Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 2: Update and Examination of Lockdowns as a Strategy

by Alex Berenson

The epidemic was fading across most of the world. European countries had reopened without problems. In the United States, southern states had begun to reopen more than a month earlier – Georgia on April 24, Texas not long after – without much trouble. Even in the Northeast, the hardest-hit region, states were edging towards partial reopenings. Hospitals were closing COVID-specific units and instead getting back into the business of elective surgeries and other ordinary health care. Newspapers and cable networks were reduced to hyping case counts in countries like Peru, or writing speculative articles about potential post-infection syndromes. The most troubling example came in May, as reporters focused on a disease in children that looked very much like Kawasaki disease, which can lead to serious heart problems in kids. The New York Times led the way, writing more than a dozen articles in May. Its headlines quickly moved from claiming the illness might be “related to” coronavirus to calling it a “baffling virus syndrome.”