What We Knew in the Early Days
All the warnings and information were readily available to anyone paying attention.
BY BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE Â
View original article at Brownstone.org.
The claim is now everywhere: we had to lock down because we just didn’t know about this virus. It was all very confusing and we had to play it safe. We had no other option because we just had no clarity about what we were dealing with. The precautionary principle dictated the unprecedented actions.Â
Actually, the precautionary principle goes both directions. It also dictates that we not enact policies that we know for sure would wreck lives and liberties. They did it anyway, without sufficient knowledge that the measures would achieve any positive good.Â
We approach the third year and people have forgotten that all the harms of lockdowns were strongly warned about by many voices in many venues. In addition, the virus was much better understood back then and openly discussed. We knew for certain that the panic and fear were being wildly overblown.
Below follows resources assembled by the ‘Robber Baron‘ and many others who write for the Brownstone Institute. These citations from newspapers, magazines, academic journals and interviews, with many respected voices, show that we certainly knew tremendous amounts in the early days. All the warnings and information were readily available to anyone paying attention.Â
We certainly live in an age of short attention span but many these signs and warnings came weeks or months before the world locked down and they chronicled the damage as it was happening. Why all this came to be completely ignored remains the burning question.Â
2019:Â WHO Global Influenza Programme recommends against lockdowns and masks
Sept 2019:Â Johns Hopkins pandemic preparedness study recommends against lockdowns
Jan 24: Doctor warns that mass quarantine won’t work and will devastate society
Feb 28:Â Fauci says this is more akin to flu than something more deadly
Mar 1:Â Sweden: No effective measure to let healthy school children stay at homeÂ
Mar 2:Â Discussion on how Covid IFR was likely much lower than predicted
Mar 2:Â 800 public health scientists warn against lockdowns, quartantines, restrictions
Mar 3:Â Berkeley doctor indicates masks are not helpful in preventing Covid
Mar 9:Â Article on how Covid is only really dangerous to the elderlyÂ
Mar 12: Chief medical officer saying people shouldn’t wear masks
Mar 13:Â Review found severe mental health problems from prolonged quarantine
Mar 15:Â Medical organisation says stopping elective surgeries is unnecessary and dangerous
Mar 17:Â Warning of financial crisis, unrest, civil strife, war, and a meltdown of the social fabric
Mar 25:Â Data about the health impacts of crushing the economy
Mar 26:Â Early evidence of hospitals inaccurately listing Covid as cause of death
Mar 28:Â Predictions about the harms of lockdowns: Drugs, Suicide, and Crime
Mar 28: Guardian outlines rise in domestic abuse throughout the world
Mar 30:Â Study showing children are not the primary spreader of CovidÂ
Apr 1:Â Article saying masks offer little to no advantage outside of hospital settings
Apr 4:Â Warning of the harm in delaying non-Covid medical procedures
Apr 7:Â Study from China finds of 7,324 COVID-19 cases only two transmissions occurred outdoors
Apr 7:Â Piece on the mental health cost of the lockdown on kids
Apr 8: Research showing school lockdowns aren’t helpful and cause great harm
Apr 13:Â More confirmation about domestic abuse rising due to lockdowns
Apr 15:Â Different approaches by countries have little impact on Covid deaths
Apr 15:Â Molecular Biologist suggests the cure is worse than the disease
Apr 16:Â UN overview about the poverty/death that will come from lockdowns
Apr 20:Â Oxford professor says cases in U.K. peaked before lockdownÂ
Apr 22:Â Potential for 60,000 cancer deaths due to lack of screening/treatment
Apr 23:Â The harm lockdowns are having on people with heart conditions
Apr 24:Â Study showing school closings are the least cost-effective pandemic policy
Apr 28:Â Increasing child abuse is a side effect of Covid lockdowns
Apr 29:Â Cancer deaths could increase by 20% due to lockdown
Apr 30: Santa Clara seroprevalence study shows high prevalence
May 1:Â Indications from Europe that lockdowns are ineffective