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Decision to lockdown caused 282 times the loss of years of life says Economics professor

During the Lockdown, Dun Laoghaire, 22 April 2020 Photo Credit: Nerosunero on Flickr under CCLicence
Lockdowns are conferring little benefit, but causing colossal damage, a Economics professor has concluded, using a cost benefit analysis to calculate that strict Covid restrictions caused 282 times the loss of years of life, that it saved.  Economics Professor Douglas W. Allen, from Simon Fraser University in Canada looked at the effect of loss of employment, loss […]

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