Since the conclusion of the Covid lockdowns, there have been many studies showing that these draconian restrictions of freedom did nothing to stop the spread of Covid-19, although these studies are typically ignored by our health authorities, who are still holding the line that everything they said and did as correct, such as the vaccines prevented transmission.
In this context it is interesting to see the mainstream media starting to catch up. A recent article at the New York Mag.com makes the case that the lockdowns were a giant experiment, that, as was most dramatically seen in communist China, failed. With no substantial scientific evidence, most of the West, with the exception of some places such as Sweden, followed the communist Chinese line, one endorsed by the equally communist World Health Organization. The results all-round were a disaster for individuals and small business, ranging from suicides, learning defects in small children, to bankruptcies of small businesses.