Canadian medical expert Dr. Ari Joffe initially supported lockdowns as a method to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but after doing a cost-benefit analysis on the government-mandated restrictions he concluded that they are not justifiable.
Joffe estimates that the harms caused by lockdown measures are at least five to 10 times greater than the benefits, as a population plagued by economic downturn, unemployment and loneliness is at risk of early mortality, reduced lifespan and chronic disease.
Read Here: Rethinking Lockdowns - A cost benefit analysis by Dr. Ari Joffe
Dr. Ari Joffe is a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Alberta. He has written a paper titled COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink that finds the harms of lockdowns are 10 times greater than their benefits.
