But they’ve often seen too many cases that have been temporally associated with vaccination to continue to deny what they are observing.
The second area where cracks are appearing is among politicians. Take the latest All Party Parliamentary Group on Covid-19 Vaccine Damage that we reported on separately on Oct. 27. And a stunning change in view is that of Danielle Smith, the 19th premier of Alberta, Canada, who only took office on Oct. 11.
Responding to a question from a journalist at Rebel News, Ms. Smith replied:
“I’m deeply sorry for anyone who was inappropriately subjected to discrimination as a result of their vaccination status. I am deeply sorry for any government employee who was fired from their job because of their vaccine status. I’d welcome them back if they wanted to come back.”
That’s a full 360-degree turnaround on premier Smith’s predecessor. You can see her full response at a press conference here.
A government data leak in Australia reported on Oct. 26 by Sky News Australia revealed the Australian government is budgeting for an 80-fold increase in COVID-19 vaccine injury payments, to nearly $77 million for 2023. That will be mana to some politicians, no doubt.
A third area is the recognition of a corrupt or broken system by mainstream players. Take what America’s top litigator for vaccine injury cases has said about the prospects for COVID-19 vaccine injury claims.
In June 2021, Maglio told Reuters, not some local rag or even the Epoch Times, that “the current system for handling COVID-related claims is different [from previous systems] — and not in a good way.”
There’s a statement on the website of Maglio’s law firm, Maglio Christopher & Toale, that is likely deeply disheartening to many victims of COVID-19 “vaccine” injury:
“We have concluded that there is nothing our attorneys can do to help you in filing a claim in the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.”
When both the top law firm dealing with the U.S. “vaccine court” and Reuters agree there is a “black hole” for COVID-19 vaccine injury claims, to use Reuters’ own words, that means the main players, not just those disheveled conspiracy theorist types, recognize the system has been manipulated to work against the public interest.
More to the point, to favor a protected class — the people who profit from making these new “vaccine” technologies that are being trialed on humans as if they were experimental guinea pigs. While making it ever harder for those injured to be compensated for the damage that can be guaranteed to occur.
As disgusting as that is, it’s also just the stuff that causes people to say, you know what; I’m going to stop buying into the stuff those health authorities are feeding us, including the fact they’re claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are safe. They wonder why we distrust governments and why politics in many countries has become something of a circus.
Originally published by Alliance for Natural Health International.
Rob Verkerk, Ph.D., is the founder and executive & scientific director of Alliance for Natural Health International.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.
In hindsight: Covid interferences by the States.
More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions by Paul Alexander
Lockdown lessons, Ross, 2021
“Never take radical action without overwhelming evidence that it will work. The authorities took all manner of drastic actions and weren’t the least bit interested in offering evidence and they still aren’t.
Unelected bureaucrats, who know nothing about us, dictated how we live our lives down to the tiniest details.
The authorities coerced hundreds of millions of people to wear masks. They assumed that would reduce transmission.
There is now evidence that masks are worse than useless. Bé extremely reluctant to commit sweeping violations of the Constitution. The Constitution is our country’s greatest asset and our north star.
Ignoring it or trampling on it is never a good idea. The Constitution is what makes us who we are.
We ought to treat it like the treasure it is. Always consider both costs and benefits and make best-effort
projections of both. The costs of virtually every aspect of the lockdown were more than the benefits, usually far more…it has increased the amount of depression and number of suicides, especially among those age 18 and younger.
The postponement and cancellation of medical appointments have resulted in thousands of premature deaths.”
December 1, 2021
The great body of evidence (comparative research studies and high-quality pieces of evidence and reporting judged to be relevant to this analysis) shows that COVID-19 lockdowns, shelter-in-place policies, masks, school closures, and mask mandates have failed in their purpose of curbing transmission or reducing deaths. These restrictive policies were ineffective and devastating failures, causing immense harm especially to the poorer and vulnerable within societies.
Nearly all governments have attempted compulsory measures to control the virus, but no government can claim success. The research indicates that mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories.
Bendavid reported “in the framework of this analysis, there is no evidence that more restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (‘lockdowns’) contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, or the United States in early 2020.” We’ve known this for a very long time now, but governments continue to double down, causing misery upon people with ramifications that will likely take decades or more to repair.
The benefits of the societal lockdowns and restrictions have been totally exaggerated and the harms to our societies and children have been severe: the harms to children, the undiagnosed illness that will result in excess mortality in years to come, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation in our young people, drug overdoses and suicides due to the lockdown policies, the crushing isolation due to the lockdowns, psychological harms, domestic and child abuse, sexual abuse of children, loss of jobs and businesses and the devastating impact, and the massive numbers of deaths resulting from the lockdowns that will impact heavily on women and minorities.
Now we have whispers again for the new lockdowns in response to the Omicron variant that, by my estimations, will be likely infectious but not more lethal.
How did we get here? We knew that we could never eradicate this mutable virus (that has an animal reservoir) with lockdowns and that it would likely become endemic like other circulating common cold coronaviruses. When we knew an age-risk stratified approach was optimal (focused protection as outlined in the Great Barrington Declaration) and not carte blanche policies when we had evidence of a 1,000-fold differential in risk of death between a child and an elderly person. We knew of the potency and success of early ambulatory outpatient treatment in reducing the risk of hospitalization and death in the vulnerable.
It was clear very early on that Task Forces and medical advisors and decision-makers were not reading the evidence, were not up to speed with the science or data, did not understand the evidence, did not ‘get’ the evidence, and were blinded to the science, often driven by their own prejudices, biases, arrogance, and ego. They remain ensconced in sheer academic sloppiness and laziness. It was clear that the response was not a public health one.
It was a political one from day one and continues today.
A recent study (pre-print) captures the essence and catastrophe of a lockdown society and the hollowing out of our children by looking at how children learn (3 months to 3 years old) and finding across all measures that “children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic.” Researchers also reported that “males and children in lower socioeconomic families have been most affected. Results highlight that even in the absence of direct SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 illness, the environmental changes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is significantly and negatively affecting infant and child development.”
Perhaps Donald Luskin of the Wall Street Journal best captures what we have stably witnessed since the start of these unscientific lockdowns and school closures: “Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy. The results are in.
Counterintuitive though it may be, statistical analysis shows that locking down the economy didn’t contain the disease’s spread and reopening it didn’t unleash a second wave of infections.”
The British Columbia Center for Disease Control (BCCDC) issued a full report in September 2020 on the impact of school closures on children and found para “that i) children comprise a small proportion of diagnosed COVID-19 cases, have less severe illness, and mortality is rare ii) children do not appear to be a major source of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in households or schools, a finding which has been consistent globally iii) there are important differences between how influenza and SARS-CoV-2 are transmitted. School closures may be less effective as a prevention measure for COVID-19 iv) school closures can have severe and unintended consequences for children and youth v) school closures contribute to greater family stress, especially for female caregivers, while families balance childcare and home learning with employment demands vi) family violence may be on the rise during the COVID pandemic, while the closure of schools and childcare center’s may create a gap in the safety net for children who are at risk of abuse and neglect.”
Now places like Austria (November 2021) have re-entered the world of lockdown lunacy only to be outmatched by
Australia. Indeed, an illustration of the spurious need for these ill-informed actions is that they are being
done in the face of clear scientific evidence showing that during strict prior societal lockdowns, school
lockdowns, mask mandates, and additional societal restrictions, the number of positive cases went up!
The pandemic response today remains a purely political one.
What follows is the current totality of the body of evidence (available comparative studies and high-level pieces of evidence, reporting, and discussion) on COVID-19 lockdowns, masks, school closures, and mask mandates.
There is no conclusive evidence supporting claims that any of these restrictive measures worked to reduce viral transmission or deaths. Lockdowns were ineffective, school closures were ineffective, mask mandates were ineffective, and masks themselves were and are ineffective and harmful.
Table 1: Evidence showing that COVID-19 lockdowns, use of face masks, school closures, and mask mandates were largely ineffective and caused crushing harms
Study/report title, author, and year published and interactive url link Predominant study/evidence report
finding
LOCKDOWNS
1) Lockdown Effects on Sars-CoV-2 Transmission – The evidence from Northern Jutland, Kepp, 2021 “Analysis shows that while infection levels decreased, they did so before lockdown was effective, and infection numbers also decreased in Neighbour municipalities without mandates…direct spill-over to Neighbour municipalities or the simultaneous mass testing do not explain this…data suggest that efficient infection surveillance and voluntary compliance make full lockdowns unnecessary.”
2) A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes, Chaudhry, 2020 “Analysis was conducted to assess the impact of timing and type of national health policy/actions undertaken towards COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes…low levels of national preparedness, scale of testing and population characteristics were associated with increased national case load and overall mortality….in our analysis, full lockdowns and wide-spread COVID-19 testing were not associated with reductions in the number of critical cases or overall mortality.”
3) Full lockdown policies in Western Europe countries have no evident impacts on the COVID-19 epidemic, Meunier, 2020 “Extrapolating pre-lockdown growth rate trends, we provide estimates of the death toll in the absence of any lockdown policies and show that these strategies might not have saved any life in western Europe.
We also show that neighboring countries applying less restrictive social distancing measures (as opposed to police-enforced home containment) experience a very similar time evolution of the epidemic.”
4) Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19: A Tale of Three Models, Chin, 2020 “Inferences on effects of NPIs are non-robust and highly sensitive to model specification. Claimed benefits of lockdown appear grossly exaggerated.”
5) Assessing mandatory stay-at-home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID-19, Bendavid, 2020 “Assessing mandatory stay-at-home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID-19…we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs. Similar reductions in case growth may be achievable with less-restrictive interventions. ” After subtracting the epidemic and lrNPI effects, we find no clear, significant beneficial effect of mrNPIs on case growth in any country.” “In the framework of this analysis, there is no evidence that more restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (‘lockdowns’) contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain or the United States in early 2020.”
6) Effect of school closures on mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: old and new predictions, Rice, 2020
“We therefore conclude that the somewhat counterintuitive results that school closures lead to more deaths are a consequence of the addition of some interventions that suppress the first wave and failure to prioritize protection of the most vulnerable people. When the interventions are lifted, there is still a large population who are susceptible and a substantial number of people who are infected. This then leads to a second wave of infections that can result in more deaths, but later. Further lockdowns would lead to a repeating series of waves of infection unless herd immunity is achieved by vaccination, which is not considered in the model.
A similar result is obtained in some of the scenarios involving general social distancing. For example, adding general social distancing to case isolation and household quarantine was also strongly associated with suppression of the infection during the intervention period, but then a second wave occurs that actually concerns a higher peak demand for ICU beds than for the equivalent scenario without general social distancing.”
7) Stay-at-home policy is a case of exception fallacy: an internet-based ecological study, Savaris, 2021
“To assess the association between staying at home (%) and the reduction/increase in the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in several regions in the world… With our results, we were not able to explain if COVID-19 mortality is reduced by staying at home in ~ 98% of the comparisons after epidemiological weeks 9 to 34.” “We were not able to explain the variation of deaths/million in different regions in the world by social isolation, herein analyzed as differences in staying at home, compared to baseline. In the restrictive and global comparisons, only 3% and 1.6% of the comparisons were significantly different, respectively.”
8) Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary? Kuhbandner, 2020 “Official data from Germany’s RKI agency suggest strongly that the spread of the corona virus in Germany receded autonomously, before any interventions become effective. Several reasons for such an autonomous decline have been suggested. One is that differences in host susceptibility and behavior can result in herd immunity at a relatively low prevalence level. Accounting for individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to the coronavirus yields a maximum of 17% to 20% of the population that needs to be infected to reach herd immunity, an estimate that is empirically supported by the cohort of the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Another reason is that seasonality may also play an important role in dissipation.”
9) A First Literature Review: Lockdowns Only Had a Small Effect on COVID-19, Herby, 2021
“Lockdowns Only Had a Small Effect on COVID-19…studies which differentiate between the two types of behavioral change find that, on average, mandated behavioral changes accounts for only 9% (median: 0%) of the total effect on the growth of the pandemic stemming from behavioral changes. The remaining 91% (median: 100%) of the effect was due to voluntary behavioral changes.”
10) Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe, Colombo, 2020 “We show that relaxing the assumption of
homogeneity to allow for individual variation in susceptibility or connectivity gives a model that has better fit to the data and more accurate 14-day forward prediction of mortality. Allowing for heterogeneity reduces the estimate of “counterfactual” deaths that would have occurred if there had been no interventions from 3.2 million to 262,000, implying that most of the slowing and reversal of COVID-19 mortality is explained by the build-up of herd immunity.”
11) Modeling social distancing strategies to prevent SARS-CoV2 spread in Israel- A Cost-effectiveness analysis, Shlomai, 2020
“A national lockdown has a moderate advantage in saving lives with tremendous costs and possible
overwhelming economic effects.”
12) Lockdowns and Closures vs COVID – 19: COVID Wins, Bhalla, 2020
“As we have stressed throughout, a direct test of lockdowns on cases is the most appropriate test.
This direct test is a before after test i.e. a comparison of what happened post lockdown versus what would have happened. Only for 15 out of 147 economies the lockdown “worked” in making infections lower; for more than a hundred countries, post lockdown estimate of infections was more than three times higher than the counterfactual. This is not evidence of success – rather it is evidence of monumental failure of lockdown policy… “we also test, in some detail, the hypothesis that early lockdowns, and more stringent lockdowns, were effective in containing the virus. We find robust results for the opposite conclusion: later lockdowns performed better, and less stringent lockdowns achieved better outcomes.” “For the first time in human history, lockdowns were used as a strategy to counter the virus. While conventional wisdom, to date, has been that lockdowns were successful (ranging from mild to spectacular) we find not one piece of evidence supporting this claim.”
13) SARS-CoV-2 waves in Europe: A 2-stratum SEIRS model solution, Djaparidze, 2020 “Found that 180-day of mandatory isolations to healthy <60 (i.e. schools and workplaces closed) produces more final deaths…e mandatory isolations have caused economic damages and since these enforced isolations were sub-optimal they involuntarily increased the risk of covid-19 disease-related damages.”
14) Government mandated lockdowns do not reduce Covid-19 deaths: implications for evaluating the stringent New Zealand response, Gibson, 2020 “Lockdowns do not reduce Covid-19 deaths. This pattern is visible on each date that key lockdown decisions were made in New Zealand. The apparent ineffectiveness of lockdowns suggests that New Zealand suffered large economic costs for little benefit in terms of lives saved.”
15) Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison, Bjørnskov, 2020 “The lockdowns in most Western countries have thrown the world into the most severe recession since World War II and the most rapidly developing recession ever seen in mature market economies. They have also caused an erosion of fundamental rights and the separation of powers in a large part of the world as both democratic and autocratic regimes have misused them for emergency powers and ignored constitutional limits to policymaking (Bjørnskov and Voigt, 2020). It is therefore important to evaluate whether and to which extent the lockdowns have worked as officially intended: to suppress the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and prevent deaths associated with it.
Comparing weekly mortality in 24 European countries, the findings in this paper suggest that more severe lockdown policies have not been associated with lower mortality. In other words, the lockdowns have not worked as intended.”
16) Inferring UK COVID-19 fatal infection trajectories from daily mortality data: were infections already in
decline before the UK lockdowns?, Wood, 2020 “A Bayesian inverse problem approach applied to UK data on first wave Covid-19 deaths and the disease duration distribution suggests that fatal infections were in
decline before full UK lockdown (24 March 2020), and that fatal infections in Sweden started to decline
only a day or two later. An analysis of UK data using the model of Flaxman et al. (2020, Nature 584) gives
the same result under relaxation of its prior assumptions on R.”
17) The 1illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe, Homburg, 2020
“We show that their methods involve circular reasoning. The purported effects are pure artefacts, which
contradict the data. Moreover, we demonstrate that the United Kingdom’s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective.”
18) Child malnutrition and COVID-19: the time to act is now, Fore, 2020 “The COVID-19 pandemic is undermining nutrition across the world, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
The worst consequences are borne by young children. Some of the strategies to respond to COVID-19—including physical distancing, school closures, trade restrictions, and country lockdowns—are impacting food systems by disrupting the production, transportation, and sale of nutritious, fresh, and affordable foods, forcing millions of families to rely on nutrient-poor alternatives.”
19) Covid-19 Mortality: A Matter of Vulnerability Among Nations Facing Limited Margins of Adaptation,
De Larochelambert, 2020 “Countries that already experienced a stagnation or regression of life expectancy, with high income and NCD rates, had the highest price to pay. This burden was not alleviated by more stringent public decisions.”
20) Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Europe: A quasi-experimental study,
Hunter, 2020 “Closure of education facilities, prohibiting mass gatherings and closure of some
non-essential businesses were associated with reduced incidence whereas stay at home orders and closure of all non-businesses was not associated with any independent additional impact.”
21) Israel: the fat emperor, 2020 “Given that the evidence reveals that the Corona disease declines even without a complete lockdown, it is recommendable to reverse the current policy and remove the lockdown.”
22) Smart Thinking, Lockdown and COVID-19: Implications for Public Policy, Altman, 2020 “The response to COVID-19 has been overwhelmingly to lockdown much the world’s economies in order to minimize death rates as well as the immediate negative effects of COVID-19. I argue that such policy is too often de-contextualized as it ignores policy externalities, assumes death rate calculations are appropriately accurate and, and as well, assumes focusing on direct Covid-19 effects to maximize human welfare is appropriate. As a result of this approach current policy can be misdirected and with highly negative effects on human welfare. Moreover, such policies can inadvertently result in not minimizing death rates (incorporating externalities) at all, especially in the long run… such misdirected and sub-optimal policy is a product of policy makers using inappropriate mental models which are lacking in a number of key areas; the failure to take a more comprehensive macro perspective to address the virus, using bad heuristics or decision-making tools, relatedly not recognizing the differential effects of the virus, and adopting herding strategy (follow-the-leader) when developing policy.”
23) The Mystery of Taiwan, Janaskie, 2020
“Another fascinating outlier – often cited as a case in which a government handled the pandemic the correct way –was Taiwan. Indeed, Taiwan presents an anomaly in the mitigation and overall handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In terms of stringency, Taiwan ranks among the lowest in the world, with fewer controls than Sweden and far lower than the U.S….The government did test at the border and introduce some minor controls but nowhere near that of most counties. In general, Taiwan rejected lockdown in favor of maintaining social and economic functioning.”
“Despite Taiwan’s closer proximity to the source of the pandemic, and its high population density, it experienced a substantially lower-case rate of 20.7 per million compared with New Zealand’s 278.0 per million.
Rapid and systematic implementation of control measures, in particular effective border management (exclusion, screening, quarantine/isolation), contact tracing, systematic quarantine/isolation of potential and confirmed cases, cluster control, active promotion of mass masking, and meaningful public health communication, are likely to have been instrumental in limiting pandemic spread. Furthermore, the effectiveness of Taiwan’s public health response has meant that to date no lockdown has been implemented, placing Taiwan in a stronger economic position both during and post-COVID-19 compared with New Zealand, which had seven weeks of national lockdown (at Alert Levels 4 and 3).”
24) What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020, Gartz, 2021 “While expert consensus regarding the
ineffectiveness of mass quarantine of previous years has recently been challenged, significant present-day
evidence continuously demonstrates that mass quarantine is both ineffectual at preventing disease spread as well as harmful to individuals.”
25) Cost of Lockdowns: A Preliminary Report, AIER, 2020 “In the debate over coronavirus policy, there has
been far too little focus on the costs of lockdowns. It’s very common for the proponents of these interventions to write articles and large studies without even mentioning the downsides…a brief look at the cost of stringencies in the United States, and around the world, including stay-at-home orders, closings of business and schools, restrictions on gatherings, shutting of arts and sports, restrictions on medical services, and interventions in the freedom of movement.”
26) Leaked Study From Inside German Government Warns Lockdown Could Kill More People Than Coronavirus, Watson, 2020
German Minister: Lockdown Will Kill More Than Covid-19 Does “The lockdown and the measures taken by the German federal and central governments to contain the coronavirus apparently cost more lives, for example of cancer patients, than of those actually killed by it.”
“Half a million more will die from tuberculosis.”
27) Evaluating the effects of shelter-in-place policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, Berry, 2021
“Previous studies have claimed that shelter-in-place orders saved thousands of lives, but we reassess these analyses and show that they are not reliable. We find that shelter-in-place orders had no detectable health benefits, only modest effects on behavior, and small but adverse effects on the economy.”
28) Study: Lockdown “Will Destroy at Least Seven Times More Years of Human Life” Than it Saves, Watson, 2020
“A study has found that the “stay at home” lockdown order in the United States will “destroy at least seven times more years of human life” than it saves and that this number is “likely” to be more than 90 times greater…
Research shows that at least 16.8% of adults in the United States have suffered “major mental harm from responses to Covid-19…Extrapolating these numbers out, the figures show that “anxiety from responses to Covid-19 has impacted 42,873,663 adults and will rob them of an average of 1.3 years of life, thus destroying 55.7 million years of life.”
29) Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19, Atkeson, 2020 “Failing to account for these four stylized facts may result in overstating the importance of policy mandated NPIs for shaping the progression of this deadly pandemic…
The existing literature has concluded that NPI policy and social distancing have been essential to reducing the spread of COVID-19 and the number of deaths due to this deadly pandemic. The stylized facts established in this paper challenge this conclusion.”
30) THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 UNEMPLOYMENT SHOCK ON LIFE EXPECTANCY AND MORTALITY RATES, Bianchi, 2021
“Policymakers should therefore consider combining lockdowns with policy interventions meant to reduce
economic distress, guarantee access to health care, and facilitate effective economic reopening under health care policies to limit SARS-CoV-19 spread…assess the long-run effects of the COVID-19 economic recession on mortality and life expectancy. We estimate the size of the COVID-19-related unemployment shock to be between 2 and 5 times larger than the typical unemployment shock, depending on race and gender, resulting in a significant increase in mortality rates and drop in life expectancy. We also predict that the shock will disproportionately affect African Americans and women, over a short horizon, while the effects for white men will unfold over longer horizons. These figures translate in more than 0.8 million additional deaths over the next 15 years.”
31) Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus: The Evidence, AIER, 2020 “The question is whether lockdowns worked to control the virus in a way that is scientifically verifiable. Based on the following studies, the answer is no and for a variety of reasons: bad data, no correlations, no causal demonstration, anomalous exceptions, and so on.
There is no relationship between lockdowns (or whatever else people want to call them to mask their true nature) and virus control.”
32) Too Little of a Good Thing A Paradox of Moderate Infection Control, Cohen, 2020
“The link between limiting pathogen exposure and improving public health is not always so straightforward.
Reducing the risk that each member of a community will be exposed to a pathogen has the attendant effect of increasing the average age at which infections occur. For pathogens that inflict greater morbidity at older ages, interventions that reduce but do not eliminate exposure can paradoxically increase the number of cases of severe disease by shifting the burden of infection toward older individuals.”
33) Covid Lockdown Cost/Benefits: A Critical Assessment of the Literature, Allen, 2020 “Generally speaking, the ineffectiveness of lockdown stems from voluntary changes in behavior. Lockdown jurisdictions were not able to prevent noncompliance, and non-lockdown jurisdictions benefited from voluntary changes in behavior that mimicked lockdowns. The limited effectiveness of lockdowns explains why, after one year, the unconditional cumulative deaths per million, and the pattern of daily deaths per million, is not negatively correlated with the stringency of lockdown across countries. Using a cost/benefit method proposed by Professor Bryan Caplan, and using two extreme assumptions of lockdown effectiveness, the cost/benefit ratio of lockdowns in Canada, in terms of life-years saved, is between 3.6–282. That is, it is possible that lockdown will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in Canada’s history.”
34) Covid-19: How does Belarus have one of the lowest death rates in Europe? Karáth, 2020
“Belarus’s beleaguered government remains unfazed by covid-19. President Aleksander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, has flatly denied the seriousness of the pandemic, refusing to impose a lockdown, close schools, or cancel mass events like the Belarusian football league or the Victory Day parade. Yet the country’s death rate is among the lowest in Europe—just over 700 in a population of 9.5 million with over 73 000 confirmed cases.”
35) PANDA, Nell, 2020 “For each country put forward as an example, usually in some pairwise comparison and with an attendant single cause explanation, there are a host of countries that fail the expectation.
We set out to model the disease with every expectation of failure. In choosing variables it was obvious from the outset that there would be contradictory outcomes in the real world. But there were certain variables that appeared to be reliable markers as they had surfaced in much of the media and pre-print papers.
These included age, co-morbidity prevalence and the seemingly light population mortality rates in poorer
countries than that in richer countries. Even the worst among developing nations—a clutch of countries in
equatorial Latin America—have seen lighter overall population mortality than the developed world.
Our aim therefore was not to develop the final answer, rather to seek common cause variables that would go some way to providing an explanation and stimulating discussion. There are some very obvious outliers in this theory, not the least of these being Japan. We test and find wanting the popular notions that lockdowns with their attendant social distancing and various other NPIs confer protection.”
36) States with the Fewest Coronavirus Restrictions, McCann, 2021
Graphics reveal no relationship in stringency level as it relates to the death rates, but finds a clear
relationship between stringency and unemployment.
37) COVID-19 Lockdown Policies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Robinson, 2021 “Studies at the economic level of analysis points to the possibility that deaths associated with economic harms or underfunding of other health issues may outweigh the deaths that lockdowns save, and that the extremely high financial cost of lockdowns may have negative implications for overall population health in terms of diminished resources for treating other conditions. Research on ethics in relation to lockdowns points to the inevitability of value judgements in balancing different kinds of harms and benefits than lockdowns cause.”
38) Comedy and Tragedy in Two Americas, Tucker, 2021 “Covid unleashed a version of tyranny in the United States. Through a surreptitious and circuitous route, many public officials somehow managed to gain enormous power for themselves and demonstrate that all our vaunted limits on government are easily transgressed under the right conditions. Now they want to use that power to enact permanent change in this country. Right now, people, capital, and institutions are fleeing from them to safe and freer places, which only drives the people in power to madness. They are right now plotting to shut down the free states through any means possible.”
39) Lockdowns Worsen the Health Crisis, Younes, 2021 “We suspect that one day, the quarantining of entire societies that was carried out in response to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to vast swaths of the population becoming unhealthier overall and ironically more susceptible to severe outcomes from the virus, will be seen as the 21st century version of bloodletting. As the epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff has observed, public health is not just about one disease, but all health outcomes. Apparently, in 2020, the authorities forgot this obvious truth.”
40) The Damage of Lockdowns to Young People, Yang, 2021 “Biological and cultural reasons why young people, mostly referring to those under the age of 30, are particularly vulnerable to the isolation as well as lifestyle disruptions brought about by lockdowns… “Adults under 30 experienced the highest increase in suicidal thinking in the same period, with rates of suicidal ideation rising from 12.5% to 14% in people aged 18-29.
For many of the young adults surveyed, these mental health challenges persisted into the summer, despite a loosening of restrictions.”
41) Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19, Giuntella, 2021
“COVID-19 has affected daily life in unprecedented ways. Drawing on a longitudinal dataset of college students before and during the pandemic, we document dramatic changes in physical activity, sleep, time use, and mental health. We show that biometric and time-use data are critical for understanding the mental health impacts of COVID-19, as the pandemic has tightened the link between lifestyle behaviors and depression.”
42) CDC: A Quarter of Young Adults Say They Contemplated Suicide This Summer During Pandemic, Miltimore, 2020
“One in four young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 say they’ve considered suicide in the past month because of the pandemic, according to new CDC data that paints a bleak picture of the nation’s mental health during the crisis. The data also flags a surge of anxiety and substance abuse, with more than 40 percent of those surveyed saying they experienced a mental or behavioral health condition connected to the Covid-19 emergency.
The CDC study analyzed 5,412 survey respondents between June 24 and 30.”
43) Global rise in childhood mental health issues amid pandemic, LEICESTER, 2021
“For doctors who treat them, the pandemic’s impact on the mental health of children is increasingly alarming.
The Paris pediatric hospital caring for Pablo has seen a doubling in the number of children and young teenagers requiring treatment after attempted suicides since September. Doctors elsewhere report similar surges, with children — some as young as 8 — deliberately running into traffic, overdosing on pills and otherwise self-harming. In Japan, child and adolescent suicides hit record levels in 2020, according to the
Education Ministry.”
44) Lockdowns: The Great Debate, AIER, 2020 “The global lockdowns, on this scale with this level of
stringency, have been without precedent. And yet we have examples of a handful of countries and US states that did not do this, and their record in minimizing the cost of the pandemic is better than the lockdown countries and states. The evidence that the lockdowns have done net good in terms of public health is still lacking.”
45) COVID-19 containment policies through time may cost more lives at metapopulation level, Wells, 2020
“Show that temporally restricted containment efforts, that have the potential to flatten epidemic curves,
can result in wider disease spread and larger epidemic sizes in metapopulations.”
46) The Covid-19 Emergency Did Not Justify Lockdowns, Boudreaux, 2021 “Yet there was no such careful
calculation for the lockdowns imposed in haste to combat Covid-19. Lockdowns were simply assumed not only to be effective at significantly slowing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, but also to impose only costs that are acceptable. Regrettably, given the novelty of the lockdowns, and the enormous magnitude of their likely downsides, this bizarrely sanguine attitude toward lockdowns was – and remains – wholly unjustified.”
47) Death and Lockdowns, Tierney, 2021 “Now that the 2020 figures have been properly tallied, there’s still no convincing evidence that strict lockdowns reduced the death toll from Covid-19. But one effect is clear:
more deaths from other causes, especially among the young and middle-aged, minorities, and the less affluent.
The best gauge of the pandemic’s impact is what statisticians call “excess mortality,” which compares the
overall number of deaths with the total in previous years. That measure rose among older Americans because of Covid-19, but it rose at an even sharper rate among people aged 15 to 54, and most of those excess deaths were not attributed to the virus.”
48) The COVID Pandemic Could Lead to 75,000 Additional Deaths from Alcohol and Drug Misuse and Suicide, Well Being Trust, 2021 “The brief notes that if the country fails to invest in solutions that can help heal the nation’s isolation, pain, and suffering, the collective impact of COVID-19 will be even more devastating.
Three factors, already at work, are exacerbating deaths of despair: unprecedented economic failure paired with massive unemployment, mandated social isolation for months and possible residual isolation for years, and uncertainty caused by the sudden emergence of a novel, previously unknown microbe…the deadly impact of lockdowns will grow in future years, due to the lasting economic and educational consequences.
The United States will experience more than 1 million excess deaths in the United States during the next two decades as a result of the massive “unemployment shock” last year… lockdowns are the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford Medical School.
“We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms, imposed on nearly every poor person on the face of the earth, for a generation.”
49) Professor Explains Flaw in Many Models Used for COVID-19 Lockdown Policies, Chen, 2021
“Economics professor Doug Allen wanted to know why so many early models used to create COVID-19 lockdown policies turned out to be highly incorrect. What he found was that a great majority were based on false assumptions and “tended to over-estimate the benefits and under-estimate the costs.” He found it troubling that policies such as total lockdowns were based on those models. “They were built on a set of assumptions. Those assumptions turned out to be really important, and the models are very sensitive to them, and they turn out to be false, ” said Allen, the Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, in an interview.”
“Furthermore, “The limited effectiveness of lockdowns explains why, after one year, the unconditional
cumulative deaths per million, and the pattern of daily deaths per million, is not negatively correlated
with the stringency of lockdown across countries,” writes Allen. In other words, in his assessment, heavy
lockdowns do not meaningfully reduce the number of deaths in the areas where they are implemented, when compared to areas where lockdowns were not implemented or as stringent.”
50) The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing, Tucker, 2021
“The lesson: lockdown policies failed to protect the vulnerable and otherwise did little to nothing actually to suppress or otherwise control the virus. AIER has assembled fully 35 studies revealing no connection between lockdowns and disease outcomes. In addition, the Heritage Foundation has published an outstanding roundup of the Covid experience, revealing that lockdowns were largely political theater distracting from what should have been good public health practice.”
51) The Ugly Truth About The Covid-19 Lockdowns, Hudson, 2021 “By following the data and official
communications from global organizations, PANDA unravels what transpired that led us into deleterious lockdowns, which continue to have enormous negative impacts across the world.”
52) The Catastrophic Impact of Covid Forced Societal Lockdowns, Alexander, 2020 “It is also noteworthy that these irrational and unreasonable restrictive actions are not limited to any one jurisdiction such as the US, but shockingly have occurred across the globe. It is stupefying as to why governments, whose primary roles are to protect their citizens, are taking these punitive actions despite the compelling evidence that these policies are misdirected and very harmful, causing palpable harm to human welfare on so many levels. It’s tantamount to insanity what governments have done to their populations and largely based on no scientific basis.
None! In this, we have lost our civil liberties and essential rights, all based on spurious ‘science’ or worse,
opinion, and this erosion of fundamental freedoms and democracy is being championed by government leaders who are disregarding the Constitutional (USA) and Charter (Canada) limits to their right to make and enact policy.
These unconstitutional and unprecedented restrictions have taken a staggering toll on our health and well-being and also target the very precepts of democracy; particularly given the fact that this viral pandemic is no different in overall impact on society than any previous pandemics. There is simply no defensible rationale to treat this pandemic any differently.”
53) Cardiovascular and immunological implications of social distancing in the context of COVID-19, D’Acquisto, 2020
It is clear that social distancing measures such as lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic will have subsequent effects on the body including the immune and cardiovascular systems, the extent of which will be dependent on the duration of such measures. The take-home message of these investigations is that social interaction is an integral part of a wide range of conditions that influence cardiovascular and immunological homeostasis.”
54) A Statistical Analysis of COVID-19 and Government Protection Measures in the U.S., Dayaratna, 2021
“Our analysis demonstrates that the time from a state’s first case to voluntary changes in residence mobility, which occurred before the imposition of shelter-in-place orders in 43 states, indeed quelled the time to reach the maximum growth in per capita cases. On the other hand, our analysis also indicates that these behavioral changes were not significantly effective in quelling mortality… our simulations find a negative effect of the time from a state’s first case to the imposition of shelter-in-place orders on the time to reach the specified per capita mortality thresholds. Our analysis also finds a slightly smaller negative effect on the time from a state’s first case to the imposition of prohibitions on gatherings above 500 people…. shelter-in-place orders can also have negative unforeseen health-related consequences, including the capacity to cause patients to avoid visits to doctors’ offices and emergency rooms. In addition, these policies can result in people, including those with chronic illnesses, skipping routine medical appointments, not seeking routine procedures to diagnose advanced cancer, not pursuing cancer screening colonoscopies, postponing non-emergency cardiac catheterizations, being unable to seek routine care if they experience chronic pain, and suffering mental health effects, among others…
drug overdose deaths, alcohol consumption, and suicidal ideation have also been noted to have increased in 2020 compared to prior years.”
55) Lockdowns in Taiwan: Myths Versus Reality, Gartz, 2021
“Articles citing a “tightening” of rules only briefly acknowledge that Taiwan never locked down.
Instead, they blame the increase in cases on a loosening of travel restrictions and on people’s becoming “more relaxed or careless as time goes by.” A closer look reveals that this harsh turn in restrictions consists of capping gatherings at 500 for outdoors and 100 for indoors to 10 and 5 respectively — more in line with gathering limits imposed by Western nations.The reality is that the hyperbolic 124 action items misrepresent the Taiwanese approach. Relative to other countries, Taiwan serves as a beacon of freedom: children still attended school, professionals continued to go to work, and businesspeople were able to keep their businesses open.”
56) Lockdowns Need to Be Intellectually Discredited Once and For All, Yang, 2021
“Lockdowns do not provide any meaningful benefit and they cause unnecessary collateral damage. Voluntary actions and light-handed accommodations to protect the vulnerable according to comprehensive analysis, not cherry-picked studies with overly short timelines, provide similar, if not better, virus mitigation compared to lockdown policies. Furthermore, contrary to what many keep trying to say, it is lockdowns that are the causal factor behind the unprecedented economic and social damage that has been dealt to society.”
57) Canada’s COVID-19 Strategy is an Assault on the Working Class, Kulldorff, 2020
“The Canadian COVID-19 lockdown strategy is the worst assault on the working class in many decades.
Low-risk college students and young professionals are protected; such as lawyers, government employees, journalists, and scientists who can work from home; while older high-risk working-class people must work, risking their lives generating the population immunity that will eventually help protect everyone.
This is backwards, leading to many unnecessary deaths from both COVID-19 and other diseases.”
58) Our COVID-19 Plan would Minimize Mortality and Lockdown-induced Collateral Damage, Kulldorff, 2020 “While mortality is inevitable during a pandemic, the COVID-19 lockdown strategy has led to more than 220,000 deaths, with the urban working class carrying the heaviest burden. Many older workers have been forced to accept high mortality risk or increased poverty, or both. While the current lockdowns are less strict than in March, the lockdown and contact tracing strategy is the worst assault on the working class since segregation and the Vietnam War. Lockdown policies have closed schools, businesses and churches, while not enforcing strict protocols to protect high-risk nursing home residents. University closures and the economic displacement caused by lockdowns have led millions of young adults to live with older parents, increasing regular close interactions across generations.”
59) The costs are too high; the scientist who wants lockdown lifted faster;
Gupta, 2021 “It’s becoming clear that a lot of people have been exposed to the virus and that the death rate in people under 65 is not something you would lock down the economy for,” she says. “We can’t just think about those who are vulnerable to the disease.
We have to think about those who are vulnerable to lockdown too.
The costs of lockdown are too high at this point.”
60) Review of the Impact of COVID-19 First Wave Restrictions on Cancer Care, Collateral Global, Heneghan; 2021
“Restrictive measures in the first wave of the COVID19 pandemic in 2019-20 led to wide-scale, global disruption
of cancer care. Future restrictions should consider disruptions to the cancer care pathways and plan to prevent unnecessary harms.”
61) German Study Finds Lockdown ‘Had No Effect’ on Stopping Spread of Coronavirus, Watson, 2021
“Stanford researchers found “no clear, significant beneficial effect of [more restrictive measures] on case
growth in any country.”
62) Lockdown will claim the equivalent of 560,000 lives because of the health impact of the ‘deep and prolonged recession it will cause’, expert warns, Adams/Thomas/Daily Mail, 2020 “
63) Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns, Glen, 2021
“Likewise, a 2020 paper about quarantines published in The Lancet states: “Separation from loved ones, the loss of freedom, uncertainty over disease status, and boredom can, on occasion, create dramatic effects. Suicide has been reported, substantial anger generated, and lawsuits brought following the imposition of quarantine in previous outbreaks. The potential benefits of mandatory mass quarantine need to be weighed carefully against the possible psychological costs. ”Yet, when dealing with Covid-19 and other issues, politicians sometimes ignore this essential principle of sound decision-making. For a prime example, NJ Governor Phil Murphy recently insisted that he must maintain a lockdown or “there will be blood on our hands.” What that statement fails to recognize is that lockdowns also kill people via the mechanisms detailed above… In other words, the anxiety from reactions to Covid-19—such as business shutdowns, stay-at-home orders, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will extinguish at least seven times more years of life than can possibly be saved by the lockdowns. Again, all of these figures minimize deaths from anxiety and maximize lives saved by lockdowns.
Under the more moderate scenarios documented above, anxiety will destroy more than 90 times the life saved by lockdowns.”
64) The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence, Brooks, 2020 “Reported negative psychological effects including post-traumatic stress symptoms, confusion, and anger. Stressors included longer quarantine duration, infection fears, frustration, boredom, inadequate supplies, inadequate information, financial loss, and stigma. Some researchers have suggested long-lasting effects.
In situations where quarantine is deemed necessary, officials should quarantine individuals for no longer than required, provide clear rationale for quarantine and information about protocols, and ensure sufficient supplies are provided. Appeals to altruism by reminding the public about the benefits of quarantine to wider society can be favorable.”
65) Lockdown ‘had no effect’ on coronavirus pandemic in Germany, Huggler, 2021 “A new study by German scientists claims to have found evidence that lockdowns may have had little effect on controlling the coronavirus pandemic.
Statisticians at Munich University found “no direct connection” between the German lockdown and falling infection rates in the country.”
66) Swedish researchers: Anti-corona restrictions have killed as many people as the virus itself, Peterson, 2021 “The restrictions against the coronavirus have killed as many people as the virus itself. The restrictions have first and foremost hit the poorer parts of the world and struck young people, the researchers believe, pointing to children who died of malnutrition and various diseases. They also pointed to adults who died of diseases that could have been treated. “These deaths we see in poor countries are related to women who die in childbirth, newborns who die early, children who die of pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria because they are malnourished or not vaccinated,” Peterson said.”
67) Lockdowns Leave London Broken, Burden, 2021
“In normal times, London runs on a sprawling network of trains and buses that bring in millions of commuters to work and spend. Asking those people to work from home ripped the heart out of the economy, leaving the U.K.
capital more like a ghost town than a thriving metropolis. The city is now emerging from a year of lockdowns with deeper scars than much of the rest of the U.K. Many restaurants, theaters and shops remain shuttered, and the migrant workers that staffed them fled to their birth countries in the tens of thousands. Even when most of the rules expire in June, new border restrictions since the U.K. left the European Union will make it harder for many to return. As a result, the city’s business model focused on population density is in upheaval, and many of London’s strengths have turned to weaknesses.”
68) Lockdowns Are a Step Too Far in Combating Covid-19, Nocera, 2020
“The truth is that using lockdowns to halt the spread of the coronavirus was never a good idea.
If they have any utility at all, it is short term: to help ensure that hospitals aren’t overwhelmed in the early
stages of the pandemic. But the long-term shutdowns of schools and businesses, and the insistence that people stay indoors — which almost every state imposed at one point or another — were examples of terribly misguided public policy. It is likely that when the history of this pandemic is told, lockdowns will be viewed as one of the worst mistakes the world made.”
69) Stop the Lies: Lockdowns Did Not and Do Not Protect the Vulnerable, Alexander, 2021
“Lockdowns didn’t protect the vulnerable, but rather harmed them and shifted the morbidity and mortality burden to the underprivileged.”
70) Why Shutdowns and Masks Suit the Elite, Swaim, 2021 “The dispute over masks—like those over school closures, business shutdowns, social-distancing guidelines and all the rest—should always properly have been a discussion of acceptable versus unacceptable risk. But the preponderance of America’s cultural and political leaders showed no ability to think about risk in a helpful way.”
71) The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality, Agrawal, 2021
“Find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases. The increase in excess
mortality is statistically significant in the immediate weeks following SIP implementation for the international comparison only and occurs despite the fact that there was a decline in the number of excess deaths prior to the implementation of the policy… failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier, and in which SIP policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths than countries/U.S. states that were slower to implement SIP policies. We also failed to observe differences in excess death trends before and after the implementation of SIP policies based on pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates.”
72) COVID-19 Lockdowns Over 10 Times More Deadly Than Pandemic Itself, Revolver, 2020
“We have drawn upon existing economic studies on the health effects of unemployment to calculate an estimate of how many years of life will have been lost due to the lockdowns in the United States, and have weighed this against an estimate of how many years of life will have been saved by the lockdowns.
The results are nothing short of staggering, and suggest that the lockdowns will end up costing Americans over 10 times as many years of life as they will save from the virus itself.”
73) The Impact of Interruptions in Childhood Vaccination, Collateral Global, 2021
“COVID-19 pandemic measures caused significant disruption to childhood vaccination services and uptake.
In future pandemics, and for the remainder of the current one, policymakers must ensure access to vaccination services and provide catch-up programs to maintain high levels of immunization, especially in those most vulnerable to childhood diseases in order to avoid further inequalities.”
74) Shelter-in-place orders didn’t save lives during the pandemic, research paper concludes,
Howell, 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns caused more deaths instead of reducing them, study finds
“Researchers from the RAND Corporation and the University of Southern California studied excess mortality from all causes, the virus or otherwise, in 43 countries and the 50 U.S. states that imposed shelter-in-place, or “SIP,” policies. In short, the orders didn’t work. “We fail to find that SIP policies saved lives. To the contrary, we find a positive association between SIP policies and excess deaths. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases,” the researchers said in a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).”
75) Experts Said Ending Lockdowns Would Be Worse for the Economy than the Lockdowns Themselves.
They Were Wrong, Mises Institute, 2021
“There is no indication whatsoever that states with longer periods of lockdown and forced social distancing fared better economically than states that abandoned covid restrictions much earlier. Rather, many states that ended lockdowns early—or didn’t have them at all—now show less unemployment and more economic growth than states that imposed lockdowns and social distancing rules much longer. The complete lack of any correlation between economic success and covid lockdowns illustrates yet again that the confident predictions of the experts—who insisted that states without long lockdowns would endure bloodbaths and economic destruction—were very wrong.”
76) The Harms of Lockdowns, The Dangers of Censorship, And A Path Forward, AIER, 2020
“When you read about failures of intelligence, probably the most spectacular being the weapons of mass
destruction fiasco, the lesson that they were supposed to learn from that, and maybe have learned, is that
you need to encourage cognitive dissonance. You need to encourage critical thinking. You need to have people who are looking at things differently than your mainstream view, because it will help to prevent you from making catastrophic errors. It will help to keep you honest. And we’ve done exactly the opposite instead of encouraging critical thinking, different ideas, we’ve stifled it. That’s what makes the actions of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons towards you so shocking because it’s absolute the opposite of what we need to do.
And it’s been that absence of critical thinking of incorporating critical thinking in our decision-making that has led to one mistake after another in handling COVID-19.”
77) UNDERSTANDING INTER-REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN COVID-19 MORTALITY RATES, PANDA, 2021
“We cannot argue that the phased adoption of these measures has any impact on risk mitigation.
This is an important consideration for policy makers who must carefully balance the benefits of a phased
lockdown strategy with the economic harm caused by such an intervention.”
78) Potential lessons from the Taiwan and New Zealand health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Summers, 2020
“Extensive public health infrastructure established in Taiwan pre-COVID-19 enabled a fast coordinated response, particularly in the domains of early screening, effective methods for isolation/quarantine, digital technologies for identifying potential cases and mass mask use. This timely and vigorous response allowed Taiwan to avoid the national lockdown used by New Zealand. Many of Taiwan’s pandemic control components could potentially be adopted by other jurisdictions.”
79) 5 Times More Children Committed Suicide Than Died of COVID-19 During Lockdown: UK Study, Phillips, 2021
“Five times more children and young people committed suicide than died of COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic in the United Kingdom, according to a study, which also concluded that lockdowns are more detrimental to children’s health than the virus itself.”
80) Study Indicates Lockdowns Have Increased Deaths of Despair, Yang, 2021 “Deaths of despair due in large part to social isolation. Regardless of whether they think lockdowns work, policymakers must be cognizant of the fact shutting down society also leads to excess deaths. Whether it’s from the government policies themselves or the willful compliance of society enforcing the soft despotism of popular hysteria, social isolation is taking its toll on the lives of many.”
81) DEATHS OF DESPAIR AND THE INCIDENCE OF EXCESS MORTALITY IN 2020, Mulligan, 2020 “Presumably social isolation is part of the mechanism that turns a pandemic into a wave of deaths of despair. However, the results in this paper do not say how much, if any, comes from government stay-at-home orders versus various actions individual households and private businesses have taken to encourage social distancing.”
82) Effects of the lockdown on the mental health of the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: Results from the COMET collaborative network, Fiorillo, 2020 “Although physical isolation and lockdown represent essential public health measures for containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are a serious threat for mental health and well-being of the general population. As an integral part of COVID-19 response, mental health needs should be addressed.”
Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic, Pfefferbaum, 2020 “The Covid-19 pandemic has alarming implications for individual and collective health and emotional and social functioning. In addition to providing medical care, already stretched health care providers have an important role in monitoring psychosocial needs and delivering psychosocial support to their patients, health care providers, and the public — activities that should be integrated into general pandemic health care.”
83) Why Government Lockdowns Mostly Harm the Poor, Peterson, 2021 “For developed countries, lockdowns undoubtedly imposed significant economic and health costs. Many workers in the service sector, like the food industry, for example, were left unemployed and had to rely on government stimulus checks to get them through the bumpiest stages of the pandemic. Some businesses had to shutter their doors entirely, leaving many employers without jobs as well. This is to say nothing of the severe mental health consequences of government lockdown orders…These irresponsible government actions are especially acute and more harmful in developing countries and among the poor because most workers can’t afford to sacrifice weeks or perhaps months of income, only to be confined to what is effectively house arrest.”
84) Cost of Lockdowns: A Preliminary Report, AIER, 2020 “In the debate over coronavirus policy, there has been far too little focus on the costs of lockdowns. It’s very common for the proponents of these interventions to write articles and large studies without even mentioning the downsides.”
85) In Africa, social distancing is a privilege few can afford, Noko, 2020 “Social distancing could
probably work in China and in Europe – but in many African countries, it is a privilege only a minority can
afford.”
86) Teargas, beatings and bleach: the most extreme Covid-19 lockdown controls around the world, Ratcliff, 2020
“Violence and humiliation used to police coronavirus curfews around globe, often affecting the poorest and more vulnerable.”
87) “Shoot them dead”: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte orders police and military to kill citizens who defy coronavirus lockdown, Capatides, 2020 “Later that night, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took to the airwaves with a chilling warning for his citizens: Defy the lockdown orders again and the police will shoot you dead.”
88) Colombia’s Capital Locks Down as Cases Surge, Vyas, 2021
Colombia Protests Turn Deadly Amid Covid-19 Hardships “Bogotá, which has logged a quarter of the nation’s cases, had already applied restrictions on mobility and alcohol sales in order to contain gatherings and the spread of the virus before expanding the measures.” “The nationwide unrest was triggered by a proposed tax-collection overhaul and stringent pandemic lockdowns that have been blamed for causing mass unemployment and throwing some four million people into poverty.”
89) Argentina receives AstraZeneca jabs amid anti-lockdown protests, AL JAZEERA, 2021
“New COVID-19 restrictions have been imposed in and around Buenos Aires in effort to stem recent rise in infections …Argentines took to the streets on Saturday, however, to protest against new coronavirus-related restrictions in and around the capital, Buenos Aires, that came into effect on Friday… Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, head of the city government, said last week that Buenos Aires “totally disagree[s] with the decision of the national government to close schools.”
90) Lives vs. Livelihoods Revisited: Should Poorer Countries with Younger Populations Have Equally Strict
Lockdowns? Von Carnap, 2020 “Economists in the rich world have largely supported stringent containment measures, rejecting any trade-off between lives and livelihoods…strict lockdowns in countries where a significant share of the population is poor are likely to have more severe consequences on welfare than in richer countries.
From a macro perspective, any negative economic effect of a lockdown is reducing a budget with already fewer resources in a poor country.”
91) Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Developing Countries: Lessons from Selected Countries of the Global South, Chowdhury, 2020
“If testing, contact tracing and other early containment measures had been adequately done in a timely manner to stem viral transmission, nationwide lockdowns would not have been necessary, and only limited areas would have had to be locked down for quarantine purposes. The effectiveness of containment measures, including lockdowns, are typically judged primarily by their ability to quickly reduce new infections, ‘flatten the curve’ and avoid subsequent waves of infections. However, lockdowns can have many effects, depending on context, and typically incur huge economic costs, unevenly distributed in economies and societies.”
92) Battling COVID-19 with dysfunctional federalism: Lessons from India, Choutagunta, 2021 “Find that
India’s centralized lockdown was at best a partial success in a handful of states, while imposing enormous
economic costs even in areas where few were affected by the pandemic.”
93) The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea, Tucker, 2020
“Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few day in March 2020, it happened to all of us, causing an avalanche of social, cultural, and economic destruction that will ring through the ages.”
94) Young People Are Particularly Vulnerable To Lockdowns, Yang, 2021 “The damage to society was certainly extensive, with a 3.5 percent annualized economic retraction record in 2020 and a 32.9 percent decline in Q2 of 2020, making this one of the sharpest economic declines in modern history. However, the level of suffering and trauma caused by these policies cannot be appropriately expressed by economic data alone.
Lockdown policies may have caused a substantial amount of financial damage, but the social damage is just as concerning, if not more so. Across the board, there have been increased reports of mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety, that are linked to social isolation, substantial life disruptions, and
existential dread over the state of the world. Unlike lost dollars, mental health problems leave real and
lasting damage which could lead to complications later in life, if not self-harm or suicide. For young people, a drastic increase in suicides has claimed more lives than Covid-19. That is because they are far less vulnerable to Covid than older segments of the population but far more negatively impacted by lockdowns.”
95) More “Covid Suicides” than Covid Deaths in Kids, Gartz, 2021
“Before Covid, an American youth died by suicide every six hours. Suicide is a major public health threat and a leading cause of death for those aged under 25 — one far bigger than Covid. And it is something that we have only made worse as we, led by politicians and ‘the science,’ deprived our youngest members of society —who constitute one-third of the US population — of educational, emotional and social development without their permission or consent for over a year… the biggest increase in youth deaths occurred in the 15-24 age bracket —the age group most susceptible to committing suicide, and which constitutes 91% of youth suicides… such “deaths of despair” tend to be higher among youths, particularly for those about to graduate or enter the workforce.
With economic shrinkage due to lockdowns and forced closures of universities, youths face both less economic opportunity and limited social support — which plays an important role in reporting and preventing self-harm —through social networks.”
96) Comparison of COVID-19 outcomes among shielded and non-shielded populations, Jani, 2021
“Linked family practitioner, prescribing, laboratory, hospital and death records and compared COVID-19 outcomes among shielded and non-shielded individuals in the West of Scotland. Of the 1.3 million population, 27,747 (2.03%) were advised to shield, and 353,085 (26.85%) were classified a priori as moderate risk…in spite of the shielding strategy, high risk individuals were at increased risk of death.”
97) Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily Covid Deaths, Fumento, 2021 “
“Locking down is saving time,” he said last year. “It’s not solving anything.” In essence the country “front-
loaded” its deaths and decreased those deaths later on…Despite Sweden inevitably feeling undertow from economies that did lock down, “Covid-19 has had a rather limited impact on its economy compared with most other European countries,” according to the Nordetrade.com consulting firm. “Softer preventative restrictions against Covid-19 earlier in the year and a strong recovery in the third quarter contained the GDP contraction,” it said.
Thus, the country the media loved to hate is reaping the best of all worlds: Few current cases and deaths,
stronger economic growth than the lockdown countries, and its people never experienced the yoke of tyranny.”
98) Lockdown lessons, Ross, 2021
“Never take radical action without overwhelming evidence that it will work. The authorities took all manner of drastic actions and weren’t the least bit interested in offering evidence and they still aren’t.
Unelected bureaucrats, who know nothing about us, dictated how we live our lives down to the tiniest details.
The authorities coerced hundreds of millions of people to wear masks. They assumed that would reduce transmission.
There is now evidence that masks are worse than useless. Be extremely reluctant to commit sweeping violations of the Constitution. The Constitution is our country’s greatest asset and our north star.
Ignoring it or trampling on it is never a good idea. The Constitution is what makes us who we are.
We ought to treat it like the treasure it is. Always consider both costs and benefits and make best effort
projections of both. The costs of virtually every aspect of the lockdown were more than the benefits, usually far more…it has increased the amount of depression and number of suicides, especially among those age 18 and younger.
The postponement and cancellation of medical appointments have resulted in thousands of premature deaths.”
99) Prof. Sunetra Gupta — New Lockdown is a Terrible Mistake, Gupta, 2020
“I would beg to disagree.
I think there is an alternative, and that alternative involves reducing the deaths that this pandemic might cause by diverting our energies to protecting the vulnerable. Now, why would I say that? The main reason to say that is because the costs of alternative strategies such as lockdown are so profound that we are left with a contemplation of how to go ahead, go forwards, in this current sort of situation without inflicting harm, not just to those who are vulnerable to COVID, but to the general public.
Exposing themselves for what they really are and resulting wealth transfer. Do you remember no money to be made over the back of the so-called pandemic because we are in it all together. No we were not!
Planned and prepared well in advance waiting for it to happen, man-made.
A man made or created virus to be used to strip us from our civil liberties and locking us up. The main damage caused by politician in the West falling over each others into taking draconic measurement and infringe on established laws to please the centralized coup planners/makers/banks.
‘Covid has now proven not to be the cure for what ails us.( Humanity). Worse, presented the covid-19 as a call to arms, trying/need to reorganizing society as if for a war effort, advancing ecological collapse and five million children starving.’ Not to talk about the mainly Elderly passing without proper treatment in name of Science because no treatment was possible according to the regulators/medical establishment. Ivermectin would/could not work despite universal usage. We just have now scratch the surface in respect of upheaval to follow as a result and will prove to be very costly, including war, economic collapse/disruption/hunger or famine.
Humanity last chance, it is more than a virus!
By Oxfam International
For every new billionaire created during the pandemic — one every 30 hours — nearly a million people could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022 at nearly the same rate, reveals a new Oxfam brief May 23.
“Profiting from Pain” is published as the World Economic Forum — the exclusive get-together of the global elite in Davos — takes place for the first time face-to-face since COVID-19, a period during which billionaires have enjoyed a huge boost to their fortunes.
“Billionaires are arriving in Davos to celebrate an incredible surge in their fortunes. The pandemic and now the steep increases in food and energy prices have, simply put, been a bonanza for them. Meanwhile, decades of progress on extreme poverty are now in reverse and millions of people are facing impossible rises in the cost of simply staying alive,” said Gabriela Bucher, Executive Director of Oxfam International.
The brief shows that 573 people became new billionaires during the pandemic, at the rate of one every 30 hours. We expect this year that 263 million more people will crash into extreme poverty, at a rate of a million people every 33 hours.
Billionaires’ wealth has risen more in the first 24 months of COVID-19 than in 23 years combined. The total wealth of the world’s billionaires is now equivalent to 13.9% of global GDP. This is a three-fold increase (up from 4.4%) in 2000.
Bucher said:
“Billionaires’ fortunes have not increased because they are now smarter or working harder. Workers are working harder, for less pay and in worse conditions.
“The super-rich have rigged the system with impunity for decades and they are now reaping the benefits.
“They have seized a shocking amount of the world’s wealth as a result of privatization and monopolies, gutting regulation and workers’ rights while stashing their cash in tax havens — all with the complicity of governments.
“Meanwhile, millions of others are skipping meals, turning off the heating, falling behind on bills and wondering what they can possibly do next to survive. Across East Africa, one person is likely dying every minute from hunger.
“This grotesque inequality is breaking the bonds that hold us together as humanity. It is divisive, corrosive and dangerous. This is inequality that literally kills.”
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Oxfam’s new research also reveals that corporations in the energy, food and pharmaceutical sectors — where monopolies are especially common — are posting record-high profits, even as wages have barely budged and workers struggle with decades-high prices amid COVID-19.
The fortunes of food and energy billionaires have risen by $453 billion in the last two years, equivalent to $1 billion every two days.
Five of the largest energy companies (BP, Shell, TotalEnergies, Exxon and Chevron) are together making $2,600 profit every second, and there are now 62 new food billionaires.
Together with just three other companies, the Cargill family controls 70% of the global agricultural market.
Last year Cargill made the biggest profit in its history ($5 billion in net income) and the company is expected to beat its record profit again in 2022. The Cargill family alone now has 12 billionaires, up from eight before the pandemic.
Producing fear, Notice how they talk about cases & not deaths.
Notice how they talk about more transmissible & not more harmful.
Notice how they want to perpetuate fear at all costs.
Scotland, Wales and N Ireland have kept masks throughout.
They have far higher infection rates than England.
How does that work, eh?
I’ve communicated with many people since yesterday’s briefing.
They’re at their wits end.
They’ve had enough.
They’re done with the scar ants, the fearmongering, the threats – all of it.
They want it to stop!
A friend of mine recently vaccinated her 16 yr old son. He then suddenly began
having heart problems, and the doctors told her that it was from salmonella poisoning from onions.
They fully believe that.
Reality.
Trying to make the certificate condition to buy/sell. Willing to destroy your existence. Demanding of total control and all rights including your life.
Do as you are told otherwise you will be punished. Own nothing and be happy, with your phone and lab-top explore the world. Isolated, living in a small room, and anything the do not like you get blocked, no contacts using artificial intelligence. Not even a real human at the other side.
Lies, censorship, blackmail, coercions, corruption, intimidation, job loss, wealth transfer.
No end in sight
After the election of a new president in the US
History & freedom
Revolution & Transformation. Re-establishing freewill.
The Change Agents for EU and Globalists who ‘Lead beyond authority’.
The Change Agents for EU and Globalists who ‘Lead beyond authority’.
Digital identity, digital twins, programmable central bank digital currency, a social credit system, human
augmentation and the Internet of Bodies (IoB). These are all part of the dystopian future being rolled out by
the globalist cabal as the “solutions” to all the world’s problems and have created.
The story behind man the build flying disks.
Cabal or the Deep State & Alien connection
The history of our solar system and the role of the Draco in it.
We are not alone, there are others, soulless beings, same body but have no souls, not human.
Humanityandearth.com:
De-population attempts?
The great food reset.
The physical Universe.
Antarctica and the hollow planets!
Is planet Earth hell?
Humanity & History!
Health and Ageing!
Mind control, US destruction from inside out!
Africa, Marduk’s Bluff? & Alien response & Putin.
The Biofield and low frequent EM field/waves.
Liberalism now lost?
Dulce, New Mexico, whistle-blower rapport by Thomas Edwin Castello.
Numbers 3, 7, 9,11,13, 33, 39.and the Free- Masons & illuminati.
Loosh, energy generated by all organic life forms.
Mad Science from Dr Mercola publication.
End of the Western Democracy and liberalism.
energy-from-space.com links:
Use of frequencies and effects on our bio energy field that surrounds our body.
A new U.S. & Alien agreement as claimed by Israeli-Scientist?
US considering admitting working with Aliens and do research on Mars.
NWO & WHO coupe, the Alien card.
China and free energy Technology.
Free magnetic energy generator.
Tesla and wireless electricity.
Healing and Channeling device.
Big companies who brought us Toxins, food and climate changes.
Finite Element Model for Atmospheric IR-Absorption Joseph Reynen. (CO2)
“There is class war, right, but it is my class, the class of the rich, that is waging war.
Free energy and T. E. Bearden, Ph.D
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