Category: collateral damage

Professor Gives ‘Final Assessment’ on COVID Lockdowns

Government-mandated stay-at-home orders, school and business shutdowns, mandatory face masks, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions to stop the spread of COVID-19, had “little to no effect” on mortality while increasing excess and “collateral” deaths, according to a report. “Widespread, economy-wide lockdown policies were a disaster. They had only marginal effects on the ultimate number of deaths,…


Lockdowns in Canada Went Against ‘Hard Lessons’ Learned From Previous Pandemics: Emergency Management Expert

Canada’s use of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic goes against all previous knowledge, published studies, and Canadian pandemic response plans, says a former head of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency, adding that the collateral damage will last for at least a generation. “We just ignored [existing pandemic plans] and placed the medical officers in charge who were…