Thousands of Doctors, Health Experts Sign Letter Urging End to Misguided Lockdown Policies

GREAT BARRINGTON, MA – Yet, it bucks the carefully orchestrated Pandemic Panic narrative, and thus must be resisted and refuted at every turn. No matter that what the letter states is factual, and that the hysteria is warns against is costing lives unnecessarily; the Great Reset and Green New Deal policies cannot be ushered in if such truths are widely distributed and considered by people here and abroad.

It’s called the Great Barrington Declaration, and it has been signed by a diverse group of thousands of doctors and public health experts. What does is declare? That governments should end the, “damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies,” and instead prioritize protecting the most vulnerable.

In other words, it declares what many have been trying their best to communicate for months; that lockdowns do not work to significantly curtail the spread of the virus, and are in fact only add to the damage to public health and community well being.

So who wrote it? Are the purveyors of Pandemic Panic going to easily dismiss the declaration like they laughed off HCQ (which works and is safe)? That is going to be tough, considering the pedigree of the authors of this letter — Harvard, Oxford, Stanford. All recognized as leading experts in their fields.

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.

These leaders actually held an in depth discussion of the topic, covering a huge amount of information and insights about the pandemic, the policies it has helped spur, and the reality of those policies’ effects.

If you don’t have two hours, however, the declaration itself is a much shorter investment of time, but nearly as powerful in terms of imparting factual information that destroys the Pandemic Panic narrative being spread in the U.S. and around the world for the last 6 months.

The letter:

“The Great Barrington Declaration – As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e.  the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent PCR testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.”

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