Effectiveness of Covid Countermeasures - Restrictions, Lockdowns and Mandates
“How effective were all the restrictions, lockdowns and mandates against covid-19?”
Answer: They failed miserably and completely.
Over 70,000 of the world’s leading infectious disease doctors, medical scientists, researchers and covid-treating physicians agree that lockdowns, restrictions, distancing and mask mandates were a huge mistake and caused far more harm than good.
Yet the vast majority of governments all over the world took the exact opposite actions - they mandated restrictions and draconian measures for EVERYONE, without knowing or following the true science of covid-19.
As a result, there have been MORE illnesses and deaths from government lockdowns, restrictions and mandates than from this virus.
There have been more illnesses and deaths from undiagnosed and untreated worse diseases such as cancers, heart disease, lung disease, tuberculosis and others, than from covid. These undiagnosed and untreated diseases were a direct result of the fear and lockdowns surrounding covid. Tens of millions of people all over the world weren't treated for these deadly diseases because of all the attention on covid.
Every year, 3 Million children starve to death. Because of lockdowns, many millions MORE children have died of starvation, according to the UN, UNICEF and WHO. More children have starved to death than have died from covid - yet very little attention or government “mandates” are brought to bear on this issue.
Suicides have skyrocketed as a result of lockdowns and isolation, to include teens. “But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools. We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess than we are seeing deaths from COVID.” - Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield
Drug and alcohol abuse have also increased greatly, as have domestic abuse and violence.
Tens of thousands of elderly people in nursing homes have died prematurely from loneliness, because they haven’t been able to see their families.
Were government lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates and other restrictions effective against covid? The answer is a conclusive, irrefutable NO.
Let’s hear from the true experts and see what all legitimate studies show:
“Instead of understanding the pandemic, we were encouraged to fear it. Instead of life, we got lockdowns and death. We got delayed cancer diagnoses, worse cardiovascular-disease outcomes, deteriorating mental health, and a lot more collateral public-health damage from lockdown. Children, the elderly and the working class were the hardest hit by what can only be described as the biggest public-health fiasco in history.” - Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Harvard epidemiologist
“The government’s anti-COVID19 measures] are grotesque, absurd and very dangerous. The life expectancy of millions is being shortened. The horrifying impact on the world economy threatens the existence of countless people. The consequences on medical care are profound. All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide based on nothing but a spook.”
“We Need to stop following the Pied Piper on COVID. The time has come for homo sapiens to stand up and start becoming humans again. This scare, this global panic has caused man to lose reason, to stop thinking and to follow the Piper’s call, and we are being led to our downfall.” - Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, former head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and one of the most cited research scientists in German history.
“We know that 95% of the population has practically minimal risk. It's unlikely that in the current situation we are really saving lives. I think we're killing people by following some of these measures forever. It just wrecks people's lives, it creates unemployment, it leaves people with no hope. I believe that in the current situation, prolonged lockdowns are going to do enormous harm to health and more.” - Dr. John Ioannidis, Prof. of Medicine at Stanford University, Prof. of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, Director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center
“The current [covid] strategy has been utterly disastrous. COVID-19 lockdowns were the biggest public health mistake we've ever made. The harm to people is catastrophic.” - Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
“The consequences of government-enforced lockdowns killed more Canadians under the age of 65 than the COVID-19 virus itself.” - Report by Statistics Canada
“Evaluating the Effect of Lockdowns On All-Cause Mortality During the COVID Era: Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives” - John A. Johnson and Dr. Denis Rancourt, Harvard University
“Lockdowns and school closures denied children exposure to environmental pathogen, and as such limited optimal training of their innate immune system antibodies & natural killer cells (NK); risk to RSV etc. By locking down and closing schools and the ridiculous specious non-scientific masking, we have damaged the immune system of children and now they are at risk of RSV and a host of other pathogen. - Dr. Paul Alexander, epidemiologist
“Analyses indicate that at least a third, and possibly more than half, of the observed excess mortality may be caused by the applied measures [government mandates and lockdowns]. Measure-based mortality will proceed and may even accelerate if the fear-mongering stays and no end to the nightmare is presented to a now chronically overloaded population.” - Dr. Daniel Jeanmonod
“Grounded in dubious science and cowardly politics, the grievous wounds we have inflicted upon ourselves with the Covid-19 lockdown are becoming more evident every day.
“Tens of thousands more people [in the UK] will die of cancer due to counter-measures for [covid]. [Covid] overall has resulted in a similar number of fatalities to those we'd expect during a bad influenza season. In this crazy world, citizens who thought they lived in a sane, civilised country are treated like imbeciles, unable to make everyday risk assessments for themselves. Meanwhile, no one dares to admit the lockdown itself may be completely misguided, because then everything that has been done in its name will be seen to have been pointless.
“For months it has been clear that our own government and administrations internationally are in a fantasy world. Yet rather than face the uncomfortable truth we may have to learn to live with Covid-19, politicians are intent on pursuing policies which have devastating real-world effects.”
“We know the death rate globally is very low, between 0.1 and 0.5% of those infected. We know that the majority of deaths occurred in people with pre-existing conditions and we also know that in England, the median age of those who died from Covid is above 80. Every death is sad but should the country have been brought to such an abrupt halt - with catastrophic consequences?” - Dr. John Lee
“Lockdowns managed to destroy countless businesses, upend human rights, kill millions, cast hundreds of millions deeper into poverty, strain the mental health of billions, and transfer trillions of dollars in wealth from the world’s poorest to the very richest - all while failing to slow the spread of a virus that was subsequently confirmed to have an infection fatality rate under 0.2%.” - Jeffrey A. Tucker, President of the Brownstone Institute
“Lockdown was a panic measure and a monumental mistake on a global scale, the cure was worse than the disease. I never want to see national lockdown again. We absolutely should never return to a position where children cannot play or go to school. I believe the harm lockdown is doing to our education, health care access, and broader aspects of our economy and society will turn out to be at least as great as the harm done by Covid-19.” - Prof. Mark Woolhouse
“I think lockdowns saved no lives. There is no doubt in my mind that when we come to look back on this, the damage done by lockdowns will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor. I think it may have cost lives. Social damage – domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism – has been extreme. And then you have those who were not treated for other conditions.” - Prof Michael Levitt, Stanford University and Nobel Prize winner
“Coronavirus shutdowns are a mass casualty incident with exponentially growing negative health consequences to millions of non-COVID patients… Keeping schools and universities closed is incalculably detrimental for children, teenagers, and young adults for decades to come. It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm to people’s health with a continued shutdown. The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight.” - Letter signed by 600 US doctors
“Turns out that young kids do NOT make covid infection worse, in fact, they actually lead to reduction in hospitalization and ICU admission for adults who got covid. Locking them down was unnecessary.” - Dr. Jennifer Brown
“160+ Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted.”
“Covid Policy Killed More Than Virus, Justice Needed. We killed most of the people with the deadly COVID policy and had we done NOTHING, nothing, save strongly protecting the vulnerable and isolating only sick unwell, symptomatic persons, then we would have lost far fewer persons. Most of the Americans and Canadians who died during the Covid emergency were actually not killed by the virus, but through fraudulent “treatments” promoted by government and the lack of effective treatments that were suppressed by policymakers.” - HHS Advisor Dr. Paul Alexander, epidemiologist
“Among COVID-19 exposed individuals, people in their 70s have roughly twice the mortality of those in their 60s, 10 times the mortality of those in their 50s, 40 times that of those in their 40s, 100 times that of those in their 30s, 300 times that of those in their 20s, and a mortality that is more than 3000 times higher than for children. Since COVID-19 operates in a highly age specific manner, mandated counter measures must also be age specific. If not, lives will be unnecessarily lost. - Dr. Martin Kulldorff, epidemiologist
“The lockdown is causing more harm than good. If you’re under 65 years of age, then the chance of dying from the virus is markedly decreased, it’s about one in 150,000.” - Dr. Geoffrey Wells, Australian Physician
Letter to Australian government here
“The great body of evidence shows that COVID-19 lockdowns, shelter-in-place policies, masks, school closures, and mask mandates have failed in their purpose of curbing transmission or reducing deaths. These restrictive policies were ineffective and devastating failures, causing immense harm especially to the poorer and vulnerable within societies. The benefits of the societal lockdowns and restrictions have been totally exaggerated and the harms to our societies and children have been severe: the harms to children, the undiagnosed illness that will result in excess mortality in years to come, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation in our young people, drug overdoses and suicides due to the lockdown policies, the crushing isolation due to the lockdowns, psychological harms, domestic and child abuse, sexual abuse of children, loss of jobs and businesses and the devastating impact, and the massive numbers of deaths resulting from the lockdowns that will impact heavily on women and minorities.” - Dr. Paul Elias Alexander
“Australia’s covid response was madness.” - Professor and Dr. Angus Dalgleish
“The data is in: lockdowns serve no useful purpose and cause catastrophic societal and economic harms. They must never be repeated in this country.” - Hart Health Advisory & Recovery Team (multiple studies given)
"And so, we really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method… Look what’s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition. What we want to try and avoid is these massive lockdowns that are so punishing to communities, to society and to everything else.” - Dr. David Nabarro from the WHO
“Lockdown harms are 10 times greater than benefits. Emerging data has shown a staggering amount of so-called ‘collateral damage’ due to the lockdowns. This can be predicted to adversely affect many millions of people globally with food insecurity [82-132 million more people], severe poverty [70 million more people], maternal and under age-5 mortality from interrupted healthcare [1.7 million more people], infectious diseases deaths from interrupted services [millions of people with Tuberculosis, Malaria, and HIV], school closures for children [affecting children’s future earning potential and lifespan], interrupted vaccination campaigns for millions of children, and intimate partner violence for millions of women. In high-income countries, the collateral damage has also been staggering, affecting visits to emergency departments and primary care for acute (e.g., myocardial infarction, stroke) and ‘non-urgent’ (‘elective’ surgery, and cancer diagnosis and treatment) conditions, intimate partner violence, deaths of despair, and mental health. Of excess deaths occurring during the pandemic in high-income countries, 20-50% are not due to COVID-19. There was an unexplained 83% increase of 10,000 excess deaths from dementia in England/Wales in April, attributed to lack of social contact causing a deterioration in health and wellbeing of these patients.” - Dr. Ari Joffe
“COVID is real, but the fear of COVID is exaggerated. The lockdowns aren’t working. They are killing lives instead of saving lives. I plead with you to accept this reality and end the lockdown. Dozens of leading doctors implored you to end the lockdowns.” - Canadien MPP Roman Baber
“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.” - The Great Barrington Declaration, signed by over 62,000 doctors and medical scientists
“A cure must not be worse than the problem. After the initial panic surrounding covid-19, the objective facts now show a completely different picture – there is no medical justification for any emergency policy anymore. The current crisis management causes more damage than it does any good. We call for an end to all measures. - Open Letter from over 1,700 Medical Doctors and Health Professionals to Belgian Authorities
“The Victorian government’s response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus is now doing more harm than good. These measures will cause more deaths and result in far more negative health effects than the virus itself. Many Australian doctors and other health professionals consider the lockdown measures to be disproportionate, unscientific, excessively authoritarian and the cause of widespread suffering for many Victorians.” - 500 Doctors from the Australian Covid Medical Network
“But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools. We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess than we are seeing deaths from COVID.” - Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield
“It was established in the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic that the infection mortality risk varied by more than 1,000-fold across the age span, and that people without chronic health conditions such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, kidney disease, cancer history etc., were at negligible risk of mortality and very low risk of hospitalization. At that point, it was straightforward to define categories of high-risk individuals who on average would benefit from public health interventions, vs low-risk individuals who would successfully weather the infection without appreciable or long-term issues. Thus, an obsessive, one-size-fits-all pandemic management scheme that did not distinguish risk categories was unreasonable and oppressive from the outset. Accordingly, measures promoted by plausibility to reduce infection transmission, even had they been effective for that purpose, have not served good pandemic management. These measures however were never justified by scientific evidence in the first place. …The negative consequences of large-scale quarantine are so extreme (forced confinement of sick people with the well; complete restriction of movement of large populations; difficulty in getting critical supplies, medicines, and food to people inside the quarantine zone) that this mitigation measure should be eliminated from serious consideration.” - Dr. Harvey Risch, epidemiologist
“The narrative that the COVID-19 virus was largely responsible for excess deaths during the pandemic isn’t supported by statistical analyses. The numbers suggest COVID-19 countermeasures - such as lockdowns and social distancing - imposed by governments and public health officials were key contributors to the rise in excess deaths since 2020 when the pandemic began.” - Dr. Denis Rancourt, all-cause mortality researcher and lead scientist, Univ. of Ottawa
“It has been painfully, depressingly clear since March [2020] that the lockdowns, the social distancing, the face masks and all the rest of the nonsense had absolutely nothing to do with the coronavirus. Back in February and March, I called the panic a hoax. This wasn’t because I didn’t believe that the virus existed. I called it a hoax, and still believe it a hoax, because I believed that the threat of the coronavirus had been dramatically exaggerated. And that belief has never wavered and now the evidence supports my assertion.” - Dr. Vernon Coleman
“As a group of expert medical generalists, we urgently wish you to consider non-Covid harms and deaths with equal standing as the reported deaths from Covid. We are concerned due to mounting data and real world experience, that a one-track response threatens more lives and livelihood than Covid-lives saved. A total of 30,260 excess deaths have occurred in private homes since March but less than 1 in 10 are due to COVID-19. The pandemic has resulted in an inflation of acute cardiovascular deaths, most of which did not relate to COVID-19. There is a concerning signal that child suicide death rates in the UK increased during lockdown and amongst those reported after lockdown, restrictions to education and other activities, disruption to care and support services, tensions at home and isolation appeared to be contributing factors.” - Letter from 66 British doctors to UK Government
“A group of [32] scientists and doctors have written to the Prime Minister urging him not to opt for a second lockdown and to stop presenting Covid-19 as a mortal danger.”
“Besides their limited value in containing the virus, lockdown policies have been extraordinarily harmful. The harms to children of suspending in-person schooling are dramatic, including poor learning, school dropouts, social isolation, and suicidal ideation, most of which are far worse for lower income groups. A recent study confirms that up to 78 percent of cancers were never detected due to missed screening over a three-month period. If one extrapolates to the entire country, 750,000 to over a million new cancer cases over a nine-month period will have gone undetected. That health disaster adds to missed critical surgeries, delayed presentations of pediatric illnesses, heart attack and stroke patients too afraid to go to the hospital, and others - all well documented.” - Dr. Scott Atlas
“There is no reason for panic. The panic is created by these false positive PCR tests - 87-94% of those tests are false positives. … We as doctors and scientists are saying that lockdowns are causing more harm than good.” - 87,000 doctors and nurses speaking out against lockdowns and vaccines
“There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians, it’s outrageous, this is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. The whole situation represents politics playing medicine, and that’s a very dangerous game.” - Dr. Roger Hodkinson
Article here
“800 Mainstream US Scientists Warned Against Lockdowns”
"The benefits of the societal lockdowns and restrictions have been totally exaggerated and the harms to our societies and children have been severe: the harms to children, the undiagnosed illness that will result in excess mortality in years to come, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation in our young people, drug overdoses and suicides due to the lockdown policies, the crushing isolation due to the lockdowns, psychological harms, domestic and child abuse, sexual abuse of children, loss of jobs and businesses and the devastating impact, and the massive numbers of deaths resulting from the lockdowns that will impact heavily on women and minorities. “ - excerpt from 400 studies that prove lockdowns are ineffective and do more harm than good
“The lockdowns, masking, social distancing, hygiene, testing, tracking and tracing were introduced based on flawed science. This approach is essentially ineffective, dangerous to the health of the population, extremely costly and is a reflection of the failure to fully research, train in, understand, plan and manage infectious diseases. Waiting and hoping for effective, safe vaccines and antiviral drugs has proven to be farcical. …The best way to manage a pandemic is to ensure everyone has the best defences and a strong immune system as described below. Here, individuality is crucial because a one size fits all approach is doomed to failure.” Dr. and Prof. Ian Brighthope
“The unprecedented global social and economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic poses grave risks to the nutritional status and survival of young children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Of particular concern is an expected increase in child malnutrition, including wasting, due to steep declines in household incomes, changes in the availability and affordability of nutritious foods, and interruptions to health, nutrition, and social protection services. One in ten deaths among children younger than 5 years in LMICs is attributable to severe wasting because wasted children are at increased risk of mortality from infectious diseases.” - Study published in The Lancet entitled Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality
“Some of the [covid] policies are so obscene, absurd, illogical and nonscientific that they’re almost unspeakable. If you look at these failed policies, there’s only one way to understand them. They are literally written by pharmaceutical companies. Almost every single policy serves the interest of a pharmaceutical company.” - Dr. Pierre Kory
“Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it, because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years, but in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.” - Prof. Ehud Qimron, Israel
“The question is whether lockdowns worked to control the virus in a way that is scientifically verifiable. Based on the following studies, the answer is no and for a variety of reasons: bad data, no correlations, no causal demonstration, anomalous exceptions, and so on. There is no relationship between lockdowns (or whatever else people want to call them to mask their true nature) and virus control.” - American Institute for Economic Research
"Lockdowns do not stop the disease. They merely postpone infections until after they are lifted. They can work only if they are kept in place indefinitely. We do not need epidemiologists or mathematical modelers to tell us this. All we need to do is look out of the window and see what is happening in the world. Infections are roaring up in every country where a lockdown has been imposed.” - Lord Sumption
“The existing policy of lockdowns was utter wreckage: of businesses, schools, churches, civic life, and freedom itself. The whole point of the lockdowns was to wait for the vaccine.”
“Lockdown harms have affected everyone, with an extra heavy burden on the chronically ill; on children, for whom schools were closed; on the working class, especially those in the densely populated inner cities; and on the global poor, with tens of millions suffering from malnutrition and starvation. For example, Fauci was a major advocate for school closures. These are now widely recognized as an enormous mistake that harmed children without affecting disease spread. In the coming years, we must work hard to reverse the damage caused by our misguided pandemic strategy.” - Dr. Martin Kulldorff and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
“Some of the [covid] policies are so obscene, absurd, illogical and nonscientific that they’re almost unspeakable. If you look at these failed policies, there’s only one way to understand them. They are literally written by pharmaceutical companies. Almost every single policy serves the interest of a pharmaceutical company.” - Dr. Pierre Kory
“While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining democracy. Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.” - Johns Hopkins Study
“Social isolation, loneliness raise risk of death from heart attack or stroke by nearly a third.” - University of California Study
“Lockdowns increase even covid deaths. Lockdowns have caused at least 68 times more harms in Australia than any benefits.” - Sanjeev Sabhlok & Jason Gavrilis
“The UK’s approach to covid has palpably failed. In the apparent desire to protect one vulnerable group - the elderly - the implemented policies have caused widespread collateral and disproportionate harm to many other vulnerable groups, especially children.” - Letter from 130 UK medical professionals to Boris Johnson
“Lockdown effects now killing more people than covid.” - Multiple Reports
“The lockdown: a global scientific fraud of unprecedented proportions.” - United Health Professionals
“The biggest mistake we had made in the government response to the pandemic was closing America’s schools.” - Dr. Mark McDonald, board certified psychiatrist
“Europe faces a ‘cancer epidemic’ because 1 million cancer diagnoses were missed because of lockdowns. In the UK, which experienced the highest proportion of lack of access to healthcare in Europe during the pandemic, there were almost 9,000 excess cancer deaths by mid-November 2022 since the start of the pandemic. Meanwhile Sweden, the object of much abusive analysis in the MSM in most of 2020, was fully vindicated in 2022 with one of the lowest all-cause mortality – the metric most resistant to being gamed to fit a narrative bias – rates in Europe.”
“Covid virus did not kill most people! No no no, many deaths were due to the delayed treatment due to all beds blocked for Covid patients; but MOST deaths were due to medical treatment/abuse of people. Had we done NOTHING, we would have been far more successful because NOTHING worked, and made matters far worse!” - Dr. Paul Alexander, Epidemiologist
“Lockdowns were completely ineffective. [Lockdowns] didn’t achieve the goal of reducing deaths at all. In fact, they increased the number of deaths.” - Dr. Knut Wittkowski
“It’s well known that employment has impacts on not just an individual’s economic outlook, but their health as well. The idea that we could have somehow suppressed the economy in favor of preventing mortality and impact to health was a false trade-off. The cost of destroying livelihoods has impacts on health and life expectancy. This was well-established in Public Health, yet was constantly ignored by lockdowners. Knowing that the lockdowns completely failed to prevent or even reduce covid spread and mortality, it was clear by mid-2020 that there could only be net harm by adding economic hardship onto the already existing burden of the virus itself. We now have a wealth of research showing the ineffectiveness of lockdowns, yet this reality was abundantly clear even in the midst of the pandemic, as real-time data was able to show its failure in real time.”