May 31, 2022

Since the start of the COVID-19 War on Lunar New Year, The Year of the Rat 2020, the Trends Journal had noted that the draconian lockdown measures being imposed by governments lacked scientific data and instead were based on political science.  

The politicians and their health officials—small minded people with power—declared the virus would not be able to spread because people would not be around each other and would not bring the disease home with them. Governments got to select what businesses were essential and “non-essential,” and lives were destroyed. 

The further the public gets from these lockdowns, the more apparent it is that they were ineffective in preventing the spread, but very effective in destroying lives. See:

The most recent study came from an international team of economists from Johns Hopkins University and other organizations. The updated review found that the average effect of all COVID-19 shutdown measures in the U.S., U.K., and Europe only reduced mortality by just over 3 percent in 2020, The Daily Mail reported.

The researchers said they revised their report from last year that stated COVID lockdowns only reduced mortality rates by 0.2 percent. That study was largely ignored in the media in January, they said. 

The authors felt the lack of media coverage was unsurprising stating some of these “left-wing publications avoided the story because they wanted to ‘maintain fear around the pandemic.’”

Even with the revised numbers, researchers say stricter lockdowns “are not an effective way of reducing mortality rates during a pandemic, at least not during the first wave of the COVID pandemic.”

“Overall, our meta-analysis supports the conclusion that lockdowns—at least in the spring of 2020—had little to no effect on Covid mortality,” they wrote, according to the report.

China remains one of the only countries still pursuing a “Zero-COVID” policy, and sees lockdowns within major cities as the most effective way to limit the spread of the virus. 

The number of new, symptomatic cases on the mainland fell to 20 on Sunday, which CNBC said was down from 54 a day earlier. Beijing announced eight new Covid cases and Shanghai recorded six, the report said. Both cities are expected to loosen their guidelines in the next few days.

TREND FORECAST: As the data proves, and as we had forecast, the lockdowns and mandates imposed by autocratic politicians have destroyed the businesses, lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions—if not billions, of people.