> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # It Was the Lockdowns That Did It - URL: https://goodoil.news/it-was-the-lockdowns-that-did-it/ - Published: 2022-06-28T00:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2022-06-27T07:38:22.000Z - Author: Guest Post - Tags: NZ, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04 **Michael Senger** [brownstone.org](https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-harms-impossible-to-cover-up/?ref=goodoil.news) *Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020 and previously authored China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign and The Masked Ball of Cowardice in Tablet Magazine.* --- According to a recent study by the World Bank, [published in the journal Nature](https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-01647-6/index.html?ref=goodoil.news), lockdowns and the response to Covid-19 have pushed an additional 75 million people into extreme poverty, living on less than US $1.90 a day. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-57e02e89-a8e0-461a-970b-5c7613160468_1321x767.png) Image Credit: [brownstone.org](https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-harms-impossible-to-cover-up/?ref=goodoil.news) In the typical Walter Duranty style that’s become a kind of twisted journalistic norm since March 2020, the World Bank and Nature of course blame this on “the pandemic” rather than lockdowns. I remain baffled as to how seemingly well-meaning people are able to sleep at night repeating such nonsense—are they somehow blind to the role of [their own sycophancy](https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/covid-19-and-the-will-to-power) in perpetuating these policies? Nonetheless, there are signs that the political mainstream is starting to realize lockdowns were a disaster. Today, the Wall Street Journal published an excellent piece titled [The Revenge of the Locked-Down Voters](https://www.wsj.com/articles/lockdowns-voters-biden-2022-2024-republicans-approval-ratings-airlines-business-unemployment-pandemic-election-11655925711?ref=goodoil.news), noting the growing political backlash against lockdown politicians from voters at the lower end of the income scale. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-0870a20f-3b39-42f7-b8f0-5a4a0191033a_770x246.png) Image Credit: [brownstone.org](https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-harms-impossible-to-cover-up/?ref=goodoil.news) This comes shortly after the New York Times [quietly acknowledged a study](https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/lockdowns-killed-over-170000-americans) showing that Covid lockdowns and mandates led to over 170,000 excess deaths among young Americans. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-67e26a92-2646-44d7-a9ca-7a7970f61df0_491x153.png) Image Credit: [brownstone.org](https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-harms-impossible-to-cover-up/?ref=goodoil.news) Likewise, today the Daily Telegraph, the UK’s centre-right newspaper of record, published an excellent piece titled [Basket-case Britain is the definitive proof lockdown was an epic mistake](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/22/basket-case-britain-definitive-proof-lockdown-epic-mistake/?ref=goodoil.news). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-3b711677-62fc-4bff-8947-cdef4758145d_894x276.png) Image Credit: [brownstone.org](https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-harms-impossible-to-cover-up/?ref=goodoil.news) And, as in America, this comes shortly after the London Times, the UK’s centre-left newspaper of record, [published a cautiously-introspective piece](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-totally-backed-the-lockdown-and-quite-enjoyed-it-but-was-i-just-a-mug-03nhzbqnq?ref=goodoil.news) on its support for lockdowns. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-02865f94-d895-4d66-98b4-f13b291907a0_999x572.png) Image Credit: [brownstone.org](https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-harms-impossible-to-cover-up/?ref=goodoil.news) These are promising indications that the political mainstream, especially on the right, is coming around to the fact that lockdowns were a policy catastrophe more quickly than some might have worried. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-e16a6c4f-9e7c-49d0-ab0d-f73d91465e4f_3797x1305.png) Image Credit: [brownstone.org](https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-harms-impossible-to-cover-up/?ref=goodoil.news) Still, there’s much more to be done. Currently, the mainstream left and right is starting to realize lockdowns were a big mistake, while many career bureaucrats are still stuck pretending lockdowns were the greatest medical breakthrough since penicillin. There really needs to be a bipartisan consensus that lockdowns were an unprecedented policy catastrophe before we can start to see justice and have undue foreign and financial influence taken seriously. [If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.](#) [If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our Membership options.](https://thebfd.co.nz/subscription-plans/?ref=2)