Lockdowns have been disastrous for public health. They rob people of their wellbeing and quality of life; in other words, their health. Without adequate freedom, wellbeing, and opportunities for the fulfillment of personality, there is limited value in having a long life. Radical social distancing measures, whether imposed or voluntary, take years off the life expectancy of every person affected. As of 2022, SARS-CoV-2 shortens the lives of approximately 0.03% of infected individuals, each by about 3 years — not even enough to affect a country’s overall life expectancy, no matter how many people get infected.
Surveys around the world have found that lockdowns decrease average quality of life in the order of 20-40%. That level of wellbeing reduction parallels an acute disease (see Figure 1). At least a quarter of people under quarantine have endured a horrific collapse in their mental health and quality of life. According to a CDC study, 11% of people seriously considered suicide during the lockdown, including 1 in 4 young adults. 8 large national surveys discovered a 12-fold increase in suicidal thoughts in young adults (37% vs 3%). Social distancing has made life so intolerable that people have lost interest in living.
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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Constitution of the World Health Organization, 1946³
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By severely depressing the economy, lockdowns have pulled many people down the income ladder, for which there is a corresponding lower life expectancy on each rung. Wealthy countries with free public healthcare are no exception (see Figure 2). In January 2021, the ILO estimated that workers have so far lost $3.7 trillion in wages.
Chronic lonesomeness, the legacy of social distancing, is a potent risk factor for health. In addition to sapping emotional wellbeing, studies have shown that being lonely increases the incidence of many medical conditions and takes an average of 10 years off a person’s life. Depression is also prevalent among lockdown victims. Having had one or more depressive episodes decreases life expectancy by 12 years on average, according to a large Canadian study. More generally, poor satisfaction with life is also deadly. According to researchers at University College London, men and women in their 50s who are happy can expect to live 6 years longer than those who are generally unhappy.
With McCarthyism at an extreme since the pandemic began, a limited number of experts have spoken publicly on the myth that lockdowns are beneficial for fear of defamation. Add to that the refusal of the media to give a voice to anyone questioning lockdowns, the false claims by the media that experts unanimously support lockdowns, the removal of every account that questions lockdowns from all the major social media platforms, and the removal of any search result that questions lockdowns from search engines, and you can easily see why most people have concluded that experts are unanimous in supporting lockdowns. International
In reality, the net harm of lockdowns has been voiced by many of the world’s leading scholars in applicable disciplines. In 2020, a declaration against lockdowns has been signed by over 60,000 health experts. The ~20,000-strong International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists, composed of leading COVID experts, is vigorously fighting pandemic restrictions and COVID “vaccines.” National coalitions of health experts have published open statements against harmful restrictions, including in Canada, U.S., Israel, UK and Belgium.
The World Health Organization has repeatedly warned against the use of lockdowns and explicitly advises countries to avoid them. Michael Ryan, director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme recommends countries follow Sweden’s model of public education and respecting personal freedom. In 2019, a systemic review of non-pharmaceutical pandemic measures (ie. distancing/masking) by the WHO found them all to be ineffective. Furthermore, the ‘safe & effective’ vaccines being used to prevent COVID have a blisteringly high rate of serious side effects and death. They are bioweapons, not vaccines. READ MORE
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Politicians tell us that lockdowns are necessary to save lives. However, this is easy to disprove. All of the COVID mitigation measures are based on the assumption that it can be spread by a person who does not currently have symptoms. This is demonstrably FALSE. In 2022, COVID-19 is far less fatal than the common flu at all age points. People can easily protect themselves from a serious case of COVID by supplementing vitamin D, being physically and socially active to boost immunity, and taking effective medications such as HCQ, zinc, or ivermectin.
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Contrary to the media spin, lockdowns don’t even reduce contagion or save lives while they are occurring, yet alone over the long-term. Each lockdown victim is forced to endure terrible suffering and lose many wellbeing-adjusted life years.
The prestigious Rancourt, Baudin & Mercier research team has performed several thorough analyses of deaths around the world from 2020. As of Dec. 2022, they have consistently found that the only excess deaths since the alleged pandemic began have been from the catastrophic effects of social distancing on health, COVID shots, and a contraction of healthcare, including the intentional cessation of antibiotic use. Their findings suggest that the only public health crisis is not a virus, but government policy. Not surprising since a large portion of official COVID deaths are intentional misattributions. Moreover, as of Nov. 2022, there is ample evidence that COVID shots have caused considerable excess deaths around the world.
The health problems that lockdowns create will occur in more people, cause more suffering, take more years of life away, and kill a higher proportion of people than COVID ever could. Worse yet are the toxic injections which have already caused tens of millions of deaths and billions of injuries according to a mid-2022 analysis.
As illustrated in the above chart, a pandemic strategy with a long-term view of saving lives should prioritize protecting jobs, education, and quality of life. It should discourage isolating at home, which is known to cause acute depression, physical inactivity, and is believed to increase child abuse.
Shall we ignore these death rates and put our faith in future technological advances to render them obsolete?
Consider that in the United States:
Life expectancy has increased only 3 years in the last 31 years (75 years in 1989 to 78 years in 2020).
Since 2010, death rates have increased for adults 24 to 65-year-old across all races.
Median age of death for correctional officers has been found to be 12-16 years lower than the national average. Likely reasons include high levels of stress, alcohol use, and suicide.
Regardless of medical progress, the social determinants of health adversely affected by the pandemic response will always have an impact on our health and longevity. These measures are antithetical to public health. In the U.S., they have already reduced life expectancy by almost 3 years.
