"consider non-Covid harms and deaths with equal standing as the reported deaths from Covid” and said that lockdown-related “harms to long term health and wellbeing begin to outweigh the benefits"

https://reason.com/2020/10/14/who-joins-top-epidemiologists-in-emphasizing-harm-caused-by-lockdowns/

Sixty-six high-profile British physicians made headlines earlier this month when they urged the government “to consider non-Covid harms and deaths with equal standing as the reported deaths from Covid” and said that lockdown-related “harms to long term health and wellbeing begin to outweigh the benefits.”

“Closedown, lockdown, closing borders—nothing has a historical scientific basis, in my view,” observed Agners #Tegnell, one of the architects of Sweden’s less-restrictive pandemic response.

Back in March, David L. Katz, former director of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, wrote

“I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life—schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned—will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself.”

But these objections have largely been ignored as the views of a few fringe heretics to the supposedly science-dictated dogma of restrictive policies that close whole societies.

Such sidelining gets harder as more high-profile scientists join together to muscle their way into the public view.

#Lockdown #Lockdowns #SARSCoV2

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