COVID Lockdowns Cost ‘Millions of Years of Life Lost’: Leading Scientist

Sep 2, 2022 by Jill

by Ben Johnson, Washington Stand:

Mass lockdowns, the West’s preferred response to COVID-19, cost millions of years of lost lives and “harmed nearly every single poor person on the face of the Earth,” concluded a leading scientist.

Public health authorities in the West, led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, encouraged a series of now-abandoned practices — including social distancing, wearing cloth masks, and avoiding human contact to the greatest extent possible — to combat the spread of the coronavirus. “Elective” doctor visits, public schooling, and all “non-essential” economic activity ground to a halt in the frustrated goal of achieving zero COVID transmission. Data trickling in from disparate parts of the culture reveal how this blunt force regimen did an untold amount of harm.

“The lockdowns harmed nearly every single poor person on the face of the Earth, and it did it in a myriad of ways,” Fauci’s bête noire, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, told “Washington Watch” guest host Joseph Backholm on Tuesday.

In March 2021, the U.N. estimated that that 239,000 mothers and children had “died from starvation” and lack of immunization from other diseases in just six Asian countries because of the “dislocation caused by the lockdown.” “The estimate is that 80 million people worldwide have suffered from hunger and starvation as a consequence of the economic dislocation,” said Bhattacharya, one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration and a professor of medicine at Stanford University.

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