Tue Nov 9, 2021 – 5:48 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — As public health establishments continue to push new vaccines as the solution to the COVID-19 pandemic, one professor is speaking out against the mainstream media’s disinterest in evidence discrediting the previous COVID solution they championed: lockdowns.
Last month, The Epoch Times highlighted the testimony of Simon Fraser University economics professor Douglas Allen, who in April published a study declaring it “possible that the lockdown will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in Canada’s history.” The study, a review of more than 80 research papers on lockdowns across the world, concluded that lockdowns saved 22,333 years’ worth of lost life but caused 6.3 million years of lost life, making the policy’s long-term harm 282 times worse than its benefits.
“There has been no public evidence that either the federal or provincial governments of Canada have considered both the benefit and cost sides of their policy decisions,” Allen said in the study, which found that policymakers’ rosy projections were based in part on flawed assumptions about human behavior. In reality, “[l]ockdown jurisdictions were not able to prevent non-compliance, and non-lockdown jurisdictions benefited from voluntary
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