"severe restrictions ... closures of businesses and in-person school, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates... did not significantly change the typical pattern or damage from the SARS2 virus." 1/n https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/01/27/will_the_truth_on_covid_restrictions_really_prevail_145128.html#

@JoeBiden “there is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”

So Joe, can we try focused protection, stop the damage and get on with life? 2/n

A successful case study:
"Florida, a large, diverse, highly populated state, stands out as having one of the highest percentages of vulnerable elderly in the entire nation"
"Florida’s deaths per capita has also beaten half the country as well as the national average." 3/n

"Florida widely opened schools and businesses months ago, discarded most mobility restrictions, and ended mandates. Florida did not eliminate cases, hospitalizations, or deaths, but Florida has outperformed many states during the recent surge" 4/n
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/us-coronavirus-deaths-by-state-july-1.html

"The harms to children of closing in-person schooling are dramatic, including poor learning, school dropouts, social isolation, and suicidal ideation, most of which are far worse for lower-income groups." 5/n

"78% of cancers were never detected due to missed screening over three months.... three-fourths to over a million new cases over nine months will have gone undetected."
Cancers are the 2nd leading cause of deaths. 6/n

"That health disaster adds to missed critical surgeries, delayed presentations of pediatric illnesses, heart attack and stroke patients too afraid to call emergency services"

Cardiac disease is the leading cause of deaths.

Are there lives more important than other lives? 7/n

"CDC reported four-fold increases in depression, three-fold increases in anxiety symptoms, and a doubling of suicidal ideation, particularly among young adults"

Was this an exercise in self-preservation rather than compassion-as claimed? 8/n

"Domestic abuse and child abuse have been skyrocketing due to the isolation and specifically to the loss of jobs"
" hundreds of thousands of abuse cases are never reported"
Is your heart squeezing just a bit? 9/n

"the unemployment “shock” from lockdowns ... will generate a 3% increase in mortality rate and a 0.5% drop in life expectancy over the next 15 years... a “staggering” 890,000 additional U.S. deaths from the lockdowns"

Are you comfortable with these numbers? 10/n

"Perhaps that is why lockdowns were not recommended in previous pandemic analyses, even for infections with far higher death rates."
Were you aware that such restrictions were never recommended or used on such a big scale for such a long duration in the past? 11/n

Public health is about reducing total harm.

"To determine the best path forward, shouldn’t policymakers objectively consider both the data and the totality of impact of policies to date?"

12/n

1st step tp solving the problem:
"admitting that social lockdowns and significant restrictions on individuals are deadly and extraordinarily harmful, especially on the working class and poor." 13/n

"we are seeing the light at the end of the long tunnel with the rollout of vaccines, now at 1.5 million per day."

This is great but look who is getting the vaccines
14/n

Here's another mismanagement by governments:
"the new vaccines have been more frequently administered first to healthier, younger people instead of those at risk to die... many have given more than 80% to low-risk age groups"

Who should be offered the vaccine first? 15/n

Let's step back into history...
"Just as in Galileo’s time... Many universities have overtly intimidated views contrary to their own... Without permitting, indeed encouraging, open debate and admission of errors, we might never solve any future crisis." 16/n

Do you believe that scientific debate is essential for knowledge and science to progress? 17/n

which one of your liberties and freedoms are you willing to let go of? 18/n

How much more are you willing to sacrifice?
How much longer are you willing to turn a blind eye to reality?
Is this the world you wish for your kids to inherit? 19/19