A new report harshly criticizes the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling lockdowns, school closures and vaccination mandates “fatal mistakes” and saying many Americans have lost trust in public health institutions. It is stated that this resulted in the loss of .
The report, released this week by the nonprofit Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CTUP), is a scathing indictment of government’s role in the crisis and offers 10 lessons to avoid repeating the same mistakes. ing.
Among the guidelines are suspending all binding agreements and commitments with the World Health Organization (WHO), term limits for senior positions in all health organizations, and ensuring that health organizations are strictly advisory and have no authority. This includes limiting the authority of health authorities to ensure that they do not have the same rights. To establish laws and obligations.
During a briefing on the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, then-President Donald J. Trump said Dr. Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was a member of the coronavirus task force. listening to you speak. James S. Brady Press Conference Room, White House, Washington, DC, April 17, 2020 (Javin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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The paper, titled “Looking back four years later, COVID-19 lessons learned,” argues that giving unprecedented powers to public health agencies, many of which impose severe restrictions on basic civil liberties. The government said that the government had imposed a new policy on the government, which had little positive effect, and had instead incited fear among the public.
“Pre-COVID-19 conventional wisdom held that communities were best able to respond to pandemics when there was least disruption to their normal social functions,” the authors write. . “During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health institutions have followed the opposite principle: deliberately inciting and amplifying fear, and in addition to the harm of the virus itself, it has caused economic, social, educational, and health damage.” We suffered a lot of damage.”
The report was written by Scott Atlas, M.D., senior fellow for health policy at the Hoover Institution and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and Steve Hanke, Ph.D., professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University. Emancipation Committee Chairman Philip Karpen and University of Chicago Economics Professor Casey B. Mulligan. It is based on various reports and research papers that have studied the pandemic.
People in cars attend Easter Sunday services at the Daytona Beach Drive-In Church of Christ as a way to practice social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Image/LightRocket, Getty Images)
“SARS-CoV2 was a dangerous virus, but a calm and appropriate response would have applied lessons learned from past influenza pandemics and leveraged existing pandemic response plans. Instead, from the moment the virus was detected in the United States, the public health community and politicians sent an outsized message of fear and doom to the outbreak, the newspaper said.
The group said the lockdown had not been effective in significantly reducing deaths or stopping the circulation of the virus, and that the timing was right to claim credit for the wave of decline in the virus, but that it was a “measurable coincidence.” There was little impact,” he wrote.
In fact, one of the consequences was that medical procedures were halted and fear-mongered, negatively impacting people’s health, the researchers wrote.
For example, from April 2020 to the end of 2021, there were 171,000 excess non-coronavirus deaths in Sweden, a country that was forced into a lockdown but did not. There weren’t even 0 people.
People gather to support the continuation of the school mask mandate outside the Loudoun County Government Center prior to the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, in Leesburg, Virginia. The report says masks have little or no value in fighting the spread of the disease. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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“A much smarter strategy than issuing a lockdown order is to tell the American people the truth, stick to the facts, educate the public about the balance of risk, and allow individuals to make their own decisions about whether to continue operating their businesses.” “They would have been able to ‘socially isolate themselves, attend church, send their children to school, etc.,'” the authors write.
School closures have taken a dramatic and irrefutable toll on children, resulting in learning delays, school dropouts, social isolation, mental illness, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, and, in the spring of 2020, unreported child abuse. 300,000 cases have been reported, they wrote.
It also said that masks have little or no value and could possibly be harmful, creating “an irrational belief that an unmasked face is a threat and creating conflict and division among the population.” “and increase fear among high-risk populations by giving them the false impression that masks are dangerous,” they wrote. It is protective and can put some people at risk who would not otherwise be at risk. ”
They accused the CDC of continuing to recommend wearing masks “contrary to the evidence…” [and] This will damage its reliability. ”
At the economic level, more than 49 million Americans have lost their jobs due to lockdowns, according to survey data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Unemployment benefits approved by Congress also led to longer periods of unemployment and an associated economic downturn.
The report also criticized the media, Big Tech, academia and the public health community for stifling debate.
U.S. President Joe Biden receives the latest COVID-19 booster at South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, October 25, 2022. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“Anthony Fauci, the head of the largest federal grant-making body, has created an environment in which it is extremely difficult for most medical professionals to break through the dominant views on lockdowns, mask-wearing, and overcrowded hospitals. ” said the report.
“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has become a major proponent of lockdown policies, but has failed to conduct high-quality trials of repurposed medicines and non-pharmaceutical interventions.”
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Elsewhere, the report praised Project Warp Speed for delivering effective monoclonal antibody treatments and vaccines in record time, but could not assess their safety. The authors wrote that the mandate and accompanying pressure campaign were wrong and undermined informed consent.
The authors recommend that Congress and the states define a “public health emergency” in law, with strict limits on the powers given to the executive branch and a time limit that requires an extension of the law. There is.
“Crisis is when checks and balances and well-functioning institutions are most needed, not when they should be discarded and decision-making delegated to supposed experts like Francis Collins. .Collins casually confessed to completely wrong decision calculations years later,” they wrote.
