{"id":1786842,"date":"2022-12-26T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786842"},"modified":"2022-12-26T08:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:49:49","slug":"lockdown-deaths-in-2020-were-42-of-excess-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lockdown-deaths-in-2020-were-42-of-excess-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Deaths in 2020 Were 42% of Excess Deaths"},"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\">18<\/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%2Flockdown-deaths-in-2020-were-42-of-excess-deaths%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=1786842&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--><p class=\"has-drop-cap\">There were virtually no Covid vaccinations given in 2020 (0.8 percent of population, and only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/controller\/datarequest\/D8;jsessionid=BECDA6E54E873082E23743059493\">18 Covid vaccine deaths reported to VAERS<\/a>), which makes it an ideal year for analyzing excess Covid deaths vs. excess lockdown deaths, which I am defining to include all excess deaths above Covid deaths, including iatrogenic deaths, and all other Nonpharmaceutical Intervention-caused deaths. Excess deaths, of course, are those above the actuarily expected number of deaths in the year that are predictable.<\/p>\n<p>The relevant numbers recorded for 2020 are as follows, in thousands:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy wp-image-17771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/de998fb6-8212-4f10-b063-907f06f20dad_660x268.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/de998fb6-8212-4f10-b063-907f06f20dad_660x268.jpg 660w, https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/de998fb6-8212-4f10-b063-907f06f20dad_660x268-400x162.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/de998fb6-8212-4f10-b063-907f06f20dad_660x268-600x244-1.jpg 600w\" alt=\"excess deaths\" width=\"660\" height=\"268\"   style=\"display:none\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/de998fb6-8212-4f10-b063-907f06f20dad_660x268.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/de998fb6-8212-4f10-b063-907f06f20dad_660x268.jpg 660w, https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/de998fb6-8212-4f10-b063-907f06f20dad_660x268-400x162.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/de998fb6-8212-4f10-b063-907f06f20dad_660x268-600x244-1.jpg 600w\" alt=\"excess deaths\" width=\"660\" height=\"268\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>The 2020 excess deaths estimate is from the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/373\/bmj.n1137\">BMJ<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Total CDC-recorded Covid deaths in 2020 are from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/91-divoc.com\/\">91-divoc.com<\/a>. Covid deaths in 2020 were recorded liberally, including many \u201cwith Covid\u201d deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Deborah Birx, on the central Covid committee,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/coronavirus-deaths-likely-inflated-25-unwarranted-lost-cordle-cfa\/\">estimated that 25 percent of Covid deaths were probably better attributed to other causes<\/a>. Therefore the 352,000 Covid deaths are multiplied by 0.75, yielding 264,000 Covid deaths. Many would say Birx\u2019s estimate of \u201cwith Covid\u201d deaths is probably low.<\/p>\n<p>Lockdown deaths in 2020 at 194,000 are 42 percent of total excess deaths.\u00a0This is a huge amount. With a data lag of a few weeks, the CDC was publishing Covid and non-Covid excess deaths throughout 2020, so policymakers should have been aware of the collateral damage their policies were causing\u00a0<em>at the time<\/em>. Governments were given\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/governments-were-given-credible-warnings-about-lockdown-harms-but-didnt-listen\/\">credible warnings about the dangers of lockdowns<\/a>, but did not listen.<\/p>\n<p>And this analysis does not even contemplate the long-term damages to children\u2019s education, small business owners and their families, the human capital and social fabric of the nation. The effects of trauma, especially social isolation, can be severe, and last for years (cf.\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma\/dp\/0143127748\">The Body Keeps the Score<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>There can be no debate about whether lockdowns \u201cworked.\u201d They were democidal and totally unjustified. The CDC estimated in 2020 that the infection fatality rate of SARS-Cov-2 was ~0.26 percent, about two and a half times that of influenza (this reference has been scrubbed from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdc.gov\/\">cdc.gov<\/a>). The CDC later revised their estimate up to 0.65 percent.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsh.org\/news\/2020\/11\/18\/covid-infection-fatality-rates-sex-and-age-15163\">A representative age-stratified estimation from 2020 is shown below<\/a>\u00a0(see also\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33716331\/\">Ioannidis\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33716331\/\">article<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy wp-image-17772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021.png 831w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021-326x400-1.png 326w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021-651x800-1.png 651w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021-768x944-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021-600x737-1.png 600w\" alt=\"covid infection fatality rates - sex and age\" width=\"660\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021.png 831w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021-326x400-1.png 326w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021-651x800-1.png 651w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021-768x944-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f6501d52-45bc-4eea-8db9-9f7e8549e837_831x1021-600x737-1.png 600w\" alt=\"covid infection fatality rates - sex and age\" width=\"660\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>For men under 45 and women under 55 the risk is about the same as the flu (~0.1 percent). The steep age gradient,\u00a0<em>disputed by no one,<\/em>\u00a0ensures that those in the low risk groups can go on with life without incurring excessive risk. There were also significant correlations with comorbidities.<\/p>\n<p>So I am adding my voice to the growing chorus shouting that the pandemic policies made no sense and were not about health at all. Given the knowledge of IFRs and this analysis, both available to policymakers contemporaneously, the perversity of their lockdown mandates is inescapably obvious.<\/p>\n<p>My recommendation is that if your state or federal authorities try to lock you down again,\u00a0<em>do not comply.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/\">Brownstone Institute<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. Epoch Health welcomes professional discussion and friendly debate. To submit an opinion piece, please follow these guidelines and submit through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/submission-guidelines_4553495.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our form here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-elliot-middleton\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Elliot Middleton\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Elliott Middleton graduated with distinction in English literature from Yale and received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado. He taught at small colleges for 17 years before entering financial services as a decision scientist, at US Bank, Chase JP Morgan, UBS, and others.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were virtually no Covid vaccinations given in 2020 (0.8 percent of population, and only\u00a018 Covid vaccine deaths reported to VAERS), which makes it an ideal year for analyzing excess Covid deaths vs. excess lockdown deaths, which I am defining to include all excess deaths above Covid deaths, including iatrogenic deaths, and all other Nonpharmaceutical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,3652,10094,5458,4498,9593,6290,3819,4419],"class_list":["post-1786842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-3652","tag-10094","tag-bongino","tag-deaths","tag-excess","tag-lockdown","tag-report","tag-were"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786842","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}