Microbiologists: Testing shows lockdowns are actually harmful

[rangerrebew]

Microbiologists: Testing shows lockdowns are actually harmful

Doctors say death rate similar to flu, and sheltering at home weakens immunity
WND Staff By WND Staff
Published April 27, 2020 at 8:42pm


Two California physicians with advanced degrees in microbiology contend that their testing of more than 5,200 patients along with public data show the coronavirus is no more deadly than the seasonal flu and that the sheltering-in-place policy in the United States and most of the Western world not only is unnecessary, it's harmful.

Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, California, told reporters their testing and the data worldwide indicate the case fatality rate is less than one-tenth of 1%.

https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/microbiologists-testing-shows-lockdowns-actually-harmful/

[jmyrlefuller]

That's basically the conclusion of what South Korea ended up with: a 0.6% fatality rate, concentrated mainly in the elderly and those with major health problems.

We're finding now in New York City that a lot of the measures they took turned out not to have been all that effective. 1 in 4 New Yorkers have tested positive for antibodies, even with the lockdowns—and that number spikes to 3 in 7 (over 40%) in The Bronx. So it appears that New York's leveling off may not be so much due to the lockdown as it is to increasing herd immunity.

It may have slowed the spread to upstate, but on the whole, was cutting off that much of the economy worth it? I'm not so convinced.