New York Magazine is featuring an article called "COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure." The authors are two excellent journalists, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean, who have also written a new book called The Big Fail, which I have not read but intend to.
The ascent of the book and thesis is hugely important, if only to further blunt the impact of Michael Lewis's The Premonition, which came out in 2021 with the purpose of valorizing the absolute worst of the lockdowners.
The worry at the time was that Lewis's book, like The Big Short, would become a major movie that would codify lockdowns as the right way to deal with infectious disease.
The orthodoxy in public health survived even up to a few weeks before the lockdowns began.
In the U.S. and the U.K. especially, lockdowns went from being regarded as something that only an authoritarian government would attempt to an example of "Following the science." But there was never any science behind lockdowns - not a single study had ever been undertaken to measure their efficacy in stopping a pandemic.
It's time to be clear about the fact that lockdowns for any purpose other than keeping hospitals from being overrun in the short term were a mistake that should not be repeated.
You will notice the hedge here: "For any purpose other than keeping hospitals from being overrun." Another way to put it: lockdowns are fine for rationing healthcare.
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/anti-lockdown-goes-mainstream/
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