Costs of COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia outweighed the benefits multiple times

After weighing the various costs and benefits of the lockdowns imposed on Australian people during the COVID-19 pandemic, two Australian researchers found that financial and human costs incurred due to lockdowns exceeded the benefits 30 to 35 times.The world has still not acknowledged that the human costs of lockdowns are gargantuan relative to the benefits that they could possibly deliver, even in an island nation like Australia, Gigi Foster, a professor at the University of New South Wales’ School of Economics in Australia, said.Before 2020, lockdowns of the healthy population were not part of the pandemic management plan in Australia because they were considered too costly, Foster told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program in a June 9 interview.The standard ap
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