Loading ...THE EVIDENCE IS CLEAR LOCKDOWNS ( AND MASKS) DO NOT WORK !
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Article 1 ( with graphs ) from many MSM Sources
Article 2 from none other than J P Morgan Chase
https://www.theblaze.com/conservative-review/horowitz-analysis-j-p-morgan-shows-lockdowns-dont-help
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Article 3 Wall Street Journal
THE FAILED EXPERIMENT OF COVID LOCKDOWNS
Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public well being—first,…
in March and April, the lockdown of the economic system to arrest the unfold of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economic system. The outcomes are in. Counterintuitive although it could be, statistical evaluation reveals that locking down the economic system didn’t comprise the illness’s unfold and reopening it didn’t unleash a second wave of infections.
Contemplating that lockdowns are economically expensive and create well-documented long-term public-health penalties past Covid, imposing them seems to have been a big coverage error. Originally, when little was identified, officers acted in methods they thought prudent. However now proof proves that lockdowns had been an costly therapy with critical unintended effects and no profit to society.
TrendMacro, my analytics agency, tallied the cumulative variety of reported circumstances of Covid-19 in every state and the District of Columbia as a share of inhabitants, primarily based on knowledge from state and native well being departments aggregated by the Covid Monitoring Venture. We then in contrast that with the timing and depth of the lockdown in every jurisdiction. That’s measured not by the mandates put in place by authorities officers, however relatively by observing what folks in every jurisdiction truly did, together with their baseline habits earlier than the lockdowns. That is captured in extremely detailed anonymized cellphone monitoring knowledge supplied by Google and others and tabulated by the College of Maryland’s Transportation Institute right into a “Social Distancing Index.”
Measuring from the beginning of the yr to every state’s level of most lockdown—which vary from April 5 to April 18—it seems that lockdowns correlated with a higher unfold of the virus. States with longer, stricter lockdowns additionally had bigger Covid outbreaks. The 5 locations with the harshest lockdowns—the District of Columbia, New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts—had the heaviest caseloads.
It could possibly be that strict lockdowns had been imposed as a response to already extreme outbreaks. However the shocking detrimental correlation, whereas statistically weak, persists even when excluding states with the heaviest caseloads. And it makes no distinction if the evaluation consists of different potential explanatory components comparable to inhabitants density, age, ethnicity, prevalence of nursing properties, basic well being or temperature. The one issue that appears to make a demonstrable distinction is the depth of mass-transit use.
We ran the experiment a second time to look at the consequences on caseloads of the reopening that started in mid-April. We used the identical methodology, however began from every state’s peak of lockdown and prolonged to July 31. Confirming the primary experiment, there was a bent (although pretty weak) for states that opened up essentially the most to have the lightest caseloads. The states that had the large summer time flare-ups within the so-called “Sunbelt second wave”—Arizona, California, Florida and Texas—are under no circumstances essentially the most opened up, politicized headlines however.
The lesson shouldn’t be that lockdowns made the unfold of Covid-19 worse—though the uncooked proof would possibly recommend that—however that lockdowns in all probability didn’t assist, and opening up didn’t damage. This defies frequent sense. In concept, the unfold of an infectious illness should be controllable by quarantine. Evidently not in follow, although we’re conscious of no researcher who understands why not.
We’re not the one researchers to have found this statistical relationship. We first printed a model of those findings in April, across the identical time comparable findings appeared in these pages. In July, a publication of the Lancet printed analysis that discovered comparable outcomes wanting throughout nations relatively than U.S. states. “An extended time previous to implementation of any lockdown was related to a decrease variety of detected circumstances,” the examine concludes. These findings have now been enhanced by subtle measures of precise social distancing, and knowledge from the reopening section.
There are experimental controls that each one this analysis lacks. There are not any observable situations during which there have been both whole lockdowns or no lockdowns in any respect. However there’s no escaping the proof that, at minimal, heavy lockdowns had been no simpler than gentle ones, and that opening up so much was no extra dangerous than opening up just a little. So the place’s the science that may justify the heavy lockdowns many public-health officers are nonetheless demanding?
With the proof we now possess, even essentially the most risk-averse and single-minded public-health officers ought to hesitate earlier than demanding the following lockdown and inflicting the following financial recession.
Mr. Luskin is chief investment officer of TrendMacro.