The "Lockdown" Imprisonment: "Waste of Time"

Nice to know that some people pull no punches.

The coronavirus lockdown could have caused more deaths than it saved, a Nobel laureate scientist has claimed. 

Michael Levitt, a Stanford University professor who correctly predicted the initial scale of the pandemic, suggested the decision to keep people indoors was motivated by 'panic' rather than the best science. 

Professor Levitt also said the modelling that caused the government to bring in the lockdown - carried out by Professor Neil Ferguson - over-estimated the death toll by '10 or 12 times'. 

His claims echo those in a JP Morgan report that said lockdowns failed to alter the course of the pandemic but have instead 'destroyed millions of livelihoods'. 

Author Marko Kolanovic, a trained physicist and a strategist for JP Morgan, said governments had been spooked by 'flawed scientific papers' into imposing lockdowns which were 'inefficient or late' and had little effect.

He said falling infection rates since lockdowns were lifted suggest that the virus 'likely has its own dynamics' which are 'unrelated to often inconsistent lockdown measures'. .

Since the Imperial College/IHME numbers were 'first on the market,' and since they predicted a calamity--in a ridiculous overestimation--one cannot blame public officials who reacted the way they did, until we got to Week Three and saw that the Imperial/IHME numbers did not work.

After that, the "wise men" running States (and the Feds) were losing credibility every single day.

In a way, that's a good thing.