We achieved our goal with the lockdowns

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History will judge the global lock downs as one of the most disastrous decisions ever made by govertnments.

The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History



THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) STATES THAT BY THE END OF THE YEAR, MORE THAN 260 MILLION PEOPLE WILL FACE STARVATION — DOUBLE LAST YEAR'S FIGURES.



The forcible prevention of Americans from doing anything except what politicians deem "essential" has led to the worst economy in American history since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is panic and hysteria, not the coronavirus that created this catastrophe. And the consequences in much of the world will be more horrible than in the United States.



The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) states that by the end of the year, more than 260 million people will face starvation — double last year's figures. According to WFP Director David Beasley on April 21: "We could be looking at famine in about three-dozen countries ... There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself" (italics added).



That would be enough to characterize the worldwide lockdown as a deathly error. But there is much more. If global gross domestic product (GDP) declines by 5%, another 147 million people could be plunged into extreme poverty, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute.



Foreign Policy magazine reports that, according to the International Monetary Fund, the global economy will shrink by 3% in 2020, marking the biggest downturn since the Great Depression, and the U.S., the eurozone and Japan will contract by 5.9%, 7.5% and 5.2%, respectively. Meanwhile, across South Asia, as of a month ago, tens of millions already were "struggling to put food on the table." Again, all because of the lockdowns, not the virus.



In one particularly incomprehensible act, the government of India, a poor country of 1.3 billion people, locked down its people. As Quartz India reported on April 22, "Coronavirus has killed only around 700 Indians ... a small number still compared to the 450,000 TB (tuberculosis) and 10,000-odd malaria deaths recorded every year."



The lockdown is "possibly even more catastrophic (than the virus) in its outcome: the collapse of global food-supply systems and widespread human starvation" (italics added). That was published in the left-wing The Nation, which, nevertheless, enthusiastically supports lockdowns. But the American left cares as much about the millions of non-Americans reduced to hunger and starvation because of the lockdown as it does about the people of upstate New York who have no income, despite the minuscule number of coronavirus deaths there. Or about the citizens of Oregon, whose governor recently announced the state will remain locked down until July 6. As of this writing, a total of 109 people have died of the coronavirus in Oregon.



An example of how disinterested the left is in worldwide suffering is made abundantly clear in a front-page "prayer" by a left-wing Christian in the current issue of The Nation: "May we who are merely inconvenienced remember those whose lives are at stake."



"Merely inconvenienced" is how Rev. William J. Barber II, a Protestant minister and president of the North Carolina National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) describes the tens of millions of Americans rendered destitute, not to mention the hundreds of millions around the world rendered not only penniless but hungry. The truth is, like most of the elites, it is Barber who is "merely inconvenienced." Indeed, the American battle today is between the merely inconvenienced and the rest of America.



Michael Levitt, professor of structural biology at Stanford Medical School and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, recently stated, "There is no doubt in my mind that when we come to look back on this, the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor."

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At first, I accepted that lock downs were necessary, but after seeing the devastation they've caused, I no longer do.