By u/JustHereToNotBeFined on Reddit – In this thread I’ll be compiling all the detrimental effects that our response to COVID19 have caused. Mind you, no matter what the headlines of many of these articles try to claim, SARS-COV2 is a respiratory virus that causes respiratory symptoms. It cannot cause any of these other things. Let’s begin.
Mental health:
1 in 5 adults developed mental disorders – https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/1-in-5-adults-developed-pandemic-related-mental-disorders-analysis/article33417333.ece
1 in 4 young adults suicidal – https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-health/527380-75-percent-of-young-adults-mentally-struggling-with
Effects of isolation on elderly – (1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25697700/
(3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5847278/
Effects of isolation on the future health of children – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/205331
Young people in HK struggling with mental illness – https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/alarming-rise-in-hong-kong-young-people-struggling-with-mental-health-issues-amid-covid-19-pandemic-experts-warn/ar-BB1a7CSq
Mental illness in children rising due to lockdowns – https://newschannel20.com/news/local/hospitals-see-high-rates-of-mental-illness-in-children-during-pandemic
Half of young adults showing signs of depression – https://fee.org/articles/harvard-researchers-nearly-half-of-young-adults-showing-signs-of-depression-amid-pandemic/
The mental health of students – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55105044
Suicidal thoughts greater in those under restrictions and unchanged in those without any – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178120323477
Prevalence of depression before and after in the US – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770146
Cases of depression in the US have tripled – https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/us-cases-of-depression-have-tripled-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
Quote from Robert Redfield: “*But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools. We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID.”* – https://www.buckinstitute.org/covid-webinar-series-transcript-robert-redfield-md/
Washington Department of Health says depression will increase massively – https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/BHG-COVID19StatewideSummaryForecastofBHImpacts-July2020Update.pdf
US Census shows 48% of Wa adults have depression – https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp15.html#tables
Lockdowns pose great threat to mental health – https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/27/covid-poses-greatest-threat-to-mental-health-since-second-world-war
Suicides:
https://abc7news.com/suicide-covid-19-coronavirus-rates-during-pandemic-death-by/6201962/
Suicides among black people spiked during lockdowns – https://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-black-suicides-pandemic-20201216-2g46em2d2nd5vjwlu7q2uq5x6y-story.html
Suicides up sharply in Toronto – https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-suicides-on-the-ttc-have-risen-sharply-over-the-last-eight-months/
Projected increase in suicides in Canada – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236718/
Trends in suicide during the pandemic – https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4352
Canadians in quarantine twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts – https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/quarantine-mental-health-1.5809865
Military suicides up 20% – https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-27/military-suicides-increase-covid-19-pandemic
Suicides up among children – https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/09/24/cook-childrens-alarming-rise-suicide-patients/
Male suicides up – https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/01/male-suicide-rate-england-wales-covid-19
Economy and Poverty:
8 million Americans pushed into poverty – https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/16/poverty-rising/
A year of lockdowns has destroyed a decade of progress – https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-19-development-progress-reversed-1.5849383
10k Canadian restaurants gone forever – https://www.narcity.com/en-ca/eat-drink/canadian-restaurant-closures-reach-10000-in-2020-the-job-loss-numbers-are-shocking
Black and Latino tnenats more affected by evictions – https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/15/the-most-lopsided-economic-event-imaginable-wave-of-evictions-threatens-black-latino-tenants-445387
Economic importance of in-person school – https://www.nber.org/papers/w28200
The 8 month lockdown in Buenos Aires forced more people into poverty – https://archive.vn/MoaOx
150 million people forced into extreme poverty – https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/covid-19-to-add-as-many-as-150-million-extreme-poor-by-2021
Lockdowns driving NYC homelessness up – https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/12/09/covid-pandemic-driving-homelessness-in-nyc-to-record-levels-advocates-say/
Economic well-being of millenials at risk – https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/201210/dq201210b-eng.htm
10k US restaurants forced to close – https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/business/restaurant-closures-coronavirus/index.html
Economic toll on young Americans – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/09/coronavirus-young-economy-unemployment-mental-health
2 million UK families pushed into poverty – https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/09/covid-driven-recession-likely-to-push-2m-uk-families-into-poverty
India’s economic recover slower for women – https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-s-post-covid-recovery-in-employment-has-not-been-equal-for-men-and-women-11605509801472.html
NYC bankruptcies surge 40% – https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/new-york-bankruptcies-reportedly-surge-40percent-during-pandemic.html
National lockdowns pushing up to 100 million people into poverty – https://www.economist.com/international/2020/09/26/the-pandemic-is-plunging-millions-back-into-extreme-poverty?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/fromplaguetopenurythepandemicisplungingmillionsbackintoextremepovertyinternational&__twitter_impression=true
Statement from German Minister of Finance – https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/coronakrise-entwicklungsminister-mueller-an-den-folgen-der-lockdowns-werden-weit-mehr-menschen-sterben-als-am-virus/26209144.html
European small businesses closing – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/half-of-europe-s-smaller-businesses-risk-bankruptcy-within-year?sref=RJ2RlMrh
Lockdowns and lack of tourism may increase poverty in Africa – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/safaris-and-wildlife/africa-crisis-loss-tourism-threatens-widespread-poverty-extinctions/
Nearly half of South Africa’s small businesses closed thanks to lockdowns – https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/455100/lockdown-forced-nearly-half-of-small-businesses-in-south-africa-to-close-study/
New Zealand’s success story pushed 70k children into poverty – https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/covid-19-deals-big-blow-reducing-child-poverty-in-nz
90% of New Zealanders who lost their jobs were women – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/25/new-zealand-is-in-a-shecession-so-where-is-the-much-needed-she-covery
Thousands of Aucklanders turn to food banks – https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/423952/thousands-of-aucklanders-turning-to-food-banks
Fewer children are being born – https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/16/covid-19-baby-bust-coronavirus-pandemic-lead-birth-decline/6507974002/
Hunger and Starvation:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/food-banks-sound-alarm-child-hunger-covid-crisis-drags-n1252368
UNICEF for the first time having to feed UK children – https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-55348047
168k child hunger deaths predicted in Africa – https://apnews.com/article/africa-hunger-study-coronavirus-children-0e2a17d63163d8558d203b2824a844fe
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-123716/v1
82% increase in food insecurity – https://www.wfp.org/news/world-food-programme-assist-largest-number-hungry-people-ever-coronavirus-devastates-poor
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/20/nyregion/nyc-food-banks.html
Oxfam on increased hunger deaths – https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/hunger-virus-how-covid-19-fuelling-hunger-hungry-world?cid=aff_affwd_donate_id78888&awc=5991_1602271444_d1341487f388f59fb9852d0a4261b6e3
More Americans are shoplifting food – https://archive.is/tWWWp
2 million Filipino families starving because of lockdowns – https://manilastandard.net/mobile/article/341687
UN says famine and lockdown fallout in 2021 will be catastrophic – https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/un-warns-that-2021-could-be-catastrophic-due-to-covid19-fallout-and-famine/news-story/af6ad98c72e1e6c14456df51dd3a2171
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/3/covid-19-fallout-for-decades-to-come-un-chief
130 million additional people will have food insecurity – https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072712
10k additional children a month could die of hunger – https://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN26Z1VR
https://abcnews.go.com/US/coronavirus-updates-hunger-due-covid-19-killing-10000/story?id=72025029
6k children a die die thanks to lockdown hunger – https://pcpj.org/2020/10/11/6000-children-die-of-hunger-caused-by-corona-every-day/
Almost 1.2 million babies could die because of lockdowns – https://www.marketwatch.com/story/almost-12-million-babies-could-die-during-the-pandemic-but-not-from-the-coronavirus-2020-07-02
Hunger crisis to affect up to 132 million people in sub-Saharan Africa because of lockdowns – https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02281-w?sf236625656=1
Other Effects on Children:
Poor students suffering in online classes – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/affluent-families-ditch-public-schools-widening-u-s-inequality
Lockdowns fuel child labor – https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/lockdown-fuels-child-labour-in-zimbabwe-3230912
FGM up in Africa – https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/covid-19-school-closures-end-fgm-in-kenya/
School closures are bad – https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202012.0199/v1
Negatives of school closures more than benefits – https://www.unicef.org/media/86881/file/Averting-a-lost-covid-generation-world-childrens-day-data-and-advocacy-brief-2020.pdf
Teen pregnance in Kenya up – https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/24/sex-for-sanitary-pads-how-kenyas-lockdown-led-to-a-rise-in-teenage-pregnancy
Negative impacts of lockdowns on children – https://www.unicef.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Unicef-UK-Children-In-Lockdown-Coronavirus-Impacts-Snapshot.pdf
Sharp rise of eating disorders in children – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55468632
Substance Abuse:
OD deaths at highest point in 12 month period – https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-deaths-covid-19.html
Canadian OD deaths – (1) https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/mobile/alberta-sets-record-904-opioid-deaths-to-date-in-2020-cites-covid-19-as-factor-1.5238113
(2) https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/overdose-deaths-reach-1-386-in-b-c-1.24245322
(3) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opioid-cases-increase-first-half-of-2020-1.5697199
(4) https://globalnews.ca/news/7482310/overdose-deaths-saskatchewan/
US ODs rising – https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/us/cdc-pandemic-fatal-drug-overdoses-rise/index.html
More people are using drugs – https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-people-are-taking-drugs-for-anxiety-and-insomnia-and-doctors-are-worried-11590411600
Fentanyl ODs up 60% – https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/09/14/fentanyl-related-overdose-deaths-increase-more-60-march
Every week of lockdowns increases binge drinking – https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201207091306.htm
Domestic/Sexual Abuse:
US lockdowns trigger surge in domestic abuse – https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200410/us-lockdowns-trigger-surge-in-domestic-violence
Child abuse up in Uganda because of lockdowns – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpc.15289
Child abuse up – https://www.wcvb.com/article/health-experts-note-pandemics-possible-impacts-on-child-abuse/34932582
School closures inhibit child abuse reports – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7441889/
Domestic violence up – https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/incidents-of-domestic-violence-are-skyrocketing-during-covid/281-c8d650b6-b568-437b-948c-861768e92a57
Male domestic abuse up – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54237409
Abuse more severe during lockdowns – https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ts/news/canada/2020/11/25/canada-wide-survey-of-womens-shelters-shows-abuse-more-severe-during-pandemic.html
Child sexual abuse underreported during lockdowns – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54169197
https://abcnews.go.com/US/child-abuse-risk-remains-concern-amid-continued-covid/story?id=74749711
Childline reports surge – https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/childline-reports-surge-in-contacts-during-very-difficult-year-1.4444773?mode=amp
Undiagnosed Diseases:
(2) https://www.ajmc.com/view/lung-cancer-screenings-drop-biopsy-rates-rise-during-covid-19
(3) https://www.onclive.com/view/covid-19-drives-decreases-in-cancer-screening-diagnoses-and-treatments
(6) https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/is-a-delayed-cancer-diagnosis-a-consequence-of-covid-19
(7) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2768946
(8) https://www.iknl.nl/covid-19
Cancer deaths up during lockdown – (1) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30388-0/fulltext
(3) https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/11/e043828
(5) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462880/
(6) 35k excess cancer deaths thanks to lockdowns – https://archive.is/ZKmaj
Portion of excess deaths due to lockdowns – (1) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/13/us/deaths-covid-other-causes.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Malaria deaths to be higher in Africa – https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-malaria-who-idUSKBN28A009?taid=5fc44675585f620001e51792&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Disruption of other health and services – https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/15160
In Austria more people apparently died from undiagnosed cardiac effects – https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/19/1852/5820829
Excess cardiac deaths – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293523/
Heart attack diagnoses down – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151384/
33% drop in heart attack patients, 58% drop in stroke patients – https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/dramatic-drops-in-er-visits-likely-led-to-uncounted-deaths/
Stress related heart problems up thanks to the stress of lockdowns – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2768093
15k extra Alzheimer deaths not related to COVID – https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pandemic-led-to-surge-in-alzheimers-deaths-11593345601
People dying because of lockdowns – https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/07/10/more-people-are-dying-during-the-pandemic-and-not-just-from-covid-19
Lockdowns and supply chain disruptions threaten to erase progress made in fighting HIV, TB and Malaria – https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#link-752c4fe7
I think we can now see why lockdowns were not considered in any pandemic response protocol. They are destructive, immoral and terrible. And as shown multiple times, they are also ineffective.
The lockdowns of 2020 should go down in history as one of modern society’s greatest mistakes, to be a lesson on how NOT to create public policy and should never be repeated ever again in the future. It’s a story not of human ingenuity or innovation, but of regression into medieval tactics, using what can only be described as modern day Rain Dances. It’s a story of terrible pain and horror that won’t end because our pride won’t allow us to admit that this was a mistake, an act of hubris on a worldwide scale. These restrictions are a testament to human arrogance.
Well done, this is exactly the kind of information that needs to be broadcasted massively.
The only regret is that the author doesn’t make the right and logical conclusion, and given all the facts he took time to assemble about the immense amount of suffering caused by corrupt government who impose lockdowns, curfews and other human right abuses, he doesn’t mention that these are CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY and the criminals behind it will have to pay for it.