You can form your own conclusions about the effectiveness of the government response to the pandemic after reviewing the following facts and information, and conducting your own further research of the data, evidence and concerns being put forward by many experts, frontline healthworkers, educators, parents and well informed men and women, most of whom were 'silenced' throughout the pandemic.
You may wish to consider the information in the video below of Dr Jay Bhattacharya, one of the world leading epidemiologists who was co-author of The Great Barrington Declaration, which was a proposed response to the pandemic, authored by global scientists and medical experts who recommended a very different, and as it turns out, more appropriate, response to the pandemic. See more about the Great Barrington Declaration in the facts below.
But also consider the information in the video below by Dr Chris Shoemaker, which begs the question why a pandemic was called, when scientists already had a safe and effective treatment for Corona viruses.
Dr Jay Bhattacharya - They LIED! There was NOT a Scientific Consensus on ANY of the Pandemic Response Measures
Dr Chris Shoemaker - Scientists spent 15 years to find that Ivermectin was a safe and effective treatment for Corona viruses
Prior to the Covid-19 Pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) experts analyzed the scientific literature and drafted recommendations for pandemic management.
Please see under supporting evidence below 'The WHO Review And Why It Matters To You', for a detailed analysis of whether the non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic, were in line with the 2019 WHO pandemic management recommendations. On page 6 of this document, you will find the following summary of the recommendations made by the WHO in 2019.
These same recommendations were included in the 'Pandemic Plans' of many countries at the time of the Covid outbreak, and these recommendations were accepted in late 2019 as the best science available.

When you compare the list of policies adopted by most countries around the world throughout the Covid pandemic, you may be surprised to see that none of the recommendations that were accepted as best practice, science-based responses, were followed. In fact, in most cases the exact opposite approach was enforced.
Please read the full analysis for yourself in this well researched and easy to read paper. You can then decide for yourself how many of the government policies and measures to address Covid were based on 'the science' and whether they really were in the best interests of our health, and the best way to deal with the pandemic.
Please also see the short video 'Jordon Peterson on The Pandemic' in the link below, where he states:
"I have had conversations with people advising at the highest levels of government, particularly in Canada, who have told me flat out, and they are very reliable sources, that NONE of the Covid policy for the last year was driven by reliance on science, its ALL opinion poll..."
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