The title is self-explanatory and obvious for anyone who looks at case charts. I would encourage you to look at California in particular, which has been stringently locked down for a long time. But here is some research on the topic as well.
This paper comes from a part of Denmark. (Medrxiv Paper) This area had a lockdown in November due to concerns about mutations found in CV-19 in mink. Other areas of Denmark had no similar restrictions. While cases fell in the area studied they also fell in the other parts of Denmark and were declining before the restrictions were imposed. The authors’ conclusion is that voluntary behavior changes were likely adequate and that the effectiveness of lockdowns has been overstated.
This paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that the loss of jobs accompanying the lockdown restrictions will have a substantial effect on health in future years. (NBER Paper) Building on previous research showing that employment losses, during recessions for example, increase mortality and decrease life expectancy, the authors estimate that the CV-19 lockdown-induced loss of jobs is a shock 2 to 5 times larger than the typical one and will have a correspondingly greater effect on mortality. They estimate that an additional 890,000 deaths will occur over the next 15 years. I believe that will be substantially more deaths than CV-19 actually caused, but because these people won’t have CV-19, they don’t count. The impact, as you would expect, will be greatest among minorities.
And another study from the NBER focuses on deaths of despair. These also stem from lockdowns and the accompanying terrorization campaign. (NBER Paper) The authors attempted to identify excess deaths, both from CV-19 and from other causes, during the epidemic, by age group. They found at least 30,000 non-CV-19 deaths, primarily among young and middle-aged men, with a focus on opioid mortality. That is a lot of lost years of life.
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More solid studies demonstrating what we now know is obvious. Our latest lockdown order in California is based on some specious evidence that the ICU capacity is above 85% (which in and of itself is pretty normal for flu season) and we must close businesses, outdoor dining, etc. Here in San Francisco, they just extended the lockdown indefinitely. Our ICU capacity citywide – 63%. Even with their constantly changing goalposts, there’s nothing out of the ordinary here, other than a complete terror campaign by our politicians and health departments. When this subsides (well. it already has), they’ll pull out the new “variant” or “strain” to whip the public into another frenzy.
How large is the damage to the Danish mink population? 🙂
All part of the intellectual dishonesty of the overall “model”. Putting a $ value on those excess deaths is too hard, too arbitrary. So just assume “Zero”.