Lockdowns Weakened Aussie Immunity: Mainstream Media Claim! By Brian Simpson
Surprise, surprise, something the Covid heretics have been saying, that lockdowns would weaken immunity, is now to be found in the mainstream media. A slab of text is quoted to give fair context, but here is what I zeroed in on: “But the brutal 'Zero Covid' policy — which it only ditched nearly two years into the pandemic — is thought to have left its population with subpar immunity.
Around 95 per cent of Australians have been double-vaccinated and 70 per cent boosted, but barely anyone had been exposed to the virus until this year.
The draconian lockdown strategy is also thought to have weakened people's immunity to seasonal illnesses, and has been blamed for the current flu outbreak.”
So, a clear case falls from this that the lockdowns were, from an epidemiological perspective, counter-productive. That is not even considering the damage done to people’s livelihoods, and lives. Yet, it could come back, since the authorities have not abandoned their paradigm, but could indeed double up on things.
“Coronavirus hospital rates have reached record highs in Australia as the country grapples with a 'twindemic' of Covid and flu.
There were 5,450 patients in hospital with Covid on Monday, official figures show, eclipsing the previous record of 5,390 during the first Omicron wave in January.
That figure has soared from about 3,000 a month ago, amid the spread of the highly infectious but equally mild BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants.
Australia was hailed as a Covid success story early in the pandemic when it managed to keep cases at virtually zero by turning itself into a hermit state with repeated lockdowns and border closures.
But the brutal 'Zero Covid' policy — which it only ditched nearly two years into the pandemic — is thought to have left its population with subpar immunity.
Around 95 per cent of Australians have been double-vaccinated and 70 per cent boosted, but barely anyone had been exposed to the virus until this year.
The draconian lockdown strategy is also thought to have weakened people's immunity to seasonal illnesses, and has been blamed for the current flu outbreak.
Australia's flu season, which typically runs from June to September, started unusually early this year and caused infections to spike up to 10 times higher than the pre-pandemic level in some weeks.
The new Labor Government has resisted calls for social restrictions to be reintroduced but has recommended people wear masks indoors and businesses allow employees to work from home if they can.”
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