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[00:00.000 --> 00:07.360]  A 2022 study released by the Johns Hopkins Institute concludes, as the Washington Examiner
[00:07.360 --> 00:16.160]  stated in its headline, quote, lockdowns had little or no impact on COVID-19 deaths.
[00:16.160 --> 00:23.520]  Let's see what John Hopkins has to say.
[00:23.520 --> 00:34.880]  The Dr. Reality Vodcast with Dave Champion.
[00:34.880 --> 00:39.920]  If you'd like to read the Washington Examiner article or the Johns Hopkins Institute study
[00:39.920 --> 00:43.000]  report, I'll put the links to both down in the notes.
[00:43.000 --> 00:49.440]  I've long described lockdowns in the following manner when it comes to things like a virus.
[00:49.440 --> 00:52.600]  Imagine you're watching a television show.
[00:52.600 --> 00:58.440]  The show is going along, and for whatever reason, you want to interrupt that show.
[00:58.440 --> 01:03.040]  So you pick up the remote and you push the pause button, and then you go do whatever
[01:03.040 --> 01:04.040]  you want to do.
[01:04.040 --> 01:06.440]  And then you come back and you sit down on the couch and you pick up the remote and you
[01:06.440 --> 01:09.480]  hit the play button.
[01:09.480 --> 01:10.480]  How did that change?
[01:10.480 --> 01:12.820]  Well, let's say the show you're watching is a mystery.
[01:12.820 --> 01:17.920]  How is that going to change the outcome, who the characters are, what they engage in, what
[01:17.920 --> 01:19.580]  the conclusions are?
[01:19.580 --> 01:20.580]  It doesn't change anything.
[01:20.580 --> 01:23.200]  It picks up right where you hit the pause button.
[01:23.200 --> 01:27.280]  And I have often described lockdowns as exactly that.
[01:27.280 --> 01:28.920]  The virus is doing what it does.
[01:28.920 --> 01:30.640]  So boom, lockdown.
[01:30.640 --> 01:32.960]  You radically change human behavior.
[01:32.960 --> 01:39.080]  And so there is a suppression of the normal human behavior and thus a suppression of the
[01:39.080 --> 01:45.880]  spreading of the virus until you hit the play button, which is analogous to lifting the
[01:45.880 --> 01:46.880]  lockdown.
[01:46.880 --> 01:50.960]  Now, in reality, it's not so much hitting a pause button when they do a lockdown.
[01:50.960 --> 01:56.080]  It's more like if your remote control had an ultra slow motion button, because the spread
[01:56.080 --> 01:58.040]  of the virus isn't going to be stopped.
[01:58.040 --> 02:04.280]  It's just going to slow down considerably when you radically alter human behavior by
[02:04.280 --> 02:05.280]  force.
[02:05.280 --> 02:08.440]  And then when the force is removed and people more or less go back to their normal routines,
[02:08.440 --> 02:14.180]  then the virus picks up just where it was going when the lockdowns began.
[02:14.180 --> 02:18.460]  As I'm known for saying, government can't stop a virus.
[02:18.460 --> 02:23.180]  But let's see what Johns Hopkins has to say in its study report.
[02:23.180 --> 02:29.580]  Overall, we conclude that lockdowns are not an effective way of reducing mortality rates
[02:29.580 --> 02:31.620]  during a pandemic.
[02:31.620 --> 02:38.540]  Our results are in line with the World Health Organization writing group circa 2006, who
[02:39.540 --> 02:47.300]  quote, reports from the 1918 influenza pandemic indicate that social distancing measures did
[02:47.300 --> 02:51.900]  not stop or appear to dramatically reduce transmission.
[02:51.900 --> 02:56.460]  In Edmonton, Canada, isolation and quarantine were instituted.
[02:56.460 --> 03:02.620]  Public meetings were banned, schools, churches, colleges, theaters and other public gatherings
[03:02.620 --> 03:09.900]  were closed and business hours were restricted without obvious impact on the epidemic.
[03:09.900 --> 03:16.060]  Our findings are also in line with Alan's conclusion, quote, the most recent research
[03:16.060 --> 03:23.060]  has shown that lockdowns have had at best a marginal effect on the number of COVID-19
[03:23.060 --> 03:24.060]  deaths.
[03:24.060 --> 03:25.060]  Close quote.
[03:25.060 --> 03:30.940]  For a long time, I've been critical of the computer modeling projections coming out of
[03:30.940 --> 03:35.620]  Imperial College London, and most specifically, I've been critical of Neil Ferguson, who
[03:35.620 --> 03:38.720]  runs their computer modeling projection project.
[03:38.720 --> 03:43.020]  In the Johns Hopkins study report, here's what they had to say, quote, an often cited
[03:43.020 --> 03:49.580]  model simulation study by researchers at the Imperial College London suppression strategy
[03:49.580 --> 03:56.580]  based on lockdown would reduce COVID-19 mortality by up to 98%.
[03:56.580 --> 04:01.380]  These predictions were questioned by many scholars.
[04:01.380 --> 04:02.380]  Close quote.
[04:02.380 --> 04:10.540]  I did a video presentation back in, I think it was 2020, in which I exposed the abysmal
[04:10.540 --> 04:15.540]  record of Neil Ferguson and Imperial College London in its computer model projections,
[04:15.540 --> 04:21.440]  and I show how astoundingly inaccurate they have been, and I'll put the link to that video
[04:21.440 --> 04:22.900]  down in the notes.
[04:22.900 --> 04:30.340]  Now we have Johns Hopkins saying, quote, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe
[04:30.340 --> 04:40.160]  and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.
[04:40.160 --> 04:41.160]  Close quote.
[04:41.160 --> 04:50.580]  So, Ferguson predicted a reduction in COVID-19 deaths up to 98%, and Johns Hopkins' retrospective
[04:50.580 --> 04:58.400]  analysis shows that the actual number was two tenths of 1%, which completely fits with
[04:58.400 --> 05:02.180]  how inaccurate Neil Ferguson's work has been over the years.
[05:02.180 --> 05:08.620]  The study's abstract portion concludes with these words, quote, while this meta-analysis
[05:08.620 --> 05:14.680]  concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed
[05:14.680 --> 05:20.340]  enormous economic and social costs when they have been adopted.
[05:20.340 --> 05:29.020]  In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy
[05:29.020 --> 05:31.380]  instrument.
[05:31.380 --> 05:32.580]  Close quote.
[05:32.580 --> 05:38.340]  In the study's policy implications section, Johns Hopkins writes, quote, in the early
[05:38.340 --> 05:43.100]  stages of a pandemic, before the arrival of vaccines and new treatments, a society can
[05:43.100 --> 05:51.820]  respond in two ways, mandated behavioral changes or voluntary behavioral changes.
[05:51.820 --> 05:58.020]  Our study fails to demonstrate significant positive effects of mandated behavioral changes,
[05:58.020 --> 06:01.340]  parentheses, lockdowns, close parentheses.
[06:01.340 --> 06:05.860]  This should draw our focus to the role of voluntary behavioral changes.
[06:05.860 --> 06:12.740]  Here, more research is needed to determine how voluntary behavioral changes can be supported.
[06:12.740 --> 06:18.300]  But it should be clear that one important role for government authorities is to provide
[06:18.300 --> 06:23.780]  information so that citizens can voluntarily respond to the pandemic in a way that mitigates
[06:23.780 --> 06:25.460]  their exposure.
[06:25.460 --> 06:31.820]  Finally, allow us to broaden our perspective after presenting our meta-analysis that focuses
[06:31.820 --> 06:34.260]  on the following question.
[06:34.260 --> 06:39.300]  What does the evidence tell us about the effects of lockdowns on mortality?
[06:39.380 --> 06:45.860]  To provide a firm answer to this question, the evidence fails to confirm that lockdowns
[06:45.860 --> 06:50.540]  have a significant effect on reducing COVID-19 mortality.
[06:50.540 --> 06:54.380]  The effect is little to none.
[06:54.380 --> 06:58.900]  The use of lockdowns is a unique feature of the COVID-19 pandemic.
[06:58.900 --> 07:03.020]  Lockdowns have not been used to such a large extent during any of the pandemics of the
[07:03.020 --> 07:04.660]  past century.
[07:04.660 --> 07:11.140]  However, lockdowns during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have had devastating
[07:11.140 --> 07:12.340]  effects.
[07:12.340 --> 07:17.540]  They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling,
[07:17.540 --> 07:22.860]  and causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal
[07:22.860 --> 07:24.660]  democracy.
[07:24.660 --> 07:31.580]  These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis
[07:31.900 --> 07:35.140]  has shown are marginal at best.
[07:35.140 --> 07:43.140]  Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion, colon, lockdowns should
[07:43.140 --> 07:52.500]  be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument, close quote.
[07:52.500 --> 07:55.840]  Presenters like me, who've said the kind of things that I've been sharing with you
[07:55.840 --> 08:01.880]  for the last two years, have often been condemned and personally insulted for sharing with
[08:01.880 --> 08:06.760]  you the kinds of facts, data, and evidence that I have over the last 24 months.
[08:06.760 --> 08:13.320]  However, in late 2021 and early 2022, much of what I've been telling you over the last
[08:13.320 --> 08:20.040]  22 months is now being verified by scholarly research such as this Johns Hopkins Institute
[08:20.040 --> 08:21.600]  study report.
[08:21.600 --> 08:29.240]  In short, I and others like me have been, on the whole, right all along.
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[09:06.280 --> 09:10.560]  With all our science and all our technology, because they've lied to you and the vast majority
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