Tue Dec 14, 2021 – 1:18 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Political leaders have championed lockdowns and economic restrictions as necessary for protecting the public health and slowing the spread of COVID, but a new comprehensive report said they did not work.
In addition to wrecking economies and creating unemployment, the public health measures did not even substantially reduce hospitalizations or death.
“The economic benefits from more severe actions seem to be related only to reduced COVID cases and not hospitalizations or deaths,” the Georgia Center for Opportunity wrote in its 510-page report. The right-leaning think tank produced the 50-state review in collaboration with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and researchers at Southern Methodist University and Emory University.
The researchers ran a number of statistical tests and collected data points from every state. They concluded there is “statistically significant evidence that the severity of governmental actions was negatively associated with employment 12 months and 15 months after the initiation of the pandemic.”
The paper’s data sources included labor statistics, population surveys and other economic information. The analysts ran 204 forecasts to test the variables.
At most, the rigorous analysis found that the shutdowns were associated with fewer COVID cases overall,
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