> ## 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. # Who Pushed for Lockdowns? 101 Leading Voices - URL: https://goodoil.news/who-pushed-for-lockdowns-101-leading-voices/ - Published: 2022-04-19T04:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2022-04-18T08:47:57.000Z - Author: Guest Post - Tags: COVID-19, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12 **Michael Senger** [brownstone.org](https://brownstone.org/articles/who-pushed-for-lockdowns-101-leading-voices/?ref=goodoil.news) *Michael P Senger is an attorney based in the United States. 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.* --- In Shanghai, China, millions of residents have been [locked in their homes](https://dossier.substack.com/p/a-full-embrace-of-public-health-the) for weeks. Those who test positive for Covid are taken to detention camps and their pets are killed. Many face starvation, and there have been countless suicides. Despite all this—as is the case in every country that implemented them—these inhuman policies have [failed to stop](https://weartv.com/news/local/study-from-johns-hopkins-univ-finds-lockdowns-had-little-to-no-effect-on-covid-mortality-02-13-2022?ref=goodoil.news) the virus. This gruesome spectacle has been taken in with horror by international onlookers. Many who once supported lockdowns have gone silent. Indeed, these scenes are the logical conclusion of the Zero Covid cause and serve as a grim reminder of the dystopia that could have been our own had they gotten their way. Who gave life to this deadly ideology which culminated in such catastrophe? Below is a sample of 101 individuals and institutions with significant, public-facing credentials who advocated for “real” lockdowns—harder, longer, or earlier than those imposed across the world in March 2020—to control Covid. As many have noted, journalists and health professionals are overrepresented in this group. Most lean to the political left. Even more telling is that, of all 101 individuals, **not a single one appears to have been financially affected by the lockdowns they were advocating.** Below is a telling example: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-45aca1e5-1111-4783-a9cc-1232f5ccea4f_585x435.png) Image Credit: brownstone.org This indicates that many were aware lockdowns caused significant harm to others—even lethal harm—but were reassured by the fact that those harms did not affect them, personally. Many justified a “real” lockdown as being necessary to prevent further lockdowns. Presumably, this means that some may have stopped supporting lockdowns after seeing they’d failed. That said, all appear to live in states and countries that implemented strict lockdowns in March 2020, and that did not stop them from advocating stricter lockdowns, indicating that some may have advocated even stricter lockdowns in a “no true Scotsman” loop. Lockdown had no history in the western world [prior to Xi Jinping’s lockdown of Wuhan, China](https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-lockdowns-were-a-chinese-import-changchun-shenzhen-mandate-public-health-pandemic-11648045191?ref=goodoil.news), and was not part of any western pandemic plan, but it’s unclear, in most cases, whether those in this sample were thinking of China when advocating for “real” lockdowns. Lockdown was a social phenomenon, and many likely promoted lockdown simply because they saw their peers promoting lockdown. Those who opposed lockdowns were often vilified and censored by powerful institutions; this may have led to an association of support for lockdowns with power, leading many to believe they need not examine the policy prior to advocating it. To be sure, this is a very tiny sample of those who promoted lockdowns on social media. Additionally, for every person who publicly advocated lockdowns, countless others quietly acquiesced while playing no role in the debate. Tragically, these silent enablers [included the leaders](https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/masked-ball-cowardice?ref=goodoil.news) of our society’s highest governing bodies who, each in their own way, could have stopped the entire lockdown catastrophe; this stand-down by the stewards of our most revered institutions gave a veneer of legitimacy to the broad implementation of a Xi Jinping policy across the free world. Nonetheless, all the individuals in this sample publicly advocated policies that caused substantial harm to others in pursuit of a goal that—as Shanghai has so tragically demonstrated—was doomed *ab initio*. The PDF attachment screenshots their tweets and comments. 1. Devi Sridhar, Public Health Professor 2. Tom Frieden, Former CDC Director 3. Jerome Adams, Former Surgeon General 4. Bill Gates, Software developer 5. Anthony Fauci, NIH Director 6. Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director 7. Eric Feigl-Ding 8. Michael Osterholm, Infectious Disease Professor 9. Ian Mackay, Virologist 10. Angela Rasmussen, Virologist 11. Ellie Murray, Epidemiology Professor 12. Lisa Iannattone, Dermatology Professor 13. David Fisman, Public Health Professor 14. Irfan Dhalla, Medical Professor 15. Christina Pagel, Operational Research Professor 16. Zoë Hyde, Epidemiologist 17. Isaac Bogoch, Infectious Disease Physician 18. Tomás Ryan, Neuroscientist 19. Susan Michie, Health Psychology Professor 20. Bruce Arthur, Toronto Star Columnist 21. Yaneer Bar-Yam, Physicist 22. Mike Gibbs, Ontario Ministry of Health 23. Deepti Gurdasani, Epidemiologist 24. Brian Goldman, ER MD 25. The New York Times Editorial Board 26. Jacobin Magazine 27. John Ross, China lobbyist 28. Chen Weihua, China Daily EU Bureau Chief 29. James Palmer, Foreign Policy Magazine Deputy Director 30. Peter Daou, Democratic Campaign Strategist 31. Erica Joy, CTO at Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee 32. Dr. Oz 33. Jason Silverstein, Medical Professor 34. Yoni Freedhoff, Medical Professor 35. Zubaida Haque, Equality Trust Director 36. Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria, Australia 37. Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia 38. Diane Abbott, MP 39. Timm Bruch, CTV Reporter 40. Shafi Ahmed, Medical Professor 41. Abe Oudshoorn, Nursing Professor 42. Ananyo Bhattacharya, Science Writer 43. Bloomberg Opinion 44. Brendan Crabb, Microbiologist 45. Luke Bailey, iPaper Editor 46. Paul Bongiorno, Saturday Paper Columnist 47. Dirk Devroey, Medical Professor 48. Emily Deans, Psychiatrist 49. Ximena González, Freelance WriterOmar Ghraieb, Oxfam Policy and Campaigns Officer 50. Zoe Daniel, Australian Politician 51. Diederik Gommers, Chairman of the Dutch association for ICU doctors 52. Jay Beecher, Investigative Journalist 53. Femi Oluwole, Writer at The Independent 54. Jennifer Gunter, OB/GYN 55. Cheri DiNovo, Canadian Politician 56. Malgorzata Gasperowicz, Developmental Biologist 57. Andrew Gaffney, Sports Writer 58. Andreas Eenfeldt, CEO at Diet Doctor 59. Quentin Dempster, Journalist 60. Simon Houpt, Writer at Globe and Mail 61. Issa López, Film Director 62. Rhys Jones, Public Health Doctor 63. Emmett Macfarlane, Political Science Professor 64. Bartley Kives, CBC Reporter 65. Jane Merrick, iPaper Policy Editor 66. Virginia Heffernan, Wired Columnist 67. Brian Klaas, Global Politics Professor 68. Andrea Horwath, Canadian Politician 69. Judy Melinek, Forensic Pathologist 70. Chico Harlan, Washington Post Bureau Chief 71. Julien Mercille, Geography and Environment Policy Professor 72. Paul Mason, Journalist 73. Margaret Morgan, Filmmaker 74. Mary-Margaret McMahon, UK Politician 75. Steven Newman, Floriculture Professor 76. Don Moynihan, Public Policy Professor 77. Neel Kashkari, President at Minneapolis Federal Reserve 78. Kai Kupferschmidt, Science Journalist 79. Shannon Palus, Editor at Slate 80. Umbereen S Nehal, Founder at Nehal Group LLC 81. Jonathan S Perkins, UCLA Director of Race and Equity 82. Tyler Watt, Public Health Nurse 83. Tony Blakely, Epidemiologist at Melbourne University 84. Alfons López Tena, Spanish Politician 85. Tara C Smith, Infectious Disease Professor 86. André Picard, Globe and Mail Health Journalist 87. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post Columnist 88. Michael Schull, Medical Professor 89. Stefanie Leder, TV Writer/Producer 90. Diana Z Berrent, Founder at Survivor Corp 91. Asa Winstanley, Investigative Journalist 92. Jeff Sharlet, Author 93. Bell Ribeiro-Addy, UK Politician 94. Claudia Webbe, UK Politician 95. Bruce Hawker, Political Commentator 96. Alheli Picazo, Freelance Writer 97. Charlie Stross, Author 98. George Aylett, UK Politician 99. Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust 100. Brianna Wu, Executive Director at Rebellion PAC 101. 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