Leaving aside the fact there’s no evidence lockdowns actually work, we can nonetheless look to past pandemics
Media pundits and politicians are now in the habit of claiming it was the pandemic itself that has caused unemployment to skyrocket and economic growth to plummet.
The claim is that sick and dying workers, fearful consumers, and disrupted supply chains would cause economic chaos. Some have even claimed that economic shutdowns actually help the economy, because it is claimed allowing the spread of the disease will itself destroy employment and economic growth.1
Leaving aside the fact there’s no evidence lockdowns actually work, we can nonetheless look to past pandemics—where coercive government interventions were at most sporadic—we should see immense economic damage. Specifically, we can look to the the pandemic of 1957-58, which was more deadly than the COVID-19 pandemic has been so far. We can also look to the 1918-19 pandemic. Yet, we will see that neither produced economic damage on a scale we now see as a result of the government mandated lockdowns. This thoroughly undermines the claims that the lockdowns are only a minor factor in economic destruction, and that the virus itself is the real culprit.
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9 comments:
Come on now admit it we all know the real reason for the pandemic Stealing the 2016 election didn't work Russian collusion didn't work ukraine collusion didn't impeachment didn't work so anything to stop trump and the momentum of the real movement to get this country back on track. Just another bag of BS fuls of lies and deception. When will we learn??
Lockdowns are to destroy the Trump economy and bring down America.
The lockdowns by the dumbocrat governors are the only tool that is available to kill the economy and blame it on President Trump!
That will back fire as the rebound will be yuuuge!
KAG2020!
Ok 3:29 and 3:27. Then why did the Trump administration themselves recommend the lockdowns?? And why did almost every other country in earth go into lockdown? I’m sure the entire world didn’t punish itself because they don’t like Trump
No the Trump admin did not recommend the lockdowns fauci and birx did both of them are lunatic evil scientists who have been dying to try this experiment for forever. The phrase "mad scientist" was coined for a reason. It's the truth 99.9 percent are crazy nut cases. They eat sleep breath and live whatever it is they are interested in and could care less who they hurt on the way to their own goals. This was just another experiment a study to them. They may fool the masses but I have everyone's number including theirs.
You don't have my number 757, but you can come and it if you have the courage
My comment explained the phenomenon but was not posted. Getting old.
DUH!!!. Compare St. Louis to Philadelphia at that time. You will get the answer
You left out the 1968 pandemic.
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