1/ "Covid Lockdown Cost/Benefits:
Critical Assessment of Literature"
Dr Douglas Allen, PhD, Cdn Prof of Economics, Simon Fraser Univ examined >80 Covid studies: "possible lockdown will go down as one of greatest peacetime policy failures in🇨🇦's history"
▶️sfu.ca/~allen/Lockdow…
Critical Assessment of Literature"
Dr Douglas Allen, PhD, Cdn Prof of Economics, Simon Fraser Univ examined >80 Covid studies: "possible lockdown will go down as one of greatest peacetime policy failures in🇨🇦's history"
▶️sfu.ca/~allen/Lockdow…
2/ "By late April 2020, it was already known that:
i) empirical predictions of SIRS based models were wrong
ii) that the models made a number of questionable assumptions
iii) that the deaths were highly skewed to the elderly
iv) that the costs were large"
i) empirical predictions of SIRS based models were wrong
ii) that the models made a number of questionable assumptions
iii) that the deaths were highly skewed to the elderly
iv) that the costs were large"
3/ "By August 2020, there was enough information available to show that any reasonable cost/benefit analysis would show that lockdown was creating more harm than good. It is unreasonable to suggest that a proper decision could not have been made in the fall."
4/ In Canada, plausible "benefit of lockdown was avoidance of extra 22,333 yrs of lost life. However, cost of lockdown was 6,300,000 yrs of lost life"
Dr Allen concludes overall long-term societal harms of lockdowns in🇨🇦alone are a staggering 282X worse than any supposed benefit
Dr Allen concludes overall long-term societal harms of lockdowns in🇨🇦alone are a staggering 282X worse than any supposed benefit
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