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Don't miss out on something extraordinary! | | These Experts Advocated for Lockdowns; Now They Say They Were Wrong | Very few experts who now say they were wrong on lockdowns and mandates have publicly apologized. We spoke to two who did. | (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images) | As the dust settles from the COVID-19 pandemic and the fallout over lockdown policies becomes more pronounced, some lockdown proponents, like New York University Professor Scott Galloway, have admitted they were wrong for supporting lockdowns. "I was on the board of my kid's school during COVID. I wanted a harsher lockdown policy. In retrospect, I was wrong," Mr. Galloway told Bill Maher. "The damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer was greater than the risk. But here's the bottom line, myself, our great people at the CDC, I'd like to think the governor, we were all operating with imperfect information, and we were doing our best." he said, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "Let's learn from it. Let's hold each other accountable, but let's bring a little bit of grace and forgiveness," he said. Mr. Galloway isn't the only one to admit he was wrong for supporting lockdowns, especially for children. However, some others aren't as quick to blame "imperfect information," and plead for forgiveness. Dr. Ari Joffe, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Alberta, Canada, and an attending physician in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, initially supported lockdowns. So did Kevin Bass, a seventh-year medical student and researcher at a Texas medical school. Both now say they were wrong because of "groupthink" and "fear-mongering," rather than imperfect information. And both push back against Mr. Galloway's notion that the powers that be were "doing [their] best." | A racoon walks in an almost-deserted Central Park in Manhattan in New York City on April 16, 2020. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images) | Fear and Lockdowns On March 16, 2020, the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team published modeling that showed without lockdowns enforced for more than two-thirds of the time over two years, "there would be 510,000 deaths in Great Britain and 2.2 million deaths in the United States by mid-April, surpassing ICU demand by 30 times," Dr. Joffe reported in his peer-reviewed paper, "COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink." The Imperial College estimated that there would be "7.0 billion infections and 40 million deaths" globally in the first year. The result from that modeling was widespread fear, Dr. Joffe said, of which he was not immune. Consequently, he fully supported government-imposed lockdown measures at the beginning of the pandemic because he believed "lockdowns would reduce viral transmission and deaths, as famously, inaccurately, and tautologically modeled at Imperial College," Dr. Joffe told The Epoch Times. Read Full Story >> | Subscribe to The Epoch Times to read the rest. Become a paying subscriber of The Epoch Times to get access to
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