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More Evidence of the Phenomenal Benefits of Lockdowns

By March 16, 2021Commentary1 min read

Two charts one showing the relationship between strictness of lockdown and mortality rates.  Zero correlation, meaning being stricter or looser did not in general affect your per capita death rate.  The other shows lockdown strictness versus unemployment rate.  Here there is a clear relationship, less lockdown equals more employment.

Kevin Roche

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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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  • Dan Riser says:

    All they wanted was for people to become more dependent on government. Heard it a lot that people claimed to be doing better on unemployment and the 600 bucks than they could have working. They failed to see what the government teat takes away…your freedom

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