Lockdown work? Lockdown are necessary? Not according to the data comparing different areas and the impact it has on limiting the virus spread as allegedly detected by PCR tests, or actual illness.
Speaking to The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Program on Medical Outcomes at Standford, Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD stated that these lockdown are having and will continue to have 'enormous collateral consequences'.
Bhattacharya even stated that in time this will be recognized, and thatLockdowns will be seen as the "single biggest public health mistake" in history. Keeping people inside and isolated from the loved ones is a disaster for psychological well-being and will have reverberating long-term consequences.
He also mentions how scientists have blindly clung onto the false perception of how effective lockdowns are and remain attached to perpetuating a promotion of lockdowns despite their evident failure.
I do think that future historians will look back on this and say this was the single biggest public health mistake, possibly of all history in terms of the scope of the harm that it's caused.
He also reiterated the point that even the WHO made about how lockdowns shouldn't be used, and that they mostly affect the poor and very negative ways:
Every single poor person on the face of the earth has faced some harm, sometimes catastrophic harm from this lockdown policy.
Almost from the very beginning, lockdown was going to have enormous collateral consequences, things that are sometimes are hard to see but are nevertheless real.
All of those kinds of harms, I think, even from the very beginning were going on. And yet we closed our eyes to them because we were so scared about the virus and so enamoured with this idea that the lockdown could stop the virus.
The actual practice of a lockdown is a class of people, a small class of people, relatively well-off, who have jobs that can be done remotely well. Those people, they can be protected while the rest of society has to face the harms of the virus, whether they're vulnerable or not.
It's time to let go of this delusion that lockdowns work. Certainly not for a virus with the threat equivalency of a more severe flu season. Even then, they don't work anyways.