https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/
A review of the findings from 35 studies examining the effectiveness and consequences of lockdown policies, with key excerpts and related links.
“The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The costs are legion…
The pro-lockdown evidence is shockingly thin, and based largely on comparing real-world outcomes against dire computer-generated forecasts derived from empirically untested models, and then merely positing that stringencies and ‘nonpharmaceutical interventions’ account for the difference between the fictionalized vs. the real outcome. The anti-lockdown studies, on the other hand, are evidence-based, robust, and thorough, grappling with the data we have (with all its flaws) and looking at the results in light of controls on the population.”