It seems that many people, or at least a sizeable number, are dying in lockdown:
https://summit.news/2020/05/11/thousands-of-people-are-dying-at-home-due-to-the-lockdown/
“A Guardian analysis has found that there have been thousands of excess deaths of people at home in the UK due to the lockdown. “The data shows 8,196 more deaths at home in England, Wales and Scotland compared with the five-year average for this time of year, including 6,546 non-Covid deaths,” reports the newspaper. “It also indicates a drop in non-Covid deaths in hospital, however, leading experts to conclude that many who would ordinarily have been admitted to a ward and died there are instead dying at home.” According to Jason Oke, a statistician with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, one explanation for the numbers is that, “People are dying of other causes that would not have happened under normal conditions – and are collateral damage of the lockdown.” Another analysis suggests there could have already been around 10,000 excess deaths in the UK compared with previous years.”
So why do they want eternal lockdowns?
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/why-does-mainstream-media-seem-so-desperate-keep-covid-19-lockdowns-going
“Initially, we were told that the goal of the lockdowns was to keep our healthcare systems from being overwhelmed, and we should stick to that. Unfortunately, the mainstream media just won’t turn the hype machine off, and they seem willing to twist facts if that is what is necessary. Just look at what NBC News is reporting. According to an article that they just posted, “infection rates are spiking to new highs” in many areas of the nation… Coronavirus infection rates are spiking to new highs in several metropolitan areas and smaller communities across the country, according to undisclosed data the White House’s pandemic task force is using to track rates of infection, which was obtained by NBC News. The data contained in a May 7 coronavirus task force report are at odds with the president’s declaration Monday, May 11, 2020, that “all throughout the country, the numbers are coming down rapidly.” No, infection rates are not spiking. Just go to worldometers.info and check for yourself. Yes, the numbers are still high, but they are a lot lower than they were. So it appears that President Trump is correct in this case and NBC News is wrong. So why is the mainstream media doing this? Could it be possible that they are trying to hurt President Trump politically? Without a doubt, Trump’s poll numbers have suffered during the lockdowns, and if the U.S. economy does not bounce back by November it is certainly going to be tough for him to win. And at this point the mainstream media is not even trying to hide how much they hate Trump. For many of them, getting rid of Trump is priority number one, and they will exploit any angle that they can to try to make that happen. But political considerations should not be governing how we approach this crisis.
Sadly, most Americans don’t even realize that if we would have just used basic common sense that we would have never needed lockdowns in the first place. According to a new study that was just released, none of the lockdowns would have been necessary if at least 80 percent of Americans were willing to wear masks… For nearly three months, we’ve been urging people to wear masks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, a new study and online simulation tool shows that America could end the lockdowns and beat the coronavirus in a matter of weeks if just 80% of people wore masks in public. Yes, it’s that simple: Wear a mask and you beat the virus. Of course, at the beginning of this crisis the CDC specifically instructed the American people not to wear masks, and it took them weeks to finally reverse course. But other nations that used basic common sense have fared so much better than us. The following comes from Vanity Fair… The day before yesterday, 21 people died of COVID-19 in Japan. In the United States, 2,129 died. Comparing overall death rates for the two countries offers an even starker point of comparison with total U.S. deaths now at a staggering 76,032 and Japan’s fatalities at 577. Japan’s population is about 38% of the U.S., but even adjusting for population, the Japanese death rate is a mere 2% of America’s.
This comes despite Japan having no lockdown, still-active subways, and many businesses that have remained open—reportedly including karaoke bars, although Japanese citizens and industries are practicing social distancing where they can. Nor have the Japanese broadly embraced contact tracing, a practice by which health authorities identify someone who has been infected and then attempt to identify everyone that person might have interacted with—and potentially infected. So how does Japan do it? It is actually very simple how the Japanese were able to accomplish this. Virtually everyone in the entire country is wearing a mask when they go out in public. Yes, it is just that simple. In addition, a number of studies have found that mortality rates are much, much lower for those that have a sufficient level of Vitamin D in their systems. Natural News just posted an article about one of these studies… It was when the researchers closely looked at data from patients hailing from countries with high Covid-19 mortality rates, namely Italy, Spain and the UK, that they observed a common denominator: they had generally lower levels of vitamin D compared to patients from countries that had significantly lower mortality rates. In addition, after further examination of the patients’ data, the researchers found a link between low vitamin D levels and “cytokine storms,” a hyper-inflammatory condition caused by an overactive immune system. Ultimately, we could have avoided so much pain and suffering if everyone had just been willing to wear masks and if everyone had been taking plenty of Vitamin D. But instead of focusing on these basic common sense solutions, the mainstream media continues to push the fear button, and now Congress is considering a bill which would spend 100 billion dollars “to create an army of contact tracers”…”
I certainly think that there is merit in the hypothesis that the mainstream media is quite happy to see the economy destroyed so long as Trump, a symbol of anti-globalism, and only just a symbol, because he has done nothing, is defeated in disgrace. That is how evil and depraved they are.