Mistakes were not made, crimes were committed

A new study has been published that has finally done a cost benefit analysis of lockdowns.  To no sane person’s surprise, the researchers found the cost of lockdowns far exceeded the benefits.

He said: “It demonstrates that lockdowns were a failed promise. They had negligible health effects but disastrous economic, social and political costs to society. Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times.”

When lockdowns started only a moron could not understand that they would be destructive.  The hope was that they would save more lives than they destroyed.  Trading one life for another is ethically wrong but this was not even a case of killing one to save many.  We had no reason to believe the lockdowns would save a single life when they were enacted.

Shutting down some businesses while others were left open just funneled everyone in to the same spot thereby increasing the chances of exposure.  It was ridiculous to think that this would slow the spread of the virus and it did not.  Even if governments were stupid enough to believe in lockdowns by the end of the first one it was obvious they had failed.  That is why I wrote this in October of 2020 before the second lockdown.

Lockdowns did not “flatten the curve” they made it sharper.  Restricting the movement of people during the summer only served to give the virus less healthy hosts in the winter.  Our governments adopted policies that had the opposite of the intended effects and increased the death total.  This does not even account for non-covid deaths that we know occurred because of the lockdown.  In the US deaths due to Heart attacks, Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s peaked during the lockdowns.  Suicides peaked and the unemployment that was caused will lead to future premature deaths.  Lockdowns on this scale had never happened before.  It was easy to predict that they would lead to deaths and it was highly uncertain that they would prevent a single covid death yet we did them anyway.  We knew the therapy could have deadly side effects and we used it without any evidence that it would be in any way beneficial.  What the hell ever happened to “first do no harm”?

While I am glad that science has finally defined the enormous cost we were forced to pay I cannot agree with their conclusion above.  Lockdowns were not a policy mistake.  The government knew that lockdowns would be destructive and they did them anyway.  If they truly thought they were doing the right thing they would not have hired teams of people to censor lockdowns opponents, as Boris Johnson did in England.  A real emergency does not require marketing or censorship.

Success is determined by the yardstick you use to measure it.  Lockdowns were a public health policy disaster but they were never meant to protect public health.  Lockdowns had 2 purposes;

1. To get us to accept that our rights can be suspended any time the government declares an emergency. Do your really think we would be seeing 15 minute cities now if we had not accepted house arrest to combat cold and flu season?
2. To force us to accept mandatory vaccination as a condition of ending the lockdowns. Now every time Pfizer wants to test something new we will be offered the same choice; get vaccinated or lose your job and remain under house arrest.  Trials are no longer necessary you a guilty until proven vaccinated.

Academics might be too afraid to tell the whole truth but I am not.  Lockdowns were not a mistake they were a premeditated crime.  If we do not punish the criminals lockdowns will return.