We the undersigned believe the societal “lockdown” response to COVID-19 in the United States and most other countries of restrictions that include closing schools, restaurants and bars, health clubs, houses of worship, and other businesses, and banning gathering in groups, has caused far more harm in clinical depression, suicides and other deaths of despair, lost or impaired education, deaths from cancer and heart disease, domestic and child abuse, unemployment, and general unhappiness than the good it has done in averting COVID deaths, and therefore should never have been implemented and should be ended now.
