[ZeroHedge] The study was authored by Jonas Herby, special advisor at Center for Political Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark; Lars Jonung, professor emeritus in economics at Lund University, Sweden; and Steve H. Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics and Founder & Co-Director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
The authors wrote that "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."
Or as Adam Carolla put it: "You closed the beaches down, you closed the schools down, cloth masks were gonna save us all, the vaccine was gonna be effective, natural immunity wasn’t effective — what have you been right about?"
- Meta-analysis of 24 studies found Covid lockdown restrictions caused just 0.2% reduction in virus deaths
- Economists who carried out review said border closures had virtually zero effect on Covid mortality (-0.1%)
- However, researchers found closing nonessential shops was most effective intervention, causing 10.6% fall
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