The Campaign Update: New Study by Johns Hopkins Shows Exactly What We've Known All Along about COVID Shutdowns

From our You Don’t Saaaayyyyyyy file: the Washington Times reports on a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University that finds that - guess what? - “lockdowns are not an effective way of reducing mortality during a pandemic, at least not during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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“Overall, we conclude that lockdowns are not an effective way of reducing mortality rates during a pandemic, at least not during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,” they wrote.

washingtontimes.comLockdowns had little or no impact on COVID-19 deaths, new study showsLockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

Hey, what do you think tipped the researchers off? Reckon it was all those dead people in the nursing homes up in New York and Michigan?