{"id":28942,"date":"2022-04-29T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=28942"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:13:58","slug":"new-study-provides-yet-more-evidence-that-covid-lockdowns-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/04\/29\/new-study-provides-yet-more-evidence-that-covid-lockdowns-didnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Provides Yet More Evidence That COVID Lockdowns Didn\u2019t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, even alarmist government officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci have <\/span>admitted<\/span><\/a> that it\u2019s time to learn to live with the virus rather than disrupt our ordinary lives. In recent months, there has been a concentrated shift among our elected officials and expert class attempting to \u201cmove on\u201d from the pandemic\u2014perhaps because the policy decisions they made have aged so terribly. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet <\/span>another<\/span> comprehensive study<\/span><\/a> was just released showing that the drastic lockdowns (\u201cstay-at-home orders\u201d) enacted in many US states did not meaningfully reduce COVID-19 mortality. Economists Casey P. Mulligan, Stephen Moore, and Phil Kerpen ran the numbers to rank all 50 states on COVID mortality, economic performance, and pandemic education outcomes (based on how much they were able to keep schools open). <\/span><\/p>\n

The results show that despite their drastic, sometimes-lethal second-order consequences, government lockdowns did not meaningfully reduce COVID-19 mortality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExcluding the geographically unusual cases of Hawaii and Alaska to focus on the continental U.S., <\/span>there is no apparent relationship between reduced economic activity during the pandemic and our composite mortality measure,\u201d the authors conclude. <\/span><\/p>\n