“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.”  Proverbs 18:2 (ESV).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

Professors Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung and Steve Hanke have just published a new study for The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics that provided a systematic review and meta-analysis as to whether there is empirical evidence to support the belief that “lockdowns” reduce COVID-19 mortality.

They concluded,

… lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, [but] they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.

If lockdowns don’t and didn’t save lives why did we do them?