{"id":1472514,"date":"2022-05-12T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472514"},"modified":"2022-05-12T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:01:13","slug":"supply-chain-disruptions-are-really-the-effects-of-lockdowns-we-should-never-allow-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supply-chain-disruptions-are-really-the-effects-of-lockdowns-we-should-never-allow-again\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Supply Chain Disruptions\u2019 Are Really The Effects Of Lockdowns We Should Never Allow Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupply-chain-disruptions-are-really-the-effects-of-lockdowns-we-should-never-allow-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/50468238503_c436ae1b76_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In Joe Biden\u2019s painful and inaccurate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/05\/10\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-economy-5\/?utm_source=Byron%20York%27s%20Daily%20Memo%20(05112022)_05\/11\/2022&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=WEX%20-%20Alerts%20-%20York&#038;rid=24927001&#038;env=b9cec31927c4443ead84b9c1a5037d20b9b8eb44dab03108817fac465462d6b3\">speech<\/a> about inflation on Tuesday, he finally shifted from blaming racism for everything to blaming Covid for everything to now blaming \u201cthe supply chain\u201d and \u201cMr. Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine\u201d (that Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/us-nato-helped-trigger-ukraine-war-its-not-siding-putin-admit-it-opinion-1685554\">baited<\/a> Putin into) for everything.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201csupply chain disruptions,\u201d as everyone is painfully aware, are doing everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-baby-formula-shortage-11652188230?st=5yf6qr2w3cmqe46&#038;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">starving babies<\/a> to shooting up the price of everything, as Wednesday\u2019s 8.3 percent annual inflation number <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm?utm_source=Byron%20York%27s%20Daily%20Memo%20(05112022)_05\/11\/2022&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=WEX%20-%20Alerts%20-%20York&#038;rid=24927001&#038;env=b9cec31927c4443ead84b9c1a5037d20b9b8eb44dab03108817fac465462d6b3\">affirmed<\/a> again. They are also not random, and they\u2019re not a virus\u2019s fault. They\u2019re the direct and foreseeable consequence of ill-advised global lockdowns that nearly all of our nation\u2019s political leaders refused to take into account when they and corporate media colluded to gaslight the world into accepting them. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Our historic \u201csupply chain problems\u201d are not the result of happenstance. They are the result of cowardly, ignorant, and just plain malevolent leadership throughout the entire Covid era. <\/p>\n<p>Lockdowns never needed to happen. Global lockdowns were never before advised or attempted for much worse pandemics, they were based on faulty models, and the Information Age doesn\u2019t change their imprudence. The \u201csupply chain\u201d consequences alone, as well as many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hereistheevidence.com\/covid\/\">other horrific<\/a> medical and social consequences, should be enough evidence for all rational people to conclude that we must never, ever lock down again. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gbdeclaration.org\/focused-protection\/\">Focused protection<\/a> of the most vulnerable during the next pandemic? Absolutely. Voluntary prudential health measures that allow societies to keep normal life going? Sure. But never, ever again lockdowns of the kind Americans were forced to endure in Covid-tide, which have resulted in massive, evil social consequences that are only now beginning to be visible. <\/p>\n<p>The supply chains are only the tip of this dark iceberg. As I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/24\/while-everyone-else-panicked-two-years-ago-the-federalist-was-right-about-lockdowns-doing-more-harm-than-good\/\">pointed out<\/a> this March on the two-year anniversary of the beginning of this human rights catastrophe, there are many consequences, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>A June 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w28930\">study<\/a> by world-renowned scientists across 43 countries, for example, found that lockdown length and strength were correlated with excess deaths, often due to delayed or missed medical care. A January 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/eci.13484\">study<\/a> also by world-class scientists found that lockdowns did not reduce Covid deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Besides their at best negligible effect at reducing Covid hospitalizations and deaths, lockdowns caused additional and completely unnecessary deaths from delayed or foregone medical care, as well as through starvation due to drastically increased world poverty. According to also-vindicated legitimate experts like Dr. Martin Kulldorff, lockdowns may have also caused additional\u00a0<em>Covid\u00a0<\/em>deaths due to prolonging the outbreak. In short, lockdowns cost lives, while at best saving none.<\/p>\n<p>Various\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rationalground.com\/the-truth-about-lockdowns\/\">studies<\/a> estimate lockdowns will have caused\u00a0<em>millions\u00a0<\/em>more malaria and tuberculosis deaths, as well as untold increases in cancer severity and deaths, hundreds of thousands more AIDS deaths, and likely millions more starvation deaths and children living hungry long-term. One study in The Lancet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/action\/showPdf?pii=S2214-109X(20)30229-1\">estimated<\/a> up to 2.3 million additional deaths of children globally per year from lockdowns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reality is, it is impossible to just hit \u201cpause\u201d on an economy. An action like this must have millions of unforeseeable effects, and the phrase people are using to summarize some of these butterfly effects now is \u201csupply chain issues.\u201d Justin Hart <a href=\"https:\/\/covidreason.substack.com\/p\/president-biden-and-the-supply-chain?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxODkzNjQwMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTQ0NzQ1OTcsIl8iOiJza3hGcyIsImlhdCI6MTY1MjI5MzMxNCwiZXhwIjoxNjUyMjk2OTE0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNjQyOTUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.U13bwcKw3IeAibHlfBDISiSI4e7RaO4DBHBLBlQP_RA&#038;s=r\">gives<\/a> an example of the effects of shutting down the manufacture of just one item \u2014 toilet paper.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Now imagine you\u2019re an executive down at the fictitious TP supplier \u2018Wipe World.\u2019 The call comes in for the shutdown and you have some serious decisions to make. Production managers at the Big Roll Mill (your supplier for industrial reems of TP) have shut down and will eventually furlough most of the staff. Your shipping contracts will go into default, trucks with slabs of TP rolls tightly wrapped and ready to be dispensed will be called back or even mothballed. The proverbial target of your product is about to hit the fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026So a national shutdown leads to a run on toilet paper, caused by a sudden drop in at-work wiping, leading to massive manufacturing rework, supply-chain shifts, and a janitorial staff\u00a0 forced to walk the halls of vacated buildings like Jack Torrance from\u00a0<em>The Shining,<\/em>\u00a0simulating a proxy population doing their business to keep everything from falling apart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone who had any familiarity with the insane complexity of making anything or any cooperative activity such as education should have logically deduced that \u201cpausing\u201d an entire society is entirely impossible and idiotic to even suggest. The pause will always have its own effects that make a restart at best really complicated and possibly never able to occur. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s already visible in the labor market. We all see the evidence that the shutdowns dampened working-age Americans\u2019 already weak willingness to work. There are \u201chelp wanted\u201d signs everywhere and yet another record high number of able-bodied, working-age people refusing to fill positions needed to resolve the problems lockdowns created. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, the \u201cstimulus\u201d hush money played into that \u2014 another Covid response failure perpetuated by those in power \u2014 but so did the insane panic and the refusal to tell the truth that most working-age people were not at high risk from contracting Covid. So did the lockdowns, which like masks were used not as a health tool but as a manipulation tool, to frighten and control people. That\u2019s also going to have effects that can never be fully undone, including deepening distrust of authorities and public institutions among the minority who were aware of the truth and its mass manipulation in the era of Covid.<\/p>\n<p>This foolish Covid \u201ccure\u201d of lockdowns will end up being much, much worse than the disease. And it never needed to have been foisted on Americans and the entire West in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>All it would have taken was a few more courageous leaders or a less demonic press to protect the American people from responding to a natural disaster with even bigger man-made disasters. But we don\u2019t have either, so Americans punished themselves by suffering 10 times what was in store had we just followed common sense and ridden out the storm with more courage and honesty. <\/p>\n<p>The least we can do to help rectify and correct our shameful behavior is be honest about what we\u2019ve done. Acknowledging that one did wrong is the first essential step towards repentance, which is the first essential step towards restoration and wholeness.<\/p>\n<p>One way would be to stop blaming Covid-19 for our irrational response to it. Instead of saying Covid or \u201cthe pandemic\u201d caused the supply chain issues, like Biden does, we can start saying that <em>lockdowns <\/em>did so. To go a step farther, we can stop calling them \u201csupply chain\u201d issues at all, and call them \u201clockdown consequences.\u201d That is the truth.<\/p>\n<p>We can all also etch in our memories who exactly was complicit in leading us into panic and devastation, and hold them accountable. That is going to require some electoral changes, starting with the man at the top and going right down through state and federal \u201chealth\u201d agencies. No funds for them until they clean house. <\/p>\n<p>It also includes never again believing in any media outlet or writer who proved willing to lie and coerce others with lies. These people have forfeited their moral and professional authority. <\/p>\n<p>Until there is accountability rooted in truth, which starts with telling the truth now and going forward and acting upon it prudently, our society\u2019s vulnerability to mass hysteria will only get worse. That should keep up at night every person who has the power to hold these charlatans accountable and hasn\u2019t yet used that power for its just ends.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/iX1dsZnedpJjPMoP7\">Sign up here to get early access<\/a> to her next ebook, &#8220;101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation.&#8221; Her bestselling ebook is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books for Young Children<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. She is also the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books. In 2013-14 she won a Robert Novak journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on Common Core national education mandates. <\/p>\n<p>Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Joe Biden\u2019s painful and inaccurate speech about inflation on Tuesday, he finally shifted from blaming racism for everything to blaming Covid for everything to now blaming \u201cthe supply chain\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}