From the Tom Woods
Letter:
The side effects of the lockdowns keep getting harder to ignore.
Dr. Brian Stauffer
is head of cardiology at Denver Health. He and his colleagues wanted to
figure out why the number of people arriving at the hospital suffering from
cardiac arrest had plummeted in recent months.
Surely, dear reader, you know
where this is going.
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According
to the Colorado Sun:
Looking
at data on ambulance calls in Denver, they found that, while overall calls for
service went down during the stay-at-home period, the number of people dying
from cardiac arrests at home shot up.
Stauffer’s
team found that cardiac arrests at home in Denver more than doubled in the two
weeks after the statewide stay-at-home order was issued compared with
historical averages. Even compared with more recent data, the weekly average of
out-of-hospital cardiac arrests jumped to 46 during those two weeks, versus 26
or 27 in the three months prior.
Stauffer
and his colleagues found that the number of people in Denver who died of
cardiac arrests at home in the two weeks following the statewide stay-at-home
order was greater than the total number of people who died of COVID-19 in the
city during that time.
Oh, but “listen to the
science,” everybody!
According to the “listen to the
science” crowd, “science” demands lockdowns. Apart from the zero
connection between lockdowns and health outcomes, the bigger issue is this:
“science” doesn’t tell you how you should decide between pouring all resources
into COVID-19 while leaving horrific wreckage — including massive loss of life
— everywhere else.
It is
rank superstition to think “the science” could possibly — or is even intended
to — answer a question like this.
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Science can inform our decision-making, naturally, but it obviously
can’t tell us what we should value or how we should prioritize our various
goals.
Not to mention: these days “the science” seems to be all about
pretending there are no trade-offs, no competing goals.
Yesterday I wrote to you about the schools, and the day before that
about the massive spike in suicidal ideation among the youth.
The wreckage keeps piling up, and our leaders obviously have no idea
what the endgame is.
What else can we do after all this fact-free nonsense except live,
and ignore these people as much as we can?
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