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Hmmm! PERUse This


One question that I have asked before, is, “Do lockdowns work? Does putting a strangle-hold on people and vis-a-vis the economy prevent the coronavirus from spreading?”

It would seem to me that if lockdowns were the answer, then the more stringent the lockdown, the less the virus would spread. Makes sense, no?

Let’s look at a country that mandated a lockdown strategy, and mandated this approach early on . . . Peru. 

Today I read something very interesting on this subject from Townhall:

As of last week, Peru has reported over 498,000 COVID-19 infections and over 21,000 deaths. More than 27,000 additional deaths are under investigation to see if they are related to the virus. This South American country implemented one of the first lockdowns starting on March 16, and it became one of the longest worldwide, lasting a total of four months.

While the lockdown ended on July 1, the number of COVID-19 related deaths for the country had already risen to over 12,000. The highest daily average for cases for the country was on May 31 at 8,805 infections; the lockdown was still in full force at this point. Hmmm!

Was this Peru lockdown stringent?

Throughout the four-month lockdown, Peruvians were forbidden to leave their homes unless they needed essential goods; nighttime curfews were enforced, borders were closed, businesses shut down, and a mask order was implemented.

This sounds like a very intense lockdown strategy to me. 

So how did that strategy work? 

Even with all the stringent measures, many of which have been suggested by Democrat lawmakers in the United States, Peru has one of the highest fatality rates of COVID-19 in the world at 4.4 percent . . . in spite of the fact that  it was under strict lockdown. Hmmm!

Also, since the start of the pandemic, domestic violence in Latin America has soared due to government lockdowns. Amazingly 1,200 women and girls have mysteriously disappeared in Peru since the start of the pandemic, and are assumed by many, to be dead. Hmmm!

As of today, the current daily COVID-19 infection rate in the country stands between 6,000-8,000 cases on average. Its population is just over 33 million people. Certainly the causes for this high infection fatality rate are multifactorial, but at least, I believe, that it is reasonable to state that lockdowns in Peru did not work. Hmmm!

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