Once hailed as a COVID-19 “success story,” Peru is now the COVID-19 case study that lockdown advocates no longer want to discuss. Lima is on pace to surpass Belgium (another strict lockdown country) sometime next week as having the world’s highest COVID-19 deaths per million. So why is no one talking about it?
Pandemic panic promoters have been quick to criticize neighboring Brazil for its leadership’s more relaxed policies towards the virus, but they’ve been noticeably absent in discussing Peru. That’s because Peru implemented arguably the earliest (for their region) and strictest lockdowns in the entire world, along with several attempted suppression measures with the hopes to contain the virus, and none of it worked.
For months on end, Peruvians were largely forbidden from leaving their homes. The country began its lockdown like many others, by cutting itself off from the rest of the world, closing its borders to outsiders, and shutting down the nation’s economy and society. Similar to policies seen in U.S. lockdown states and Europe, only “essential” businesses were allowed to be open. Peru then took the shutdown a step further. The military has enforced a nationwide mandatory 10pm-4am curfew (some cities have lengthened the curfew to 8pm-5am), most “essential” stores are only open for a handful of hours a day (most grocery stores close at 3pm), and citizens face extreme penalties and legal consequences for failing to abide by the rigid restrictions.
Peru had one of the earliest (March 16th) and longest (four months) lockdowns.
But it has the highest daily deaths per capita in the world now.
Lockdowns don't work. How many additional refutations do we need for people to stop suggesting the use of lockdowns? pic.twitter.com/5xZehDtNAB
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) August 16, 2020
Even the pro-lockdown mainstream press, from the BBC, to The Wall Street Journal, to The New York Times, has acknowledged that Peru has had one of the strictest, if not the toughest lockdown in the world.
https://twitter.com/nosmhnmh/status/1294125161185148928
In addition to the lockdown, Peru implemented a universal masking mandate in its attempt to “stop the spread.” The country has even gone as far as to mandate the use of face shields on public transportation in some cities, including the capital city of Lima.
Virus Outbreak Peru
A youth wearing mask and homemade plastic face shield waits to travel with his family to his home province of Piura, at a bus station in Lima, Peru, Monday, April 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) pic.twitter.com/evzjkkoRWl— jmarine (@jmarine) April 29, 2020
Whether it was lockdown, face shields, masks, military curfews, and countless other human interventions, none of it is working. Similar to nations on its equatorial plane, Peru is facing a new surge in cases, and a resulting jump in COVID-19 deaths. Peru’s excess deaths this calendar year is now among the highest worldwide.
1/4 of all trade in either direction in and out of Peru is with China.
Those commies like to put their hands in the cookie jar, too.
Fully 3&1/5 percent of the Peruvian population are Chinese.
They are overseers and landowners.
A large proportion of them went home to China for their New Years’ celebration then back to Peru bringing the China virus with them.
No lockdown could have stopped this country from having a terrible problem with covid, just like Italy.
But I have to hand it to them for trying.
The lockdown was highly effective at flattening the curve until it ended.
Oleander is now being touted as a COVID-19 remedy. All parts of the oleander plant are poisonous. Ingestion can cause fatal heart arrhythmia, even in a healthy person.
@Greg: Our costly effort was destroyed by left wing terrorists.