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Stanford professor: To fully eliminate COVID-19, we would have to 'destroy our entire society'
Just the News ^ | October 3, 2020 | Daniel Payne

Posted on 10/03/2020 1:35:54 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

Aprofessor of medicine at Stanford University has warned that the only way to fully eliminate COVID-19 from the population will be to effectively destroy society itself, a price tag he said was too high for the goal of beating the deadly disease.

Jay Bhattacharya recently made that grim pronouncement during a virtual roundtable with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and several other public health experts. Bhattacharya over the last few months has been an outspoken critic of many of the ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns and mitigation measures that were first imposed in March of this year.

Speculating on the possibility of getting to "zero COVID," a scenario he said may not even be "technically feasible," Bhattacharya said the cost would be "so high ... that it's not worth it."

"[W]e know that we're going to have to destroy our society in order to get it," he said. "We’ll have to get rid of all of our freedoms; we'll have to make sure that very few people interact with each other."...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: bingo
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As much as I disdain models in light of how wrong they have been and how they have been misused, someone ought to be able to run some models showing x level of lockdowns and freedom curtailments results in y amount of lower COVID deaths but a z level increase in other kinds of deaths and detrimental outcomes in other areas.
1 posted on 10/03/2020 1:35:54 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Let’s start with China.


2 posted on 10/03/2020 1:38:50 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: CheshireTheCat

Just vote democrat then?


3 posted on 10/03/2020 1:40:03 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: CheshireTheCat

We’d solve a whole lot of problems if we eliminated all college professors. Aside from George Soros, I can’t think of a bigger threat to this country than leftist indoctrination camps we call universities.


4 posted on 10/03/2020 1:42:30 PM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot acceptI)
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To: CheshireTheCat

We’d solve a whole lot of problems if we eliminated all college professors. Aside from George Soros, I can’t think of a bigger threat to this country than leftist indoctrination camps we call universities.


5 posted on 10/03/2020 1:42:30 PM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot acceptI)
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To: CheshireTheCat

My friends girlfriend (they live in California) killed herself last month. She was just 36 and depressed with this lock down.


6 posted on 10/03/2020 1:43:09 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: CheshireTheCat

It’s just a new cold. Every cold probably started this way, coming from China, decimating the elderly, immunizing the young and culling the gene pool permanently of the genetically vulnerable.


7 posted on 10/03/2020 1:43:53 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: LIConFem

You’re not thinking big enough. All of our problems would be solved if we eliminated the entire human race. Which is the goal of a lot of RevComDems.


8 posted on 10/03/2020 1:44:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward timef)
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Stanford professor: To fully eliminate COVID-19, we would have to 'destroy our entire society'

I'm filing this under Category: Duh!

I'm also filing this under Category: Don't need Stanford degree to know this.

I'm further filing this under Category: All Biden-voters think Biden is smart (but not as smart as Don LeMon, Rachel Maddow, and Joe Scarborough).

9 posted on 10/03/2020 1:44:30 PM PDT by gw-ington
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To: I Drive Too Fast

I am sorry to hear that, but I fear there is more of this going on than we realize.

But where are the demonstrations with signs displaying pictures of the other victims of COVID-19, the ones hurt by the hysterical overreaction? Who will speak for them?


10 posted on 10/03/2020 1:46:28 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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Stanford professor: To fully eliminate COVID-19, we would have to ‘destroy our entire society


Mask wearing, and especially mandatory mask wearing, is an excellent start.


11 posted on 10/03/2020 1:48:26 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Here’s something close, an analysis by Dr Scott Atlas using the government’s own stats:

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/499394-the-covid-19-shutdown-will-cost-americans-millions-of-years-of-life

Banned fom youtube
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/the-doctor-is-in-scott-atlas-and-the-efficacy-of-lockdowns-social-distancing-and-closings_QJcLvDIckGxP2zU.html

or

https://www.bitchute.com/video/KL3ak04WrTZB/


12 posted on 10/03/2020 1:48:31 PM PDT by khelus
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To: CheshireTheCat

Good luck eradicating a virus ! No matter what you do !!!!


13 posted on 10/03/2020 1:49:53 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Totally worth it.


14 posted on 10/03/2020 1:49:59 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: CheshireTheCat

“fully eliminate”

That goal is questionable in itself.

I proposed a 14-day through lockdown around early April.

Probably one other would have been necessary.

That’s 28 days of economic impact.


15 posted on 10/03/2020 1:53:13 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: CheshireTheCat

Radio Habana reports that Venezuela has gotten a shipment of Sputnik vaccine.


16 posted on 10/03/2020 1:54:46 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: CheshireTheCat

b/s


17 posted on 10/03/2020 1:58:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Trump stands with us to preserve the Republic. Biden kneels with those wanting to burn it all down.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Exactly! We have to accept some losses like any other virus. This nonsense it is worth it to destroy the entire economy if it saves one life is utter madness.


18 posted on 10/03/2020 2:01:16 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: HighSierra5

Nope. Let’s start with this professor, who is clearly nuts.


19 posted on 10/03/2020 2:01:22 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Exactly! Cure the common cold first and then talk about curing this virus.


20 posted on 10/03/2020 2:02:09 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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