Episode 86: The True Human Costs of Government Imposed Lockdowns with Jim Agresti

Medical studies show that excessive stress and anxiety are among the most debilitating and deadly of all health hazards in the world.

Beyond their obvious effects like suicide and substance abuse—these mental stressors are strongly related to and may trigger and inflame a host of ailments like high blood pressure, digestive disorders, heart conditions, infectious diseases, cancer, and pregnancy complications.

Based on a broad array of scientific studies, my guest Jim Agresti and his organization Just Facts, have calculated that the health risks created by reactions to Covid-19—such as stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will destroy at least seven times more years of human life than can possibly be saved by lockdowns to control the spread of the disease.

This figure is a bare minimum. The total years of life that it will rob from all people is likely more than 90 times greater.

So when a politician like Andrew Cuomo declares that he will take every draconian measure to "save just one life" from Covid 19 he's ignorant to or simply ignoring the massive human costs he's imposing.

Moreover, there's growing evidence that's there not much relationship between the severity of government imposed lockdowns and excess deaths.

Are we looking at one of the most massive leadership blunders in history?

Join me as I explore all this with Jim Agresti.