There has been a full-on media blackout of the new study outlining the ineffectiveness of lockdowns to prevent COVID deaths.
According to a Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis of several studies, lockdowns during the first COVID wave in the spring of 2020 only reduced COVID mortality by .2% in the U.S. and Europe.
“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,” the researchers wrote. “In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
However, the Johns Hopkins study received no mention on any of the five liberal networks this week. According to Grabien transcripts, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC all ignored the anti-lockdown findings after having spent much of the pandemic shaming red states with minimal restrictions and events deemed by critics as “superspreaders.”
It wasn’t just the networks avoiding the study. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, USA Today, Axios, Politico among other outlets also turned a blind eye to the findings, according to search results.
The researchers – Johns Hopkins University economics professor Steve Hanke, Lund University economics professor Lars Jonung, and special advisor at Copenhagen’s Center for Political Studies Jonas Herby – analyzed the effects of lockdown measures such as school shutdowns, business closures, and mask mandates on COVID-19 deaths.
“We find little to no evidence that mandated lockdowns in Europe and the United States had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality rates,” the researchers wrote.
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Hey, Greg…. LOOK! More evidence of CNN “telling the truth”.
I’m curious about how you imagine an analysis completed last month could have informed pandemic policy 2 years ago.
I’m curious as to, a) where you get that idea and, b) why you don’t address how all the liberal outlets totally ignore a pretty bombastic and impactful story. Why does CNN, for example since you view them as purveyors of ultimate truth, not discuss the study?
Well, simple; because it does not promote the Democrat agenda of shutting portions of society and the economy down at will to emphasize their power.
Weren’t the most extensive lock downs during 2020? Who was the president then?
I also seem to recall that they weren’t only in the United States. They were pretty much global.
At the time, there were no vaccines. Containment was the only available strategy, and the report you’re waving around that questions their usefulness at reducing mortality was two years in the future.
And which President “followed the science”? Was Trump supposed to go against the advice of “experts” like Fauci? In hindsight, knowing what a complete fool Fauci, always wrong about everything, is well, of course he should have.
But, that is hindsight. The issue now is, why are some still locking down, mandating useless masks and forcing ineffective vaccines upon people?
More reasons you cant trust the M.S. Media their Fake news 99/44&100% Fake News one fact is that the NYT covered up for Hitler,Stalin,Castro Etc and covered up for the Vietnam and are behind the 1619 Project