“…the unprecedented strict mass quarantine and isolation of both sick and healthy elderly people, together and separately, killed many of them,” say Denis G. Rancourt PhD., Marine Baudin and Jérémie Mercier in a paper published last month.

The paper, titled Evaluation of the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 in France, from all-cause mortality 1946-2020, explores the inconsistencies in the “COVID peak” of deaths seen throughout the world when we all went into lockdown. Indeed, the researchers label the sudden spike as “artificial” and not the result of a pathogen. Not only did it happen too quickly, but “is absent in many jurisdictions (34 of the USA States have no ‘COVID-peak’).”

Instead Rancourt et al. ascribes the peak in deaths not to the virus, but to the reaction to the virus – namely “psychological stress and social isolation of individuals with health vulnerabilities.”

The paper focuses on France and proposes that 30,200 people died in April and March due to the country’s highly restrictive quarantine policies. Exactly how lockdown caused so many deaths is explained in a sentence so long it was worthy of the French novelist Marcel Proust:

“By the said mass quarantine in care homes and establishments, the State isolated vulnerable elderly persons from their families, limited movements within establishments, often confining individuals to their rooms or beds for days and weeks if not months, reduced the staff and allowed staff to take extended or frequent sick leaves, forced staff to adopt extreme measures such as masks, shields and gloves, which can induce a measure of fear or terror, created a general atmosphere of danger, and prevented air
circulation by locking doors and windows, and by preventing ingoing and outgoing traffic except for essential services.”

Of course, the harm was not limited to nursing homes. “The same mechanism would operate in any setting (facility, group home, home, hospital) where persons with health vulnerabilities are isolated and susceptible to psychological stress.”

Such psychological stress and social isolation could have caused “immune response dysfunction, depression, cardiovascular disease and cancer.” The paper also argues that such stress would have bad “more deleterious effects in elderly persons than in younger persons.”

We saw the same in Canada with the nursing home fiasco in Ontario and Quebec. Sadly, restricted activity within and without of care homes still continues, with a looming threat of it increasing come winter. Yet, any excess deaths will be more likely blamed on “the pandemic” rather than the politicians enforcing the quarantines.

“Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies are so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it,” wrote Blaise Pascal. Share this article and Rancourt’s report with others. Let them see the the damage being done by the governments’ “cure” for COVID-19.