A Johns Hopkins professor slammed his university and the mainstream media for downplaying a study conducted by economists at the university that found that COVID-19 lockdowns only reduced virus deaths by 0.2 percent.
Dr. Martin Makary warned that ‘people may already have their own narrative written’ about the effectiveness of lockdowns in an interview with Tucker Carlson Wednesday night.
‘Johns Hopkins itself did not even put out a press release about this study, and if you look at the media coverage, it’s one of the biggest stories in the world today, and yet certain media outlets have not even covered it,’ Makary told the Fox News host.
Makary is a professor of surgery at the private university in Baltimore. He was not involved in the study.
Economists at the college carried out a meta-analysis and found that restrictions imposed in the spring of 2020 – including stay-at-home orders, compulsory masks and social distancing – only reduced COVID mortality by 0.2 percent.
They warned that lockdowns caused ‘enormous economic and social costs’ and concluded that they were ‘ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument’ going forward.
Who cares ? I have worked throughout this nonsense. Tightened my tie and slapped on a mask and tended all my accounts up and down the Eastern Sea Board. So what you have to strap on a nappy to get into Wal-Mart you probably should under normal circumstances. The people most ButtHurt about all this had nothing going for themselves in the first place. Boohoo you have not seen your grandbabies or been to Chick-fil-A lately. Buck UP.