What We Knew In the Early Days
The claim is now everywhere: we had to lock down because we just didn’t know about this virus. It was all very confusing and we had to play it safe. We had no other option because we just had no clarity about what we were dealing with. The precautionary principle dictated the unprecedented actions.
Actually, the precautionary principle goes both directions. It also dictates that we not enact policies that we know for sure would wreck lives and liberties. They did it anyway, without sufficient knowledge that the measures would achieve any positive good.
We approach the third year and people have forgotten that all the harms of lockdowns were strongly warned about by many voices in many venues. In addition, the virus was much better understood back then and openly discussed. We knew for certain that the panic and fear were being wildly overblown.
Below follows resources assembled by The Robber Baron and many others who write for this site. These citations to newspapers, magazines, academic journals, interviews, with many respected voices, show that we certainly knew tremendous amounts in the early days. All the warnings and information were readily available to anyone paying attention.
We certainly live in an age of short attention but all these signs and warnings came months before the world locked down and they chronicled the damage as it was happening. Why all this came to be completely ignored remains the burning question.
2019: WHO Global Influenza Programme recommends against lockdowns and masks
Sept 2019: Johns Hopkins pandemic preparedness study recommends against lockdowns
Jan 20: Obama health adviser says stop panicking
Jan 24: Doctor warns that mass quarantine won’t work and will devastate society
Feb 5: Fauci says there’s no asymptomatic spread
Feb 28: Fauci says this is more akin to flu than something more deadly
Mar: 81% of Chinese Covid cases are mild
Mar 1: Sweden: No effective measure to let healthy school children stay at home
Mar 2: Discussion on how Covid IFR was likely much lower than predicted
Mar 2: 800 public health scientists warn against lockdowns, quartantines, restrictions
Mar 3: Article on why masks are impractical
Mar 3: Berkeley doctor indicates masks are not helpful in preventing Covid
Mar 4: Doctor says Covid not nearly as deadly as feared
Mar 4: Your doctor is not panicking and neither should you
Mar 9: Article on how Covid is only really dangerous to the elderly
Mar 9: Doctor talking about unnecessary panic over Covid
Mar 12: Review found severe mental health problems from prolonged quarantine
Mar 12: Chief medical officer saying people shouldn’t wear masks
Mar 15: Medical org. says stopping elective surgeries is unnecessary and dangerous
Mar 17: Covid response is focused on the wrong things
Mar 17: Warning of financial crisis, unrest, civil strife, war, and a meltdown of the social fabric
Mar 19: Article about Covid overaction and its issues
Mar 25: Data about the health impacts of crushing the economy
Mar 26: Early evidence of hospitals inaccurately listing Covid as cause of death
Mar 26: Early data shows we’re overreacting to Covid
Mar 28: Predictions about the harms of lockdowns: Drugs, Suicide, and Crime
Mar 28: Guardian outlines rise in domestic abuse throughout the world
Mar 30: Study showing children are not the primary spreader of Covid
Apr 1: Article saying masks offer little to no advantage outside of hospital settings
Apr 3: An overview on the dangers of Lockdowns
Apr 4: Warning of the harm in delaying non-Covid medical procedures
Apr 4: Study from China finds of 7,324 COVID-19 cases only 2 transmissions occurred outdoors
Apr 6: U.N. warns about domestic violence surge
Apr 6: Piece on domestic abuse during lockdown
Apr 7: Piece on the mental health cost of the lockdown on kids
Apr 8: Research showing the seasonality of Coronaviruses
Apr 13: More confirmation about domestic abuse rising due to lockdowns
Apr 14: Children are very unlikely to contract Covid
Apr 15: Barely any transmission from outdoor activities
Apr 15: Different approaches by countries have little impact on Covid deaths
Apr 15: Molecular Biologist suggests the cure is worse than the disease
Apr 16: Research showing school lockdowns aren’t helpful and cause great harm
Apr 16: UN overview about the poverty/death that will come from lockdowns
Apr 16: CDC mask study concludes that masks don’t work
Apr 17: Info on how damaging canceled procedures are
Apr 20: Oxford professor says cases in UK peaked before lockdown
Apr 22: Potential for 60,000 cancer deaths due to lack of screening/treatment
Apr 23: The harm lockdowns are having on people with heart conditions
Apr 24: Data on the mental health toll of lockdowns
Apr 24: Indications from Europe that lockdowns are ineffective
Apr 24: Study showing school closings are the least cost-effective pandemic policy
Apr 26: The rise of domestic abuse during lockdowns
Apr 26: Data that the infection rate from kids is extremely low
Apr 28: Increasing child abuse is a side effect of Covid lockdowns
Apr 29: Cancer deaths could increase by 20% due to lockdown
Nov 20: No evidence of asymptomatic spread in study of 10M Wuhan residents
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