Lock Down Will Cause Thousands of Additional Deaths in NZ
The unintended consequences of even a short lock down will be thousands of additional deaths in New Zealand over the short, medium and long term. The data is already there. So why is Ardern drawing it out? When the government compelled New Zealand into lock down on March 24 th most New Zealanders, desperate for any kind of decisive action, were relieved. Whether you believe the government’s decision to lock down the country was justified (I argue here and here it was not) the unintended consequences of even a short lock down, in terms of deaths, illness and economic damage are piling up at a truly frightening rate. First, there is strong evidence accumulating overseas that lock downs have caused an immediate, dramatic spike in deaths, not from Covid19 but from other causes such as suicide and delayed emergency admissions. In the UK a report based on NHS data found that there are an additional 2,000 deaths per week caused by the Covid-19 lock down rather than the...
