"Executive orders put citizens under house arrest as [COVID-19] became the pretext for usurping the most basic human liberty. Governors boasted of jailing their residents for strolling outside, the Intelligence Community imposed arbitrary dictates on who could continue work, children sat indoors for months on end, and the elderly died alone.
Beginning on March 16, 2020, nearly every state imposed 'stay-at-home' orders, threatening jail time for the non-compliant. Local officials called on police to round up those who violated their decrees, and they demanded that local law enforcement monitor family gatherings...
The House Arrests of 2020
After Trump’s March 16 press conference...
CISA divided the country into essential and nonessential categories, permitting liberty for media, technology, and large commercial facilities but imposing tyranny for less favorable groups like bars, restaurants, churches, and gyms...
In the end, the policies were a public health failure. They failed to stop the spread of Covid, and excess deaths unrelated to the coronavirus skyrocketed. One study estimated that the United States lockdown measures saved a total of 4,000 lives, approximately ten percent of the number of Americans who die annually from the flu. In contrast, there were 100,000 non-Covid 'excess deaths' per year in 2020 and 2021 according to the CDC. Young adult deaths ran 27% above historical trends due to increased accidents, overdoses, and homicides.
After declining in 2018 and 2019, the youth suicide rate soared in 2020 and 2021. Homicides increased 56% in Americans aged 10 to 14 and 44% in ages 15 to 19. Meanwhile, the majority of Covid deaths occurred in Americans who were already above the age of life expectancy.
The lockdown efforts weren’t just futile – they were devastating and counterproductive. A 2023 study from three Johns Hopkins researchers found: 'The science of lockdowns is clear, the data are in: the lives saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed'...
Further, there was ample medical literature warning against lockdowns before March 2020. In 2019, the WHO warned that lockdowns were ineffective and inadvisable. In January 2020, Dr. Howard Markel wrote in the Washington Post that house arrest and mass quarantine would not contain the disease and would have significant societal ramifications. Ten days before California’s first stay-at-home order, 800 public health scientists warned against lockdowns and quarantines in an open letter.
In April 2020, a study revealed that 'full lockdown policies in Western European countries have no evident impacts on the Covid-19 epidemic.' Scientist Mark Changizi wrote at the time, 'Lockdowns were NOT common sense measures. They were hysterical reactions out of fear'...
It turned out the 'scientific basis' for social distancing stemmed from Laura Glass, a fourteen-year-old girl from New Mexico who submitted a school project that argued that separating the population was as effective as a vaccine. But outside of the junior high science fair, the experiment was a disaster...
Doubling Down – 'Go Medieval On It'
'I wish when we went into lockdown, we looked like Italy,' Dr. Deborah Birx told television cameras in August 2020, standing outside in a mask. 'People weren’t allowed out of their houses, and they couldn’t come out but once every two weeks to buy groceries…[They] had to have a certificate that said they were allowed.'
Despite the arrests, the school closures, and the abolition of liberty, American leaders lamented their failure to implement greater tyranny...
In her memoir, she later boasted that she censored Dr. Scott Atlas, the only member of the Trump Administration resisting lockdowns. She worked with the White House Communications team to block him from media appearances and sought to kick him off the Covid task force...
Dr. Fauci has expressed those beliefs as well...
In August 2020, Fauci co-authored an article for Cell. 'America’s Doctor' envisioned permanent human separation, a process that could only be achieved through a system of tyranny even grander than Covid response...
New York Times writer Donald G. McNeil, a frequent correspondent of Fauci’s, urged the country to adopt unconstitutional tyranny in his column from February 28, 2020: 'To Take on the Coronavirus, Go Medieval on It.' He wrote, 'The medieval way, inherited from the era of the Black Death, is brutal: Close the borders, quarantine the ships, pen terrified citizens up inside their poisoned cities.'"
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