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Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease


We now have almost daily statistics on the Wuhan coronavirus. We know a lot about the frequency and the mortality of the disease. These statistics can easily be found for countries, states, and individual counties within each state. We can also see the mortality rates for different age groups, basically confirming what we have known for many months . . . Covid is bad for older individuals, especially those with underlying conditions. Yes, Covid can kill people of all ages, but even in the >70 years old age groups, the chance of surviving Covid is more than 90+%. A recent study stated the the flu is significantly more deadly for younger people than is Covid.

What is now starting to come out are the deleterious effects of implementing lockdowns which are being touted to be approaching to a cure. We are now realizing that these lockdowns have increasingly more common detrimental consequences. 

For some reason these adverse consequences of lockdowns are not well publicized and so what follows here is a partial list (from the Daily Caller):

Employment rates fell by 5 percentage points between January to April of this year; this is more than the drop during and after the Great Recession.

In addition, 44 percent of the population experienced a decline in earnings and 54 percent experienced a decrease in savings.

A Pew Research Center survey released in September found that one-in-four Americans had trouble paying their bills since the pandemic started, a third dipped into savings or retirement accounts to make ends meet. Nearly one-in-six reported borrowing money from friends or family or gotten food from a food bank. Overall, 25% of U.S. adults also reported saying they or someone in their household lost their job because of the pandemic.

Thousands of businesses also closed across the U.S., many unable to stay afloat after being deemed non-essential during lockdowns. Yelp’s Economic Impact Report in September revealed that 60% of businesses that closed won’t be reopening, according to CNBC. As of Aug, 31, 163,735 businesses indicated on Yelp that they have closed, a decrease from the 180,000 that closed at the very beginning of the pandemic. However, it actually shows a 23% increase in the number of closures since mid-July.

Stay-at-home orders and other physical distancing measures were not only economically and socially disruptive, but also contributed to adverse psychological health issues. 

A study published in September found that nearly a quarter of people in the United States are experiencing symptoms of depression, which is about three times the number before the pandemic. Another study showed that social isolation and loneliness among U.S. adults in the earliest months of the pandemic was also elevated.

In April 2020, 13.6% of US adults reported symptoms of serious psychological distress, relative to 3.9% in 2018, the study found. A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study released in August found that a startling 25% percent of young adults, aged 18-24, say they’ve thought of committing suicide in the last month due to coronavirus conditions.

Doctors at California’s John Muir Medical Center said in May that deaths by suicide were outstripping those by the coronavirus, noting that they had seen a “year’s worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks.”

The sad aspects as a direct result of “the cure,” are not limited to just these psychological and economic  mal-consequences. Drug overdoses have escalated. Overall, suspected overdoses rose about 18% after states began mandating lockdowns in March compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to data from the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program, The WSJ reported.

In San Francisco, four times more people have died due to drug overdoses than from coronavirus in 2020, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

And of course, these deleterious effects of lockdowns are not limited to what I have noted above. A myriad of delayed medical procedures, skipped cancer screenings, and postponed immunizations will have consequences for years to come.

Is the cure worse than the disease?

Unfortunately, from my point of view, the answer is “yes!”

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