A Review and Analysis Of Lockdown Effects On COVID-19 Mortality II

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Last January, the John Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise published a working paper that showed clearly how lockdowns across the world did not affect Covid-19 mortality at all.

The paper is written by economists Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke, now appearing in its final version, titled: A Literature Review And Meta-Analysis Of The Effects Of Lockdowns On Covid-19 Mortality – II

The conclusion is of course counterintuitive to many, which in most cases may be explained by a fallacy of perspective on which I’ve written earlier, but it is a fact-based and well-argued conclusion arrived at through a rigorous, well-designed, and unusually transparent meta-review of available research.

Appendix II is a particularly interesting read. Some readers may recall the media storm against this paper, driven by some self-proclaimed fact-checkers.

The appendix not only debunks all the “fact-checkers” claims but the authors also demonstrate how they were based not on any understanding of the paper (in fact it looks as if the “fact-checkers” mostly never even read it), but rather on superficial and to a large extent irrelevant “criticisms”, repeated blindly by one “fact-checker” and one media outlet after another.

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    Carbon Bigfoot

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    Wisenox

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    Covid measures were never meant to stop anything other than constitutional freedoms.

    An in-silico genome with a 99.9% survivability, and a vaccine with a purposely withheld ingredient list…
    People still took the vaccine and never bothered to read the patents.

    Pandemics have never been the threat to civilization, dumb-ass stupid monkey sheep are the biggest threat.
    Idiots make their world go around and the *dyews rub it in their faces.
    The EU tower of babel poster is the perfect example. Look up ‘blockhead’.
    The sheep are so dumb that they don’t even see the excessive use of Enki symbolism shoved in their face.
    14 and a Fish here, 14 and a Fish there, yet oblivious.
    Its Aquarius and the Southern Fish constellation.
    The star Fomahault is a teacher, used to be called Dagon, today we call it the pope.

    Podesta even drew 14 and a Fish on his hands for a photo-op. He was in Christchurch just before the New Zealand fake shooting.
    14 and a Fish is on the UN’s sustainable goals, it was in the Buffalo hoax, and we just saw it again in fake-Uvalde.
    The *dyew Noahide Laws (Chabad), endorsed by every president, including Reagan, state that you should be decapitated if you don’t worship Enki.
    Trump-Trap Reawaken Tour and Celebrity Covid Doctor Zelenko is openly pushing Noahide laws. Every president signs them, might want to learn more about Enki.

    14 and a Fish is everywhere, but sheep don’t notice.

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