COVID Lockdown Insanity
Table of Contents
The COVID Deaths It Prevented,
The Depression and Suicides It Caused,
What We Should Have Done,
And What It Shows We Could Do Now to Address Real Crises
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Part 1. Quantifying the Benefits and Harms of the Lockdown Strategy
Comparison to Sweden Suggests COVID Lockdowns Did Not Prevent Any COVID Deaths At All
COVID Dead Have Median Life Expectancy Had They Not Contracted COVID of Less Than 1 Year and an Average Life Expectancy Of About 4 Years
COVID Policies May Have Averted 200,000 COVID Deaths in U.S.
Time of Life Saved by the Lockdowns.
200,000 COVID deaths averted equals less than 1 day of life span extension per person.
Has living this way for a year been worth it to you to add 1 day to your life?
Do Happiness and Quality of Life Matter?
Depression and the Lockdowns
Do Suicides Matter or Only COVID Deaths?
Suicides and Deaths of Despair Caused by the Lockdowns
Unemployment Caused by the Lockdowns
COVID Policies Have Increased Deaths From Cancer and Heart Disease
Lockdowns Have Increased Domestic Abuse and Child Abuse
Closing Schools and Colleges and Universities
Should a society sacrifice the interests of all of its children and young people to prolong the lives of a portion of the oldest and sickest?
The Trolley Dilemma: Do We Switch the Train From Track 1 to Track 2?
Economic Cost of Lockdowns
Part 2.
What is the Fatality Rate of COVID-19 and How Does It Compare to the Flu?
Death Risk from COVID-19 – Overall, by Age, and Compared to the Flu.
Part 3
Review of the Effectiveness of Specific Strategies to Slow or Stop the Spread of COVID-19
How Transmission of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections Happens
Effectiveness of Masks
Hand Washing and Hand Sanitizer
Social Distancing
Follow the Science: Asymptomatic People Do Not Transmit COVID
Quarantine
Follow the Science: Open the Schools Because Doing So Does Not Increase COVID Infections
Stay at Home Orders
Harming The Immune System as a Strategy to Reduce COVID Spread And COVID Deaths (?)
The Best Estimate of Number of COVID Deaths Prevented by the Lockdowns: Zero
Recommendations: What We Should Have Done To Combat COVID
Part 4
Miscellaneous Observations and Theories
Lockdowns as a Pharmaceutical
College and Pro Athletes and COVID
The Effect of Lockdowns on Marriages and Intimate Partnerships
Surprises
The Dumbest Restriction
The Big Lies
Are the COVID Death Numbers inflated?
Censorship by the Tech Giants and Media
Did Anthony Fauci and the Other Physicians in Positions of Power Advocating for the Lockdowns Commit Medical Malpractice and Violate Their Hippocratic Oath?
Perhaps the Stupidest and Most Arrogant Statement Ever Made
Judicial Decisions and U.S. Civil Liberties
The Vaccines
Who Is to Blame
Should We Be Wearing Masks After Most People Are Vaccinated?
Did the FDA Delay COVID Vaccine Approval to Hurt Trump?
Conspiracy Theories
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Part 5
Comparison to Other Epidemics and Disasters
Comparison to Other Epidemics and Disasters
Is the Lockdown Strategy the Worst Public Policy Mistake Ever?
Comparison of the Harm to the Vietnam War
Part 6
Philosophical Musings
Why Have We Fallen For The Lie That Face-To-Face Contact Is Not Important?
Philosophical Musings
Part 7
The Good News:
The Rapid And Enormous Changes And Sacrifices We Made In The Lockdowns Show What Great Things We Could Do If We Pursued Better Goals
If We Can Remake Society on a Dime And Undertake These Sacrifices Over COVID,
We Can Do Anything!
Values
Extinction, Habitat Loss, and Overpopulation
Climate Change
Depression and Unhappiness: Proposals If Happiness Were Our Goal
Proposals for Other Problems
Part 8
Conclusion
