![]() ![]() Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, and Immunizations.Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Impacts.Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation.Defense Industry, Acquisition, and Innovation.Intelligence, Surveillance, and Privacy.I may have to send copies to the Mounds View School Board, Superintendent and Principals. The chapters are short and digestible, so you can also just go right to the topics in which you're interested. The guy is an Immunologist, Bio-Chemist, and Attorney. He takes you through the calculations step by step and footnotes sources well. McTavish has a host of revealing graphs and a useful illustration that really captures the "Trolley Dilemma" theme of the book (see photo). The stats he uses often come from the CDC, so if you have a problem w/ that, then this may not be your book. This should be required reading for Philosophy 101 students and anyone who may be experiencing the "fall out" of those lockdowns. Does it mean we shouldn't have locked down? McTavish shows us how lacking the philosophical discussion was amidst the hype and hysteria when it came to quantifying the other side of the balance sheet vs "COVID deaths averted" -education, unemployment, depression, suicide. 350 kids had their schooling and social development upended for every 1 COVID death averted. 127 people suffering unemployment per 1 COVID death averted. This book bridges the gap between the numbers and the sophomoric analysis we've come to expect from our media outlets. Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2021 Was the "Greater Good" served during lockdowns: Classic Trolley Dilemma McTavish pulls no punches in damning the influencers who made these decisions in the name of public interest or promoted the lockdowns while omitting facts that could have altered the lockdown approach to Covid: "We should ask, and our leaders and experts should have asked also and told us, how many COVID deaths would be prevented by the lockdowns, and now that we are a year into this, how many COVID deaths the lockdowns have prevented."- Midwest Review of Books About the Author Supporters of the lockdowns will be forced to question their position if they read this book with an open mind, and opponents will be armed with the data and evidence to justify their position. A well-honed challenge to the conventional wisdom on the war against Covid-19." - Kirkus Reviews "Should be on the reading lists of sociology and political science students, as well as the general-interest, thinking reader. ![]() Assisted by illuminating graphs and charts, his prose is precise, lucid, and accessible to laypeople, and he has a knack for framing statistical risks in language that's pithy and forthright.("Would you be willing to make these sacrifices, to live the way we have livedfor over one year, to add 0.9 days to your life?" he asks, capturing the virus's negligible impact on the average citizen's prospects of dying.) America's legions of lockdown skeptics will find here a cogent summing up of the case against it. McTavish shapes a wealth of scientific information into a clear picture. He concludes that lockdowns probably saved no lives while causing harms-social isolation, depression, drug overdoses, unemployment, and deaths of despair-whose effects on mortality and quality of life outweighed anåovid-19 deaths the restrictions averted.Moreover, he argues, anti-virus measures have infringed on citizens' civil liberties-he supports vaccines but rejects vaccine mandates-and unfairly privileged the interests of older and sick people who are at risk from the virus at the cost of blighting the lives of the young. correlated poorly with Covid-19mortality. Hugh McTavish's COVID Lockdown Insanity is a solid and well-documented exploration of one of the most serious public policy failures of our time." - John Michael Greer, author of The Long Descent and The Wealth of Nature "McTavish draws on many strands of evidence and reasoning to argue that strict pandemic measures. McTavish has been a rare voice of rationality during the epidemic, providing important data and policy evaluations to assist the public in avoiding fear and understanding the balance of harms and benefits from efforts to suppress COVID." - Kevin Roche, "There are sane, compassionate, and effective ways to deal with a pandemic, but the US reaction to the coronavirus epidemic of 2020 was none of these things. A work of great human insight." - Horst Loeblich, Board Chair COVID Sanity "Mr. "Hugh McTavish methodically hacks his way beyond the ideologies that lead to disastrous policy decisions, steadfastly guided by scientific evidence as well as what it means to be human. ![]()
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