Commentary: Doctors on Public Health After COVID: Effects of Lockdowns May Be Felt for Entire Generation

The fallout of the extended, panic-induced coronavirus shutdowns and restrictions will have devastating psychological, physical and economic consequences for years to come.

That’s the sobering assessment of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an economist and professor of medicine at Stanford University, and Martin Kulldorff, who teaches at Harvard Medical School.

In a podcast Monday with The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech, Bhattacharya warned that the pervasive collateral damage of the shutdowns will haunt Americans for at least a generation.

“The lockdowns have had enormous collateral damage,” he said. “We’re going to be counting those costs for, I mean, at least a decade, maybe a generation, with the loss of schooling.”

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Left-wing cable network CNN has been accused of intentionally overhyping the pandemic to terrorize its viewers in order to boost ratings.

According to Bhattacharya, a tragic fallout of the mass panic-stoking has been that government officials have pushed unscientific guidelines and mandates based on hysteria — not on science.

Unfortunately, he doesn’t believe there will be any accountability for the misguided “experts” who rabidly promoted the draconian, ineffective coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns.