The Truth About Lockdowns
07/06/2021
- People Suffering from Other Diseases
- Starvation and Food Insecurity
- Effects on Children
- Study estimates up to 2.3 million additional child deaths in the next year from lockdowns

- Lockdowns are fueling child labor, including in commercial sex exploitation, mining, and tobacco production

- Up to 104% increase in new HIV infections among children

- Millions of girls have been deprived of access to food, basic healthcare, and protection and thousands exposed to abuse and exploitation

- FGM increases in Africa, setting back previous widespread efforts to end FGM

- Lockdown impact: an estimated 13 million more child marriages

- Teen pregnancy up in many countries

- Low-income students are suffering in online classes, widening inequality

- School closures leading to a disproportionate increased health, social and economic divides between low and high-income families

- School closures in the US decreased reported child abuse by 27 percent

- Billions of days of lost education worldwide

- Decreased access to healthcare

- Anxiety and stress from stay-at-home orders

- Sharp rise in eating disorders among children

- Child abuse reports increased 34% in Ireland between March and December

- Children, in greater numbers and at younger ages, are facing suicide and drug problems in Bradford, UK due to lockdowns

- Domestic/Sexual Abuse
- Economy and Poverty
- Mental health
- Suicides
- Substance Abuse