Juno News - Public officials aren't considering the harms of the lockdowns

In this episode, I discuss the devastating impact of lockdown restrictions and the lack of cost benefit analysis done by governments on public health, and the need for government officials to run the numbers and do the math. It s a total scandal that governments are not running the numbers, and that no one is doing the math on the impact of the curfews and lockdown restrictions.

00:00:00.000 that phrase the cure cannot be worse than the illness we're hearing it so much it's become

00:00:10.000 something of a cliche but the question still remains is it what's the answer to that question

00:00:15.840 have governments run the numbers have they done the math you know not a day goes by now when there

00:00:21.360 isn't a headline that discusses all of the different fallout the consequences the harms

00:00:25.840 that are coming from the various restrictions last week i was speaking to the president and ceo of

00:00:29.920 sick kids hospital who told me that they have seen an unprecedented spike in admissions for

00:00:35.280 eating disorders among children and teens wow and he got on the phone he called his american

00:00:40.320 counterparts he said are you guys seeing this as well and they said yeah we are we're now doing a

00:00:44.720 systematic study into all that to conclude what's going on here what are the drivers from it but

00:00:49.680 you better believe that they have a hunch that the pandemic the anxiety the restrictions that they

00:00:54.720 have something to do with it i got a call the other day from one doctor who said man the suicide

00:00:59.600 attempts i'm seeing the mental illness people even asking for medically assisted dying before their 0.66

00:01:05.680 time those are going up he's really concerned this doctor's seeing those very things and yet we can have

00:01:11.600 these press conferences where the various public health officials and politicians they got up to the

00:01:15.920 podium they say coronavirus numbers are rising and we got to bring in curfews and we got to shut down

00:01:21.440 this and shut down that we got to further close the walls in on people and they can speak for a

00:01:26.320 whole hour about this stuff without even mentioning those other things i talked about so what is the

00:01:32.400 answer to that question the harms outweighing the benefits the cure being worse than the illness i spoke

00:01:38.800 to dr ari joff he's based in edmonton he did a 40-page research paper where he concluded that the harms of

00:01:45.120 lockdowns are 10 times greater than their benefits well i think that work should at the very least be

00:01:51.200 duplicated by governments they should start asking the same questions they should be running those

00:01:56.080 numbers to well try and check hey is that true because the experts who are running the numbers say

00:02:01.920 yeah it certainly seems like the harms are outweighing the benefits but to date it seems no government has

00:02:08.000 actually done that cost benefit analysis that is a major problem a failure of leadership it is a total

00:02:14.880 scandal that all the harms we're seeing in society are actually not being put together cohesively

00:02:20.400 and that basic question that i know we're tired of it i know it's become a cliche but it has not

00:02:26.080 been answered at least not by government officials the experts say yeah we actually think the harms are

00:02:32.400 uh outweighing all of the benefits so people out there they have to demand demand that government

00:02:38.000 officials actually run these numbers a bit more and think more about the consequences the harms put them

00:02:44.000 more in the balance of these lockdown restrictions is there a better way certainly seems like there

00:02:49.840 could be and certainly seems based on all these reports we're hearing that there needs to be

Juno News - January 12, 2021

Public officials aren't considering the harms of the lockdowns

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