Over 60% of business closures from lockdown are now permanent—over 97,000 businesses lost in the U.S. That “leaders†across the world transformed into tyrants, believing they had a right to bankrupt their subjects, is the core evil of lockdown.
Nearly half of black-owned small businesses have been wiped out.
Unemployment in the U.S. reached as high as 14.7% and highways have jammed with thousands of vehicles awaiting their turn at food banks.
Nearly 5% of the population of the U.K. went hungry during the first three weeks of lockdown.
A survey found that 22% of Canadians were experiencing high anxiety levels, a four-fold increase from before the lockdowns, while the number reporting symptoms of depression doubled to 13%.
More than 40 U.S. states have reported increases in opioid-related mortality.
Per CDC, despite mass PCR testing and disproportionate false positives, at least 100,947 excess deaths in 2020 were not even linked to COVID-19 AT ALL.
Though at little risk from the virus itself, young people bore an outsized share of the burden. More than 70% of adults ages 18-23 said they experienced common symptoms of depression.
CDC revealed that young adults aged 25-44 years saw the largest increase in “excess†deaths from previous years, a stunning 26.5% JUMP, despite accounting for FEWER THAN 3% of deaths from COVID-19.
In Ireland, reports of rape and child sex abuse nearly doubled.
Suicides jumped to unprecedented levels around the world. “We've never seen numbers like this in such a short period of time,†said Walnut Creek’s Dr. Mike deBoisblanc. “I mean we've seen a year's worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks.â€
“September of 2020 has been the highest month ever that we've seen suicidal patients admitted to our medical center,†said Kia Carter, M.D., medical director of Psychiatry at Cook Children’s Hospital.
Despite being at virtually no risk from COVID, as a result of lockdowns, children have suffered the most of all. Nearly one in four children living under lockdowns are dealing with anxiety, with many at risk of lasting psychological distress.
In recent surveys of over 6000 children and parents in the US, Germany, Finland, Spain and the UK by Save the Children, up to 65% of the children struggled with boredom and feelings of isolation.