{"id":240768,"date":"2021-08-14T05:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T05:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240768"},"modified":"2021-08-15T07:21:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T07:21:04","slug":"no-lockdown-belarus-reports-covid-mortality-rates-similar-to-neighboring-countries-that-imposed-draconian-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240768","title":{"rendered":"No Lockdown Belarus Reports COVID Mortality Rates Similar to Neighboring Countries That Imposed Draconian Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Joseph Watson \u2013 SUMMIT News Aug 13, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The country of Belarus, which imposed no legal lockdown at all throughout the entire pandemic, has released COVID mortality figures which are broadly in line with other nearby countries which imposed draconian lockdowns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After authorities in Belarus refused to put their citizens under lockdown, the global media had a collective hissy fit, with one headline declaring, \u201cOne leader looks hell-bent on turning COVID-19 into a catastrophe for his country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, while managing to avoid all the negative impacts of lockdown, the outcome of Belarus\u2019 no lockdown policy is far from a \u201ccatastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_240769\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/excess-mortality-Belarus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240769\" class=\"wp-image-240769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/excess-mortality-Belarus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-240769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Newly released overall death statistics from the start of the pandemic up to March 2021 show that the death rate is similar to neighboring countries such as Latvia, Russia and Ukraine which imposed full lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, when compared to Poland, which imposed a particularly harsh lockdown, Belarus\u2019 mortality rate in March 2021 was significantly lower.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_240770\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/excess-mortality-BElarus-compared-to-other-nations.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240770\" class=\"wp-image-240770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/excess-mortality-BElarus-compared-to-other-nations-1024x723.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-240770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Belarus is similar to Sweden, which has suffered fewer than 15,000 COVID deaths despite refusing to impose a lockdown. Figures show that cases and deaths tend to fall in waves whether a lockdown is imposed or not, proving that lockdowns are totally pointless.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The strict lockdown in the UK\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 was so effective that it stopped the spread of Covid in Sweden\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea as well \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M12KVBibw5\">pic.twitter.com\/M12KVBibw5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEliDavid\/status\/1362181460887826435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlongside places like South Dakota, Florida, Sweden and Tanzania, Belarus is an important illustration of what can be expected from COVID-19 when restrictions aren\u2019t imposed. Like those places, we see that the outcome is basically the same as similar places where restrictions are imposed,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2021\/08\/13\/belarus-the-country-with-no-restrictions-and-no-disaster\/\">writes<\/a> Will Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt simply isn\u2019t the case that a whole country becomes infected if the virus is given largely free reign, as Belarus, like other no-restriction jurisdictions, shows. Even without lockdowns and vaccines the epidemic is self-limiting and comes to an end at around the same point having infected a similar number of people. Until our leaders and their advisers grasp this crucial fact about COVID-19, they will keep pursuing pointless and ineffective but deeply harmful policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect any of this to be highlighted by the mainstream media, which has parroted the provable falsehood that repeated lockdowns were to thank for ending each \u201cwave\u201d of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>They weren\u2019t, because countries that didn\u2019t lockdown experienced broadly the same pattern of waves as those that did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Alert!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pjwshop.com\/\">In the age of mass Silicon Valley censorship It is crucial that we stay in touch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pjwshop.com\/\">I need you to sign up for my free newsletter <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/newsletter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support my sponsor \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/TURBOFORCE\">Turbo Force<\/a> \u2013 a supercharged boost of clean energy without the comedown.<\/p>\n<p>Get early access, exclusive content and behinds the scenes stuff by following me on <a href=\"https:\/\/pauljosephwatson.locals.com\/\"><strong>Locals<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/08\/13\/no-lockdown-belarus-reports-covid-mortality-rates-similar-to-neighboring-countries-that-imposed-draconian-lockdowns\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under President Lukashenko, Belarus has ridden out the \u201cpandemic\u201d with minimal disruption to its economy and daily life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240822,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240768\/revisions\/240822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}