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1 posted on 01/19/2022 5:11:12 PM PST by ransomnote
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I always thought the FR people were the smart ones. Then covid hit and I found out a lot of them aren’t. They were so easily fooled, it was an amazing thing to see. All were pro-life, and now I see they lied this whole time


30 posted on 01/19/2022 7:42:57 PM PST by roving
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Great Barrington Declaration

https://gbdeclaration.org

The Great Barrington Declaration:

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 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.

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States, by:


31 posted on 01/19/2022 8:30:08 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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I like the social distancing part because it helps to ensure that stupid people stay far away from me.


32 posted on 01/19/2022 8:36:21 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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Good. Save as many as they can.


33 posted on 01/19/2022 8:54:24 PM PST by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative)
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Any drug that fails in an Ebola trial (Remdesivir) has got to suck.

I ca imagine the questions

How are you doing?

I’m bleeding to death out of my a$$.

I got a new medicine for you. Now how you doing?

I’m bleeding out of my a$$ and my eyes, mouth, nose and ….

Ok. We might reduce your medication a bit.

Btw - that’s what they did to me maw in the nursing home. That cintoner Fauchi. They killed a bunch of me maws and Pe Paws. If your not passed off and ready for payback then GFYS.


35 posted on 01/19/2022 9:00:38 PM PST by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative)
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Rd later.


38 posted on 01/19/2022 10:52:10 PM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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It is all about control.


39 posted on 01/20/2022 12:26:30 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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I agree it does seem to be waning — probably thanks to Omicron — and nothing else. By a turn of fate, God intervened and said enough, and “boom” it was fixed.

Now watch every politician that breaths take credit for solving the Wuhan flu bug (after they created it).


47 posted on 01/20/2022 7:06:44 AM PST by icclearly
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