Covid Lockdowns - Do They Work? Do They Cause Problems?
March 21, 2020
“Domestic Abuse On The Rise Amid Reactionary Coronavirus Lockdown Orders” by Brock Simmons for The gateway Pundit
March 30, 2020
“WORSE THAN THE GREAT DEPRESSION!… St. Louis Fed Estimates Coronavirus Lockdown could Bring 32% Unemployment — Great Depression Brought 25% Unemployment” by The Gateway Pundit
April 2, 2020
“HUGE! Total Cost of Coronavirus Shutdowns and Lockdowns Estimated at $34 Trillion – More than the US GDP!” by The Gateway Pundit
April 6, 2020
“Burglaries Up 75% In New York City; Seattle, Houston, San Francisco Deal With Rising Crime Amid Lockdown Orders” by The Gateway Pundit
April 9, 2020
“We Want Names! President Trump Says “Two Very Smart People” Came into His Office and Urged Him to Lock Down Economy or 2.2 Million Americans Would Die (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
April 10, 2020
“California Got Played: IHME Hack Ali Mokdad Says California Is Over the Coronavirus Hump – They Shut Down the State of 39.5 Million for 584 Deaths!” by The Gateway Pundit
April 11, 2020
“FROM THE NUMBERS: To Date Only 446 People Under Age 20 Have Contracted Coronavirus in Massachusetts and ZERO Deaths Under 40 But Schools Still Closed” by The Gateway Pundit
April 19, 2020
“Sweden Says Battling Coronavirus Without Destroying Economy Is Proving Effective as Numbers Stabilize” by The Gateway Pundit
April 20, 2022
“Government Sanctioned Suicide: Study Finds Coming Economic Crisis Could Lead to 831,600 Suicides – Or 13 Times the Number of Coronavirus Deaths” by The Gateway Pundit
April 22, 2020
“NY Gov. Cuomo: Suicides and Increased Domestic Violence Worth Price of Coronavirus Lockdown to Save His Own Life (Video)” by Kristinn Taylor for The Gateway Pundit
April 23, 2020
“Sweden Resisted Suicidal Economic Lockdown – Now Stockholm Expected to Reach “Herd Immunity” in Weeks” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 24, 2020
“SHOCK REPORT FROM SWEDISH REPORTER: Sweden Will Reach Herd Immunity in 2 Wks – Countries that Locked Down “Just Postponed Deaths” and Ruined Economies! #FireFauci” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“SHOCKING: 80% of Swine Flu Victims were Under 65 – No Lockdown… 84% of Coronavirus Victims Are Over 60 – Lockdown Required” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 28, 2020
“Losing It: 72% Of Locked-Down Americans Say They’ll Reach ‘Breaking Point’ By Mid-June” by StudyFinds
April 29, 2020
“The Netherlands Joins Switzerland: Will Reopen Schools Based on Findings that Children are Not at Risk of Coronavirus and Not Carriers” by The Gateway Pundit
May 19, 2020
“End the Lockdowns: Rural Counties in America See Less Coronavirus Deaths and Lower Frequency” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“END THE LOCKDOWN: New Medical Analysis of 12 Global Coronavirus Studies Finds 9 of 12 Show COVID-19 Fatality Rate Similar to Seasonal Flu” by The Gateway Pundit
June 5, 2020
“Over 1,000 ‘Health Experts’ Sign Letter of Support for Black Lives Matter Mob but Conservative Protesters are Racist and Must Stay at Home due to COVID-19” by The Gateway Pundit
June 19, 2020
“FINALLY! Fauci Admits Widespread Lockdowns Not Needed In U.S.” by Eric A. Blair for The Gateway Pundit
July 13, 2020
“Study from the New England Journal of Medicine Shows the Only Reason for Keeping Children Home from School is Politics” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
September 3, 2020
“US Divorce Rates, Depression Soar Amid COVID-19 Pandemic” by The Gateway Pundit
September 16, 2020
“Sweden Records Lowest Level Of COVID-19 Cases Since March — With No Lockdown” by The Gateway Pundit
October 16, 2020
“FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths” by The Gateway Pundit
January 24, 2021
“CA Gov. Newsom Hides Key Covid Data Used to Justify Endless Lockdowns, ‘Too Complex and Would Confuse the Public’” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
May 5, 2021
“Most Vaccinated Country on Earth Closes Schools and Sports as COVID Cases Surge — 35% of New Cases Are Fully Vaccinated Residents” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
May 7, 2021
“‘Look, I’m Safe to Be Around’ – New Covid Wristbands Are a Way to Prove You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated” by Cristina Laila for the gateway Pundit
July 14, 2021
“US Drug-Overdose Deaths Soared to a Record 93,000 in 2020 During Covid Lockdowns” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
August 23, 2021
“Dr. Fauci’s Economic Lockdowns Killed 228,000 Infants in Low and Middle-Income Countries — 100,000 Children Will Starve” by The Gateway Pundit
September 16, 2021
“Yelp data shows 60% of business closures due to the coronavirus pandemic are now permanent” by CNBC
September 19, 2021
“Data From Yelp Shows 60% of All Businesses that Shut Down During COVID Are Now Permanently Closed” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
September 21, 2021
““It’s Never Been This Bad:” Stunning New Research Shows How Much Child Obesity Has Skyrocketed Since Pandemic Began” by The Gateway Pundit
December 29, 2021
“Fauci Moves Goalposts Again, Says Shutting Down the Country is Bad For People’s Health (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
February 2, 2022
“Another Fauci Failure: Johns Hopkins Study Finds Fauci’s “Ill-Founded” Lockdowns Only Reduced Mortality Rates by 0.2%” by The Gateway Pundit
February 3, 2022
“Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to End COVID-19 Emergency Declaration in the State – Will Deal with COVID-19 the Same as Flu” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
February 12, 2022
“Wow! Last Week the “Experts” Admitted Lockdowns Did Not Reduce Mortality Rates — NOW They Admit Masking Was Mostly Worthless” by The Gateway Pundit
April 14, 2022
“Dr. Fauci Praises China, Says: “You Use Lockdowns to Get People Vaccinated” (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
April 28, 2020
“Majority of Americans Say They Will Reach Their ‘Breaking Point’ With Stay-at-Home Orders By June” by The Gateway Pundit
July 27, 2022
“Psychopath Tony Fauci — The Father of Lockdowns — Now Claims “I Didn’t Recommend Locking Anything Down” by The Gateway Pundit
October 1, 2022
“Did the COVID-19 pandemic lead to changes in our personality traits?” by Medical News Today
October 8, 2022
“CDC Report: Record Number of Children Hospitalized After Their Immunity Was Weakened by Social Distancing and Masks” by The Gateway Pundit
October 7, 2022
“30,000 Americans Estimated Killed by COVID Medical Mismanagement by April 2020” by Rober W. Malone, MD, MS
October 13, 2022
“Lying about Covid? Many Americans did so to feel ‘normal’ amid pandemic, study finds” by The Miami Herald
October 24, 2022
“Test scores show historic COVID setbacks for kids across US” by Collin Binkley for the Associated Press
The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest look yet at the scale of the crisis.
In other words, the lock downs caused educational setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities.
“COVID-19 and Mental Health: Global Consequences and CAM Approaches” by Psychiatric Times Vol 39, Issue 10
As the virus that causes COVID-19 illness (SARS-CoV-2) continues to mutate, we continue to see high rates of COVID-19 illness with concomitant neuropsychiatric symptoms including depressed mood, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental health problems. Medical and psychiatric comorbidity are expected to have serious long-term consequences for global public health and mental health. . .
Millions of individuals experience depression, anxiety, and worsening or new substance use disorders (SUDs) associated with the prolonged social isolation associated of the pandemic.2 A systematic review of studies published between January 1, 2020, and January 29, 2021, estimated that an additional 53 million cases of major depressive disorder (MDD) (an increase of 27%) and an additional 76 million cases of anxiety disorders (an increase of 25%) globally.2
The mental health impact of the pandemic has been greater among women and younger individuals than among men and older individuals. . .
The impact of the pandemic on the mental health of children and adolescents has been especially severe. . .
October 26, 2022
“School Closures Were a Failed Policy - America's pandemic learning losses are real. We need to see that reality clearly to do better next time” by the Atlantic
In “For those still trying to duck covid, the isolation is worse than ever” The Washington Post takes the position that,
it’s time to throw caution to the wind and masks in the garbage. . .
The available vaccines and medicines have made things safe enough, for enough people, that we can finally close the book on 2020 and start partying — or, at least, living — like it’s 2019 again.
October 28, 2022
“Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids” by Bianca Vazquez Toness and Sharon Lurye, AP Education Writers
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children’s well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away their parents’ jobs, sickening their families and teachers, and adding chaos and fear to their daily lives.
The scale of the disruption to American kids’ education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press. The data provide the most comprehensive look yet at how much schoolchildren have fallen behind academically.
The analysis found the average student lost more than half a school year of learning in math and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading – with some district averages slipping by more than double those amounts, or worse.
Online learning played a major role, but students lost significant ground even where they returned quickly to schoolhouses, especially in math scores in low-income communities.
“When you have a massive crisis, the worst effects end up being felt by the people with the least resources,” said Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, who compiled and analyzed the data along with Harvard economist Thomas Kane.
Some educators have objected to the very idea of measuring learning loss after a crisis that has killed more than 1 million Americans. Reading and math scores don’t tell the entire story about what’s happening with a child, but they’re one of the only aspects of children’s development reliably measured nationwide…
In Memphis, Tennessee, where nearly 80% of students are poor, students lost the equivalent of 70% of a school year in reading and more than a year in math, according to the analysis. The district’s Black students lost a year-and-one-third in math and two-thirds of a year in reading…
The amount of learning that students lost – or gained, in rare cases – over the last three years varied widely. Poverty and time spent in remote learning affected learning loss, and learning losses were greater in districts that remained online longer, according to Kane and Reardon’s analysis. But neither was a perfect predictor of declines in reading and math.
In some districts, students lost more than two years of math learning, according to the data. Hopewell, Virginia, a school system of 4,000 students who are mostly low-income and 60% Black, showed an average loss of 2.29 years of school…
The district began offering in-person learning in March 2021, but three-quarters of students remained home. “There was so much fear of the effects of COVID,” he said. “Families here were just hunkered down.”
When schools resumed in the fall, the virus swept through Hopewell, and half of all students stayed home either sick or in quarantine, McClain said. A full 40% of students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 18 days or more.
The pandemic brought other challenges unrelated to remote learning.
In Rochester, New Hampshire, students lost nearly two years in reading even though schools offered in-person learning most of the 2020-2021 school year. It was the largest literacy decline among all the districts in the analysis.
The 4,000-student district, where most are white and nearly half live in poverty, had to close schools in November 2020 when too few teachers could report for work, Superintendent Kyle Repucci said. Students studied online until March 2021, and when schools reopened, many chose to stay with remote learning, Repucci said…
In Los Angeles, school leaders shuttered classrooms for the entire 2020-2021 academic year, yet students held their ground in reading.
It’s hard to tell what explains the vastly different outcomes in some states. In California, where students on average stayed steady or only marginally declined, it could suggest that educators there were better at teaching over Zoom or the state made effective investments in technology, Reardon said.
But the differences could also be explained by what happened outside of school. “I think a lot more of the variation has to do with things that were outside of a school’s control,” Reardon said…
The implications for kids’ futures are alarming: Lower test scores are predictors of lower wages, plus higher rates of incarceration and teen pregnancy, Kane said.
It doesn’t take Harvard research to convince parents whose children are struggling to read or learn algebra that something needs to be done…
November 4, 2022
“Deaths caused by alcohol use in the US spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic, CDC data shows” by CNN
“Increase in drunk driving deaths linked to COVID Pandemic” by WWLP