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More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions (Lockdowns, Restrictions, Closures)

Paul Elias Alexander / November 30, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 176 minute read

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What follows is the current totality of the body of evidence (available comparative studies and high-level pieces of evidence, reporting, and discussion) on COVID-19 lockdowns, masks, school closures, and mask mandates. There is no conclusive evidence supporting claims that any of these restrictive measures worked to reduce viral transmission or deaths. Lockdowns were ineffective, school closures were ineffective, mask mandates were ineffective, and masks themselves were and are ineffective and harmful.

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Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives

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Denis Rancourt / September 6, 2022 / Law, Policy, Public Health / 16 minute read

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The regulatory imposition and enforcement of statewide shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders conclusively correlates with larger health-status-corrected, per capita, all-cause mortality by state. This result is inconsistent with the hypothesis that lockdowns saved lives.

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The Deeper History of ‘Social Distancing’ — the Western Term for Lockdown (封锁)

Michael Senger / September 13, 2022 / History / 24 minute read

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One way or another, the ancient policy of “lockdown” in response to an outbreak thus came full circle. Having been thoroughly discredited as counterproductive by 20th-century epidemiological research, this medieval policy of lockdown (封锁) was kept alive in China

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Lockdowns Fail: They Do Not Control the Virus

Brownstone Institute / July 15, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 29 minute read

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The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real-time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The question is whether and to what extent lockdowns worked.

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The Silence of Economists about Lockdowns

Jayanta Bhattacharya,

Mikko Packalen / August 31, 2021 / Economics / 24 minute read

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The lockdowns of Spring of 2020 were likely responsible for much more of the decline in economic activity than the consensus among economists admits.

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Lockdowns vs. Focused Protection: The Debate Between Lipstich and Bhattacharya

Brownstone Institute / November 29, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 40 minute read

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On November 6, 2020, the Journal of the American Medical Association sponsored an important debate between Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya and Harvard’s Marc Lisitch over the policy response to the pandemic. They have very different points of view, with Jay favoring “focussed protection” and traditional public health measures, while Marc is on the side of the novel “non-pharmaceutical intervention” side, e.g. lockdowns.

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The 2014 Template to Export Lockdowns

Michael Senger / July 28, 2022 / History, Media / 5 minute read

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The significance of this pro-lockdown campaign in 2014 can’t be overstated. Even among lockdown skeptics, the widely-held view is that the world essentially bumbled into lockdown in 2020. Although China’s global lockdown propaganda campaign utilizing tens of thousands of bots in virtually every language and dialect across the world is well documented, moderates have argued that this campaign merely represented China celebrating its own “success” against Covid—whether real or not—rather than any premeditated plan to export lockdown as policy.

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The Absurdity of Lockdowners Who Support China’s Anti-Lockdown Protests

Michael Senger / December 5, 2022 / Media, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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Xi Jinping sees the concepts of democracy and human rights as mere propaganda that western elites use to further their own self-interest. So long as they approve of a policy, then it’s not a human rights violation, but if they oppose it, then it is.

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The ‘Pure Fear’ Excuse for Lockdowns

Michael Senger / April 20, 2023 / Government, History, Public Health, Society / 11 minute read

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This interminable coverup of reality, being fundamental to the origins of totalitarianism, may have been what the CCP intended from the start.

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The Dragnet in Lombardy: Patient Zero of Lockdowns

Michael Senger / August 4, 2022 / History, Policy / 21 minute read

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By way of one Health Minister Roberto Speranza, on whose order 50,000 Lombardy residents were placed under lockdown on February 21, 2020, the first lockdown in the modern western world. Within weeks, lockdown had spread to cities across Italy, until the entire nation was placed on lockdown on March 9. By April 2020, more than half the world’s population—some 3.9 billion people—had been placed under lockdown.

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