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Doctors raise alarm about health effects of continued coronavirus shutdown: 'Mass casualty incident'

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More than 600 doctors signed onto a letter sent to President Trump Tuesday pushing him to end the "national shutdown,” calling widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a "mass casualty incident" with "exponentially growing health consequences."
The letter outlines a variety of consequences that the doctors have observed resulting from the coronavirus shutdowns, including patients missing routine checkups that could detect things like heart problems or cancer, increases in substance and alcohol abuse,
and increases in financial instability that could lead to "[p]overty and financial uncertainty," which "is closely linked to poor health."
"We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients," the doctors say in their letter. "The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error."
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The lockdown was a waste of time and could kill more than it saved, says Nobel laureate fr24news.com/a/2020/05/the-… via @FR24 News English
Michael Levitt, a professor at Stanford University who correctly predicted the initial magnitude of the pandemic, suggested that the decision to keep people inside was motivated by “panic” rather than better science.
Professor Levitt also said that the modeling that led the government to impose the foreclosure – done by Professor Neil Ferguson – had overestimated the number of deaths by “10 or 12 times”.
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So, a national lockdown, w/continued delays of necessary health exams & medical procedures, forced unemployment & mass poverty, skyrocketing depression, family conflict & emotional trauma is the right response to a virus that will kill far less than 0.1% of the world's population
Not to mention, that as in Neera’s case, MANY have bowed to the “science gods” and to state govts’ tyrannical power grabs and have stayed home, worn masks, washed hands, sanitized home surfaces and their mail - all the “right” things - yet, they have still contracted the virus.
It’s also absurd for Krugman to postulate that we, at any point, ever, in history, have all been safe. Or that there is even the remotest possibility that we can, ever, all be safe. Just as inane is to suggest that if every single one of us is not safe, NONE of us are safe
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Boris Johnson’s top aide Dominic Cummings defends his 260-mile lockdown trip claiming it was "essential" that he and his sick wife drive 260 miles to be near family in case they needed childcare. He said he doesn’t care what anyone thinks bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
"The lockdown rules were very clear: if you or anyone in your household was suspected of having Covid-19 you must immediately self-isolate and not leave the house," said a Labour spokesman.
"However, the prime minister's chief adviser appears to believe that it is one rule for him and another for the British people.
"This will cause understandable anger for the millions of people who have sacrificed so much during this crisis."
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