Facts at Your Fingertips: Lockdowns

“Lockdowns” had no positive effect on public health, causing death and harm to elderly, youth and babies. Lockdowns caused economic devastation and a transfer of wealth, creating new billionaires.

In this Facts at Your Fingertips series on Covid protocols, get quick access to a curation of reports on the effects of standardized and mandated protocols including restriction of movement (“lockdowns”), business regulations, hospital protocols, masking and mandated injections.

Introduction

Small and local businesses were excessively regulated and forced to close, many unable to recover. Chosen corporations were anointed as free, able to stay open and enjoy the increased business that enforced closures brought to them.

Following are more than 50 reports. See more here.

Reports

1. More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions (Lockdowns, Restrictions, Closures) link

2. A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on Covid-19 Mortality; “We conclude that lockdowns are not an effective way of reducing mortality rates during a pandemic… our results are in line with the WHO Writing Group (2006), who state, ‘Reports from the 1918 influenza pandemic indicate that social-distancing measures did not stop or appear to dramatically reduce transmission.’” link

3. Are Lockdowns Effective in Managing Pandemics? “On the contrary, the lockdown policies had a direct side effect of increasing mortality.” link

4. Did Lockdowns Work? The definitive answer is out now in Science Advances [Jun 6, 2024] 21-min video

5. 100,000 Models Show That Not Much was Learned about Stopping the Covid-19 Pandemic link

6. Epidemic Outcomes Following Government Responses to Covid-19: Insights from Nearly 100,000 Models; “We find no patterns… that suggest a clear relationship between Covid-19 government responses and outcomes.” link

7. Nearly 500 People Became Billionaires During The Pandemic Year link

8. Theft by Lockdown link

9. Anthony Fauci Failed During the Coronavirus Response; A new paper in Science Advances by Bendavid and Patel shows how and why link

10. The WHO Is Ignoring — or Knowingly Misrepresenting — Its Own Data on Covid; “The policies the WHO promoted closed supply lines, shut down the workplaces of tens of millions of day laborers, stopped travel and tourism income on which millions of low-income people rely, closed markets and pushed hundreds of millions into severe poverty. They increased the indebtedness of nations globally, with direct effects on child mortality and the ability to grow future economies. Malaria and tuberculosis deaths have increased… Funding for essential sanitation and nutrition programs has dropped as the WHO pushed for a shift in funding to mass vaccination in countries with young populations for a disease of the elderly to which they were already immune… The causes of infectious disease deaths predominantly revolve around poor nutrition, sanitation and supply lines for basic medicines. All these, improving before 2020, are now put at risk.” link

11. Analysing the Failed Experiment of Lockdown link

12. Revisiting “Deaths of Despair” from Covid Lockdowns, Four Years Later link

13. The Data Shows Lockdowns End More Lives Than They Save [Mar 22, 2021] link

14. The Lockdown Files Message is Clear: We Must Never Again Suppress Democracy by Giving Power to Power-Hungry People; The debacle of restrictions and lockdowns link

15. Canadian Expert’s Research Finds Lockdown Harms are 10 times Greater than Benefits link

16. Depression, Self-Harm, Suicidal Thoughts Plagued Elderly in Lockdowns, Covid-19 Inquiry Hears link

17. Number of Youth in Hospital after Suicide Attempt Tripled Over 4-month Period under Covid-19 link

18. Babies Born in Lockdown ‘Slower to Meet Most Milestones’ link

19. Covid Lockdowns Altered Babies’ Microbiomes link

20. Covid-19 Stay-at-Home Policies Resulted in Excess Deaths link

21. The Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Children and Adolescents and Possible Solutions: A Perspective; "Covid-19 also had a financial impact that caused more stress on children and adolescents’ mental health. Many parents lost their jobs, leading to a strained financial burden on their family... The increased hours spent watching television or using the internet can predispose them to a risk of “Internet addiction and for cyberbullying... A 49% rise in suicide rates among Japanese children and adolescents has been reported." link

22. Medical Prof Explains Devastating Effects of Lockdown For A Virus With A “99.95%” Survival Rate link

23. Lockdowns: The Worst Public Health Catastrophe In Human History link

24. World’s Economic Meltdown Are Rooted In 2020 Lockdowns link

25. Report: Effects of Lockdown May Now Be Killing More People Than Covid link

26. How Deadly Were the Covid Lockdowns? link

27. The Covid Generation: How is the Pandemic Affecting Kids’ Brains? link

28. Covid Mandates: Unscientific, Irrational and Fraudulent, Dozens of Reasons to Stop Them Now link

29. Alberta Court Declares Lockdown Measures Violated Fundamental Freedoms link

30. Prominent Lockdown Advocate Admits He Got it Wrong link

31. Inside an Australian Quarantine Camp link

32. Study: “Lockdowns Have Had Little To No Public Health Effects” And “Imposed Enormous Economic and Social Costs” link

33. Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Prof Michael Levitt: Lockdown is a “Huge Mistake” [May 2, 2020] link and video

34. ‘Irreparable damage’: Over 6,000 scientists sign petition calling for end of coronavirus lockdowns [Oct 7, 2020] link

35. The Game Is Rigged Against Small Business link

36. How Lockdowns Bolstered an Industrial Cartel link

37. Five Medical Professionals Argue that All Covid-19 Restrictions on Schools Should Be Lifted, [Feb 2, 2022] link

38. Why Did Mental Health Professionals Go Along with Lockdowns? link

39. Over 40,000 Protest In Austria Against New Lockdown & Mandatory Covid Vaccination For All [Dec 4, 2021] link

40. Stop It With the Coronavirus Curfews Already: Self-imprisonment Orders from Panicky Politicians are Not a Prudent Way to Flatten the Curve [Mar 17, 2020]  link

41. Why Lockdowns Are the Wrong Policy [Apr 17, 2020] 35 min video

42. Group of UK and US Experts Argues for “Focused Protection” Instead of Lockdowns [Oct 7, 2020] link

43. Stanford’s Dr. John Ioannidis Destroys the Covid Lockdown Narrative link

44. Three Years In, How Did the Lockdowns Go? link

45. A Johns Hopkins study says ‘ill-founded’ Covid lockdowns did more harm than good link

46. The Human Costs of Campus Closures link

47. The Failure of Lockdowns: IEA Speaks  link

48. Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns  link

49. Covid Lockdowns May Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows [Jan 14, 2021] link

50. Footage Of Protests & Rage Against Lockdowns & Mandates From Around The World [Nov 28, 2021] link

51. NYU Professor Who Called for Harsh Covid Lockdowns Says ‘I Was Wrong’  link

52. Like Those Traumatised by War, Too Many People Want to Forget the Horrors of Lockdown. But We Must Not  link

53. New York Times Decides Lockdowns are Actually Draconian and Economically Destructive when China Does Them link

54. New Meta-Analysis Concludes Lockdowns “Have Had Little To No Effect On Covid Mortality link

55. Mainstream Media Covers Results of Scottish Covid Inquiry Report: No Evidence to Support Covid Lockdowns link

See More

Governments and centralized organizations such as the CDC and WHO did not recommend or support physicians, individuals and communities to make smart, independent decisions or to promote wellness in general. Nor did they support professionals in determining the best health strategies according to various situations. Instead, they enforced standardization of a narrow set of fantastical, unproven protocols without evidentiary support for their effectiveness or safety. People representing the establishment staunchly pressured for an unquestioned standardization of these protocols:

1. Prohibition on freedom of movement and assembly (“lockdowns”), excessive regulations (businesses required to enforce “social distancing”) and closures of a wide range of business and gathering places (particularly small businesses, while permitting a select few large businesses to remain open)

2. Standardized hospital protocols, including social isolation (family members prohibited); “treatment” limited to ventilator machines and specific pharmaceutical drugs such as paxlovid, monulpiravir and remdesivir to act as antivirals; drugs such as immunomodulators to impact the immune system; drugs such as dexamethasone to reduce inflammation; and financial rewards to hospitals that followed the protocols

3. Masking, despite widespread knowledge among professionals of the substantial research showing it to be ineffective

4. Injections, marketed as “vaccines” despite the fact that they are not vaccines, and mandated desite not being proven safe or effective

See reports on each of those protocols here. Includes more than 500 reports, in date order.