Joe Biden and his Wuhan virus outbreak chief Jeffrey Zients are considering another outbreak lockdown and are deciding whether to make the weary American people wear masks, yet the National File, a U.S. media outlet, revealed on January 14 an academic research paper that proves what most people, including President Trump, have speculated, that a lockdown on the outbreak would do more harm than good.
The research paper, titled “Rethinking Groupthink in Embargoes, Epidemic Embargoes Cause Ten Times More Harmful Fallout Than Perceived Gains,” and is a peer-reviewed paper, confirms the widely held belief that embargoes have adverse consequences.
The paper’s author, Ari Joffe, PhD, is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Canada, and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta, Canada.
The initial data incorrectly suggested that the virus was lethal in infections of up to 2-3% and that more than 80% of the population would be infected, and the models developed at the time concluded that repeated blockades were necessary.” Dr. Joffe said in an interview, “But emerging data show that the median infectious death rate is 0.23%, the infectious death rate among people under 70 years of age is 0.05%, and the high-risk group is the elderly, especially those with severe comorbidities.”
Dr. Joffe said the new data on the embargo and its consequences show an alarming array of “collateral damage” caused by the embargo. He estimated that the continuation of unnecessary embargoes globally could easily have a negative impact on millions of people worldwide. “
Dr. Joffe’s study cites the following problems associated with the embargo.
Insecure food supplies would affect 8,200-132 million people
An epidemic embargo could push 70 million people into severe poverty
Disruptions in health care caused by the embargo could result in maternal abortions and deaths of children under 5 years of age, which would affect 1.7 million people
Disruptions in health services due to the embargo will increase deaths from infectious diseases, affecting millions of people living with tuberculosis, malaria and HIV
Childhood school closures affect children’s future earning potential and life expectancy
Disruption of vaccination services for millions of children
Intimate partner violence affects millions of women
Dr. Joffe also went on to list the adverse effects associated with high-income countries, such as delayed and disrupted health care, unemployment, loneliness, deteriorating mental health, increased deaths from the drug crisis, alcoholism, and suicide.
Dr. Joffe also slammed the Administration, which has never conducted a formal cost-benefit analysis, for blindly supporting epidemic lockdowns, masking and other draconian control methods.
Dr. Joffe said, “There has been no formal cost-benefit analysis of the different responses to the outbreak by the government or public health experts. Initially, I too believed that a lockdown was the best way to contain the outbreak. But public health policymaking should be subject to a cost-benefit analysis. A blockade is a public health intervention designed to improve the well-being of a population, and we must consider both the benefits of a blockade and the costs it entails in terms of population well-being. Once I became more informed, I realized that the scope of harm from the embargo goes far beyond the function of the embargo in preventing the spread of the epidemic.”
Dr. Joffe urged people to better educate themselves on the issue of the outbreak embargo and to use accurate information to alleviate unnecessary fears. He said, “We need to focus on a cost-benefit analysis and not base our decisions about repeated blockades or long-term outbreak blockades solely on the numbers of outbreak infections.”
He concluded by saying, “We should focus on protecting the high-risk populations, who are hospitalized patients, elderly people in nursing homes, people in crowded situations, people 70 and older, and especially people with severe comorbidities. We can’t block all of them regardless of the specific circumstances of the individual.”
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