Posted on 02/01/2021 5:35:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, told podcast host Megyn Kelly that lockdowns have ineffectively addressed the concerns and danger COVID-19 poses to certain communities.
“I’ve come to think of it as trickle-down epidemiology. We’ve used the lockdowns to protect the rich, whereas we essentially expose the — like in California for instance, it’s the poor areas that have had the high death rates from COVID. The lockdowns haven’t protected people living in places where there’s high poverty,” Bhattacharya said on “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “Minority populations, especially Hispanics, have been hard hit. Fifty percent of people who have had COVID deaths are Hispanic in California.”
According to Battacharya, lockdowns were an “unfocused overreaction” that served as a distraction from addressing the people who are the most vulnerable to the virus.
“The lockdowns have been an enormous and ineffective overreaction, not actually protecting the population from COVID. While at the same time, the collateral damage is absolutely devastating,” he continued. “It’s an unfocused overreaction. … We just should have focused on the population we knew to be at risk, protected them, thought of creative ways to protect them from the beginning of the epidemic. … And for the rest of the population, the lockdown, we should have been thinking about the collateral damage from the very beginning.”
One aspect of this “collateral damage,” Kelly said, is the fact that teachers unions are preventing students from returning to in-person learning, another decision that is hurting already at-risk communities.
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Protect the ruling class, by doing anything possible to hurt President Trump's re-election.
Rich people have RNA virus privilege.
It only makes sense that if you lock everyone down and they are crowded in poor areas, and disease will rip through there.
This is no different that Killer Cuomo did with forcing nursing homes to take COVID patients.
5 Jan: Wiley Online: Assessing mandatory stay‐at‐home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID‐19
by Eran Bendavid, Christopher Oh, Jay Bhattacharya, John P. A. Ioannidis
The study was funded with support from the Stanford COVID‐19 Seroprevalence Studies Fund.
Background and Aims
The most restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for controlling the spread of COVID‐19 are mandatory stay‐at‐home and business closures. Given the consequences of these policies, it is important to assess their effects...
Conclusions
While small benefits cannot be excluded, we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs. Similar reductions in case growth may be achievable with less‐restrictive interventions.
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13484
Lock downs accomplished what ObamaCare couldn’t. Kill off the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions.
All those people who would put a strain on socialized medicine.
They still need to kill off a couple million more. The side effects of the vaccines might very well take care of it in the coming years of lock downs.
The ruling class had a grand old time as people died and suffered and continue to. It was all blamed on Trump. I hate these fvking scum.
where was this guy when the lockdowns were first implemented?
interesting to see all of the people coming out of the woodwork now that Biden is in office.
That guy has about 10 seconds to live.
Who cares? video 10:47
Yes.. I’m upper middle class in CA. When schools closed, I moved one teen to private and moved the other to homeschooling (and used “connections” to help find him a part time coding job—he loves it —as he waits for college next fall). Both my husband and myself have the luxury of working from home. We are financially thriving during this pandemiic.
Meanwhile the evil teachers unions keep other poorer kids who can’t afford all that at home alone in their homes—unsupervised and flunking out— while their single moms go work at Safeway. (But Latinos do like to hold huge indoor parties which is not CA’s fault—except if they had kept outdoor dining open that may have mitigated some of that (?)
Awful! CA has blood on it’s hands for sure.
Bump
Given the multifamily setting that many “hispanics” live in, I’m not surprised they were hit hard by Wuhan Flu. Add to that the housing squeeze due to environazi zoning and astronomical rents, the democraps are to blame again.
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