The lockdown left screw ups

 The Lid:

Study: Lockdowns ‘Single Biggest Public Health Mistake, Possibly Of All History’

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The Rand Corporation and economists from the University of Southern California have released a new study examining the effectiveness of pandemic lockdowns, using data from 43 countries and all 50 US states.

“We fail to find that shelter-in-place policies saved lives,” the authors report. In the weeks following the implementation of these policies, excess mortality actually increases—even though it had typically been declining before the orders took effect.

And across all countries, the study finds that a one-week increase in the length of stay-at-home policies corresponds with 2.7 more excess deaths per 100,000 people.
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Before this study, it should have been obvious.  The states that resisted the lockdown policies had better outcomes almost across the board.  Not only did they have fewer deaths, but their economies also surged ahead of the lockdown states in ways that were hard to ignore.  While Biden falsely accused Texas of "neanderthal thinking" the rate of cases in Texas went down dramatically when the masking requirement was lifted.  States with the harshest lockdowns had the worst outcomes in dealing with the virus.