To lockdown a nation to prevent the spread of an infectious disease is a medical intervention never tried in the history of the world before 2020 and then almost immediately employed throughout most of the world. This observation alone is worth in depth consideration. Here I will make the case that, considered as a medical intervention, lockdowns are immoral, illegal and ineffective.
Immoral
The immorality of the lockdowns is evident from many perspectives (such as the non-aggression principle of libertarians). Here I will focus on the Ten Points of the Nuremberg Code for medical ethics developed in the wake of Nazi crimes during WWII. This list is in terms of a medical experiment, but as implied above we are all guinea pigs now.
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1. The
voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
2. The
experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society,
unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary
in nature.
3. The
experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal
experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other
problem under study that the anticipated results will justify the performance
of the experiment.
4. The
experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and
mental suffering and injury.
5. No
experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling
injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental
physicians also serve as subjects.
6. The
degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the
humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.
7. Proper
preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the
experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability,
or death.
8. The
experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The
highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the
experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment.
9. During
the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring
the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where
continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.
10.
During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must
be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause
to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill and careful
judgment required of him that a continuation of the experiment is likely to
result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.
Clearly, the most obvious and important violation of lockdowns is of point 1 and the related point 9. Lockdowns are applied without consent and nobody is allowed to opt out. Point 2 is also violated. More fruitful approaches are available as explained in the Great Barrington Declaration. Point 3 is not directly applicable, but does highlight the fact that our rulers are flying blind with no animal or human pilot results to guide them (more on this below). The repugnant nature in which the lockdowns have been applied often are aimed to create physical and mental suffering and injury (for example, fear is always induced) violating point 4. Point 6 is also important to emphasize. What is the real importance of this problem. To me the fabrications and frauds of the Covid story were evident in the WHO declaration of the pandemic in March. The comparison of the infection fatality rate between Chinese hospitalized patients for Covid and the general population for flu was pure fraud. It is clear from this UK radio interview that the epidemiologists who have concocted this intervention have not done anything to quantify the negative effects violating point 7.
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Illegal
I am
not a lawyer so I will rely on Lord
Sumption’s (the former supreme court justice) dissection of government
illegality in the UK as a model of how governments have been
acting. Furthermore, it does not take a lawyer or health professional to
note the violations of the Bill of Rights in the US.
Herein
I will emphasize the more focused legal norms of the medical community. The
fundamental basis of regulatory affairs is to assure, based on evidence
from in vitro, ex vivo, in vivo preclinical and clinical testing that all
medical interventions (pharmaceuticals, devices, procedures) are both effective
and safe. The gold standard of evidence is the controlled, randomized clinical
trial (CRCT). Furthermore, this testing should be assessed for all groups
affected; men and women, different age groups, different race and ethnic
groups. The lack of CRCTs for other Covid related interventions has been the
common critique of the medical community against, for example,
hydroxychloroquine. My key point is that no CRCT has been performed to
assess the efficacy or safety of national lockdowns. The fact that
such a trial is even difficult to imagine makes the case stronger not to apply
this blunt instrument.
The
fact that CRCTs are often severely compromised is
not relevant to my argument here.
Ineffective
I noted above that there is no CRCT to
prove the effectiveness of national lockdowns. Nonetheless, we do have data on
the experience of the different countries (and US states) that have employed
lockdowns, with the important case of Sweden as a control. Getting all of the
data (which is always suspect today) into a form for easy comparison is an
enormous task that government officials refuse to perform. Tom
Woods has been collecting graphs from internet sources that
should be required viewing by all citizens for their own wellbeing. I reproduce
one of those graphs here that alone makes a devastating case for ending all
national lockdowns.Not only did lockdowns not reduce the first wave in Europe,
they have set us up for the second wave.
I am sure most readers will have already noted that a similar analysis can be applied to other Covid responses such as mask mandates and vaccinations.
Ira Katz [send him mail] lives in Paris and works as a
research engineer for a French company. He is the co-author of Handling Mr. Hyde: Questions and Answers about Manic
Depression and Introduction to Fluid Mechanics.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/11/ira-katz/lockdowns-immoral-illegal-and-ineffective/
