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DO LOCKDOWNS WORK?

There has been much debate regarding lockdowns and the negative results they carry. What are the governments around the world basing their strategies on? Remember, this is the 1st time in recent history where lockdowns have been imposed for a coronavirus. But, do they work?

Here are 30 studies from various medical journals showing that lockdowns do not work.

1. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13484

2. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.22.20160341v3

3. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X/fulltext

4.https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprint/Comment_on_Dehning_et_al_Science_15_May_2020_eabb9789_Inferring_change_points_in_the_spread_of_COVID-19_reveals_the_effectiveness_of_interventions_/12362645

5. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.02090.pdf

6. https://www.datascienceassn.org/sites/default/files/Illusory%20Effects%20of%20Non-pharmaceutical%20Interventions%20on%20COVID19%20in%20Europe.pdf

7. https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-end-of-exponential-growth-the-decline-in-the-spread-of-coronavirus/

8. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.20088260v2

9. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1

10. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.26.20202267v1

11. https://www.nicholaslewis.org/did-lockdowns-really-save-3-million-covid-19-deaths-as-flaxman-et-al-claim/

12. https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3588

13. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047860v3

14. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652751/

15. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607803

16. https://imgcdn.larepublica.co/cms/2020/05/21180548/JP-Morgan.pdf

17. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768086

18. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.09.20210146v3

19. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665588

20. https://www.nber.org/papers/w27719

21. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3543

22. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1

23. https://pandata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exploring-inter-country-variation.pdf

24. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717

25.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.04.20168112v1#:~:text=The%20seroprevalence%20of%20COVID%2D19,care%20workers%20in%20Niger%20State

26. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339/full

27. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00779954.2020.1844786?journalCode=rnzp20

28. http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2006/2006-09-15-diseasemitigationcontrolpandemicflu.html

29. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.25.20248853v1

30. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248936v1