The surgeon and public policy researcher, Dr. Makary, said that because the virus “profoundly skewed towards older people and people with co morbidities,” sweeping restrictions should not have been implemented country wide.
“Yet we continued to treat this as if everybody was at equal risk, and we continue to do that today.” “In schools, where children bear the biggest burden of the restrictions in this country.
The John Hopkins study was written by economists who heavily criticized the “public health effects” of lockdowns.
“They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal democracy,” the report said.
“Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.”
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