"To cut to the chase, Jeffrey Tucker found that it was probably the doing of the National Security Council, which took control of the matter based on the belief that it was dealing with a Chicom-produced bioweapon, and then an even more hostile Homeland Security Department, which hated Trump with a passion and pushed for its perma-lockdowns to crush the economy. Remember the 'anonymous' book about hating Trump? It was written by one of its disloyal denizens.
They persuaded Trump that the bioweapon scenario was true, necessitating all-encompassing and extended lockdowns -- schools, churches, small shops, little businesses, the works -- trashing the economy and lighting the fire for the inflation that would follow as government checks went out, and industrial scale fraud followed.
Subsequent studies, put together as a meta-analysis or study of studies, by Johns Hopkins University economist Steve Hanke and two European colleagues, found that lockdowns worked only to a negligible extent, but did untold damage.
Tucker points out that Trump caught on fairly quickly to the bee ess and his medical advisor, Dr. Scott Atlas, explained it all out for him. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the report asserts, was playing a double game in the midst of this as sort of a sideline.
But by then, Trump had lost control of the government, and his calls to end lockdowns went ignored."
