Official federal test results show that American children’s reading has not recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.

Patrick Green, chief executive of the Ben Kinsella Trust, an anti-knife crime charity, blamed the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns for making young people feel more "vulnerable."

Why not just [have] total lockdown [for the whole city]?" he said. Meanwhile, others said they felt the lockdowns were racially motivated. "[This] is one of the problems with the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA being labelled as ‘plague central.’

A resident looks out from her window during a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on May 25, 2022.

Protesters chanted “Take down the Chinese Communist Party” and “No more lockdown.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must choose: maintain its strict lockdowns, or rapidly immunize its population with more effective Western mRNA vaccines. Lockdowns are likely to fail against Omicron, and mRNA immunizations will take time.

The Australian state of Victoria’s parliament was in lockdown on Thursday morning after an alleged bomb threat.   Police said they had arrived at a Spring St building in Melbourne to complete a “safety check” about 10.45 a.m.

They will be able to impose a climate lockdown. That's the next step. That's what we are talking about. In order to do that, they will have to have these 15-minute cities.

“People need to make a living, but the government hasn’t given us a break from the ongoing lockdowns.” “This time [the authorities] casually ordered a seven-day lockdown again, which triggered the protest.

At this point, fully 36 days after his initial call for a lockdown, Trump went public, both in a press conference and on Twitter, to criticize even the smallest efforts to end his own lockdowns.

The regime’s decision to keep lockdowns is political and has global economic effects.

The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns on babies' language and social skills are still "ongoing," according to a report published on Wednesday.

Melbourne, in particular, held the record for the city enduring the longest lockdown in the world.

Some researchers out of Stanford have examined what happened to the kids during the pandemic lockdowns.

Not only did lockdowns not work to stop the virus, but they took a huge human toll. Countless lives were lost because of missed medical treatments, missed diagnoses, suicide, depression, and many other things.

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Dr. Avery Jackson, a board-certified neurosurgeon based in Michigan, performs complicated brain surgeries in the operating room as often as four times a week. During these surgeries, which can last for up to eighteen hours, Jackson, who is Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director of Michigan Neurosurgical Institute in Grand Blanc, wears a surgical mask. […]

Anthony Fauci has insisted that he is not to blame for millions of Americans having to go into lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, but acknowledged that something "went wrong" with the government's response to the pandemic.

It was they who experienced an incredible 17.5 percent rate of unemployment following lockdowns.

Still, a decade and a half later, governments all over the world tried lockdowns anyway. And sure enough, since April 2020, scholars have observed that these lockdown policies haven’t worked.

Another media report said that the line to register for divorce after the lockdown is similar to that for PCR testing during the lockdown.

It claimed that there were few if any deaths in most parts of China, and it used this to claim its "zero-COVID" policies of lockdowns and mandates were the solution.

Governments were given credible warnings about the dangers of lockdowns, but did not listen.

JCCF lawyer Marty Moore argued that the lockdown orders were not based on science and were counterproductive.

One reported byproduct of the lockdown is a new wave of divorces. According to Shanghai local media reports, after the lockdown, a wave of divorces began.

Getting forced out of their houses may not be the worst of it for Chinese citizens under lockdown. Some residents say the true suffering starts after they get home.

“It demonstrates that lockdowns were a failed promise. They had negligible health effects but disastrous economic, social and political costs to society. Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times,” he added.

According to government contracts obtained by The Epoch Times, it turns out that the CDC has been using taxpayer money to purchase the cell phone tracking data of millions of Americans—in order to monitor how compliant they were with government lockdowns

Commentary The possibility of U.S. lockdowns—never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics—was already in the air in early March 2020.

After the trio filed their lawsuit, Beshear defended his lockdown decisions.