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Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives, Concludes Meta-Analysis

Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives, Concludes Meta-Analysis
Due to the lockdown, restaurants are closed and seats are blocked off in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 30, 2021. Lisa Leutner /AP Photo
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The Covid-19 pandemic measures were a milestone in how modern Western societies restricted freedoms in the face of a new pathogen. It’s fair to say that we panicked in those fateful spring months of 2020. Ever since, the heated conversations, angered populations, lost friendships, and moralistic battles have split societies down the middle.
Joakim Book
Joakim Book
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Joakim Book is a writer and researcher with a deep interest in the history of money and finance. He is an economics graduate of the University of Glasgow and holds an MSc from the University of Oxford.
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