Former Trump W.H. COVID Adviser: Lockdowns Selectively Destroyed Low-Income People and Minorities

ATLAS: "Source and that massive destruction this is 10-15 years before the pandemic literature already said that lockdowns were not to be used if they don’t work in extremely destructive so this is even more shocking says use all the data that comes in shows of the lockdowns did not stop the spread of the infection, did not save lives and in fact a lot of states that did open did better matter what you hear in the states that had severe closures but what’s worse is the economic downturn which was vilified about how it’s distorted by the media and others as somehow reducing the economy over lives if you don’t lockdown and it’s the opposite because for decades it was known in the economic literature that severe economic downturns kill people and that’s exactly what was seen by throwing people into severe poverty. The United States alone about 200,000 small businesses are closed many of those jobs are lower income jobs and affect the low income people selectively were destroyed by the lockdowns that were really what I call a luxury of the rich if you get the unemployment data alone we see that the unemployment’s for low income jobs some like 23, 20% whereas for high income jobs it’s about zero, may be percent. Obviously young people were destroyed because a lot of shut down were jobs for young people. Another third of extras that we did by committing harm to our younger people in the world for our country that supposed to care about poor people more than a hundred million people in the world were thrown to abject poverty from the lockdowns particularly the lob sounds of the left which interrupted the whole job cycle and so these people were talking about a dollar $0.90 per day. More than a hundred many people now abject poverty there’s an explosion of what was loaned already to aspen which is massive and drug abuse, massive surge and domestic violence against women. At the highest rate in more than 25 years according to the U.N. There is significant increase in teenage harms, teenagers in the United States explosion of suicide attempts against teenage girls. Tripling of self-harm, this is partially due to the economic deprivation of these families, these low income families. By the way not of closing schools are harmful but severe economic downturn is generally affecting the educational efforts of low income families. Poor kids, low income kids are less likely to go to school when their family needs them to work. The money, this is common sense and summing that was missing completely again historic public health errors. With the unemployment was deeper and more prolonged in the low income jobs by the way, more prolonged and worse according to all from Harvard that the educational disparities are now much worse porter kids are further behind. An explosion or lack of ability in the world to have even 10-year-olds read a simple sentence. At the highest rate in decades and the last point I want to make is the compilation of the data even more recently that you suggested by casey mulligan at the university of Chicago and others is that he bank the state and the success to the pandemic and correlated that conifer deaths from covert educational arms and employment harms guess what happened for states that did not close the businesses are reopened very early in much better. At South Dakota didn’t close any businesses and they ranked fifth best. Florida was six the best, where the bottom five are the states that did the severe lockdowns enclosures and who are they? New York, California, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Pennsylvania, thus the 47-51. The worst in the country. The sky epic economic downturn killed people and it destroyed collectively low income people and minorities."