Day: February 2, 2022
Media ‘ignores and misrepresents’ Canadian protests
Sky News host Rowan Dean says there have been mass protests in Canada involving convoys of trucks which went largely unnoticed by the media. Vision shows large numbers of truck drivers protesting against vaccine mandates which were imposed on drivers whose job is to frequently cross the US-Canada border. “It is mind-blowing how big this protest is and how the media has managed to either completely ignore it or misrepresent it,” Sky News host Rita Panahi said.
Lockdowns only reduced COVID deaths by 0.2 per cent, Johns Hopkins study finds
We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality’Author of the article:Tristin HopperPublishing date:Feb 02, 2022 • 2 hours ago • 4 minute read • 274 Comments
A new study out of Johns Hopkins University is claiming that worldwide pandemic lockdowns only prevented 0.2 per cent of COVID-19 deaths and were “not an effective way of reducing mortality rates during a pandemic.”
“We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality,” reads the paper, which is based on a review of 34 pre-existing COVID-19 studies.
Given the “devastating effects” that lockdowns have caused, the authors recommended they be “rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.”
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