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A new report has sharply criticized the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, writing that lockdowns, school closures and vaccine mandates were “catastrophic errors” resulting in many Americans losing faith in public health institutions.
The report, published this week by the non-profit Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CTUP), paints a damning indictment of the government’s role in the crisis and offers ten lessons that must be learned, to avoid the same mistakes from being repeated.
Some of the guidance includes halting all binding agreements or pledges to the World Health Organization (WHO), term limits for all senior health agency positions as well as limiting the powers of health agencies to make sure they are strictly advisory and do not have the power to set laws or mandates.
The 49-page report by CTUP announced outlined the 10 lessons learned. Below are some critical excerpts:
Lesson 1 – Leaders should calm public fears, not stoke them:
“Conventional wisdom pre-COVID was that communities respond best to pandemics when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted. During COVID, the public health establishment followed the opposite principle: they intentionally stoked and amplified fear, which overlaid enormous economic, social, educational and health harms on top of the harms of the virus itself.”
Non-COVID excess deaths from lockdowns and societal panic are estimated at about 100,000 per year in the United States and zero in non-lockdown Sweden
Lesson 2 – Lockdowns Do Not Work to Substantially Reduce Deaths
or Stop Viral Circulation
A much wiser strategy than issuing lockdown orders would have been to tell the American people the truth, stick to the facts, educate citizens about the balance of risks, and let individuals make their own decisions about whether to keep their businesses open, whether to socially isolate, attend church, send their children to school, and so on.
Lesson 3 – Lockdowns and Social Isolation Had Negative Consequences
that Far Outweighed Benefits
“The promotion of lengthy social distancing restrictions by governments and scientific experts during the Covid crisis had severe consequences for hundreds of millions of people. Many original predictions are broadly supported by the cumulative research data presented above: a rise in non-Covid excess mortality, mental health deterioration, child abuse and domestic violence, widening global inequality, large increases in debt, food insecurity, lost educational opportunities, unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, increased loneliness and social
polarization, democratic backsliding and human rights violations… The pandemic response leaves behind a legacy of poverty, mental health illness, learning loss, debt, food insecurity, social polarization, erosion of respect for human rights and elevated excess mortality for non-Covid health conditions.”The employment impact in the United States was staggering, with lockdowns putting over 49 million Americans out of work according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey data, and over two million remaining out of work due to COVID closures as recently as July 2022.
Lesson #4: Government Should Not Pay People More Not to Work
Congress authorized $600 per week unemployment bonuses early in the pandemic, despite warnings that the consequences would be substantial, prolonged unemployment and associated economic underperformance.
The evidence shows conclusively that bonuses for not working increased unemployment rates, which plunged rapidly when the original $600 bonus ended, before stalling when a $300 bonus took effect.
Lesson #5: Shutting Down Schools Was a Major Policy Mistake With
Tragic Effects on Children, Especially the Poor
The harms to children of closing in-person schooling are dramatic and irrefutable. The shutdowns caused serious harm to children, including poor learning, school drop-out, social isolation, mental illness, drug abuse, suicidal ideation, and 300,000 cases of child abuse unreported in spring 2020.
Lesson #6: Masks Were of Little or No Value and Possibly Harmful
There was no high-quality evidence in support of community masking for respiratory viruses in spring 2020; in fact, the randomized clinical trials regarding masking for influenza found it to be ineffective for protecting the wearer and for preventing spread. Unfortunately, rather than commission cluster randomized controlled trials to produce high-quality evidence on masking with respect to SARS-CoV2, global and US public health authorities overstated the benefits of masking and persisted even as evidence to the contrary accumulated.
Lesson #7: Government Should Not Suppress Dissent or Police the Boundaries of Science
A poisonous interplay between America’s media, Big Tech, and the academic science and public health community has severely harmed the public. Scientists used the media to bully others, and the media gave them the imprimatur of “the experts” to disparage the opposing views.
Censorship took many forms, including legacy media, social media, preprint servers, and university campuses. Scientific journals published character smears and social media actively suffocated voices that dissented from the accepted COVID narrative.
Anthony Fauci, the head of the largest federal grantmaking entity, created an environment in which it was very difficult for most medical experts to break with the dominant narratives on lockdowns, masks, or overwhelmed hospitals.
Lesson #8: The Real Hospital Story Was Underutilization
The tragedy of the non-COVID death pandemic was in large part driven by record-low hospital utilization – with very few exceptions – throughout the entire pandemic period. This was a result of public health messaging and political orders canceling medical procedures and intentionally stoking fear, causing people to cancel their own appointments for serious medical care.
Lesson #9: Protect the Most Vulnerable
One of the most striking features of the earliest COVID morbidity and mortality data was a profound differential in risk between the old and the young.
Lesson #10: Warp Speed: Deregulate But Don’t Mandate
Project Warp Speed developed multiple highly effective monoclonal antibody treatments and vaccines in record time, but there were multiple failures.
NIH failed to conduct randomized trials of low-cost repurposed drugs, and government monopoly purchasing and distribution of monoclonal antibodies created chronic shortages and politicized distribution decisions, which led to the announcement that Regeneron would be rationed in the South, where it was needed, due to concerns for “equitable distribution, both geographically and temporally.
The paper also stated, “SARS-CoV2 was a dangerous virus, but a calm, proportionate response would have applied the lessons from past influenza pandemics and used existing pandemic response plans. Instead, from the moment the virus was detected in America, the public health community and politicians spread an outsized message of fear and doom.”
The paper concluded, “One result of the government’s error-ridden COVID response was that Americans have justifiably lost faith in public health institutions. Lockdowns, school closures, and mandates were catastrophic errors, pushed with
remarkable fervor by public health authorities at all levels.”
CLICK HERE to access the full report, titled, “COVID Lessons Learned: A Retrospective After Four Years.”
I have a new @Comm4Prosperity paper with @ScottAtlas_IT, @stevehanke0, and @caseybmulligan on lessons learned for the four-year anniversary of lockdown.
Check it out:https://t.co/KxZu1mD1Bz
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) March 15, 2024
COVID Lessons Learned: A Retrospective after Four Years; Atlas, Hanke, Kerpen, Mulligan; CTUP https://t.co/8rJRyUkRVf “Lesson #3: Lockdowns and Social Isolation Had Negative Consequences that Far Outweighed Benefits” pic.twitter.com/JC1yAODsR0
— The Independent with Scott Atlas (@ScottAtlas_IT) March 16, 2024
New report blasts government’s COVID response, warns of repeating same mistakes https://t.co/XG66w1AWYe
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 16, 2024
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