The left just can't get over its love of (harmful) lockdowns

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2023/08/27/the-left-just-cant-get-over-its-love-of-
harmful-lockdowns/

COVID-mania just won’t go away.

The deadly strains of the virus have been gone for two years now and yet
the recent outbreak of a mild flu-like variant is again stoking panic on
the left and by left-leaning media outlets.

Nearly 100 universities are requiring masks this fall.

Lionsgate movie studios in Los Angeles and Atlanta-based Morris Brown
College just stated they are reinstating not just mask mandates but
social-distancing measures and contact-tracing as well.

CNN — which led the panic in 2020 and 2021, causing manic school,
restaurant and business shutdowns and vaccine mandates — recently put out
a headline on its website that encouraged its readers not to go outside
without a mask on.

Really? The latest evidence finds this is less dangerous than a normal flu
virus and tracking data suggest that the wave may have already peaked.

Even more disturbing is that the leftist medical community and media
aren’t renouncing their calls for mitigation strategies that were
catastrophically wrong in the panic era of 2020 and 2021 but instead
calling for more of these assaults on freedom down the road.

It’s one thing for well-meaning medical experts to have disagreed about
how to best combat a once-in-a-half-century deadly virus.

We didn’t know exactly what we were dealing with.

But now we know with concrete scientific evidence that most of the
mandates and lockdowns had a very small impact on the spread of the virus
and on fatalities.

It turns out there was almost no difference in death rates in states with
strict lockdowns and those with no lockdowns at all.

Cross-country evidence also suggests masks had a very small impact.

Healthy children were never at risk from COVID (something we knew early
on), so shutting down schools for one or two years was a sop to the
teacher unions but a disaster for this generation of kids.

Test scores are the worst in 30 years.

Another example of the continuing damage from school lockdowns: Before the
pandemic, only 15% of public-school students were chronically absent, that
is, more than 18 or more days a year.

Today, Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee’s data finds an
estimated 6.5 million additional students are now chronically absent. In
some states absenteeism has doubled.

But polls show that Democrats — even those who are highly-educated —
generally still support the lockdowns that were mandated.

These are the same people who lecture about “following the science.”

The most comprehensive study by experts at Johns Hopkins found that
lockdowns reduced COVID death rates by 0.1%

And how many people died from the isolation of lockdowns, delayed health
screening from cancer, the increase in drug overdoses, etc.?

The Biden administration, too, is doubling down on its refusal to learn
anything from catastrophic lockdowns, school closures and mask mandates.

Biden has replaced Rochelle Walensky as head of the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention with North Carolina lockdown artist Mandy Cohen.

And the new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases is Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who was Alabama’s leading TV COVID-panic
merchant.

At one time, she crazily estimated the death rate from COVID would be 10%,
20 times higher than the actual rate.

How can people so wrong be promoted?

Worst of all, Anthony Fauci, who remains a hero of the left, recently not
only refused to admit the errors of his advice but said the “lockdown was
absolutely justified.”

Why does this bizarre rewrite of recent history matter?

Because the fear-mongering left can’t wait to install new lockdowns every
time we have a new flu virus and health scare.

They’ve even started putting out feelers for occasional climate-change
economic shutdowns.

Those who love freedom must strenuously resist this coming tyranny.

Stephen Moore is a Heritage Foundation senior fellow and chief economist
at FreedomWorks.

Roy Kelly
27 August, 2023

"Climate change economic shutdowns"?
During Covid, man made cO2 emissions decreased but the CO2 levels in the
atmosphere continued to increase.
Because 90% of CO2 emissions come from decaying leaves. When CO2
increases, plant life increases.
Abstract thought required at this point....


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