Posted on 10/10/2020 8:22:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If Democrats truly want to follow the science – rather than the politics -- in the fight against COVID-19, they might want to take a closer look at “The Great Barrington Declaration.”
Organized by infectious-disease experts Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University, Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, it recommends allowing people to live normally despite the virus while protecting the most vulnerable elements of the population so as to avoid the lockdowns’ devastating physical, mental, economic, and educational impacts.
The mainstream media has essentially ignored the Declaration, but to date over 5,500 medical and public health scientists and 11,000 medical practitioners have signed it. That numbers continue to grow.
The Declaration expresses “grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies,” pointing out that the “heaviest burden” is falling on “working-class and younger members of society.”
According to the Declaration, “[c]urrent lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.” It concludes that “[k]eeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.”
Going forward, “[t]he 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.” The authors call this approach “Focused Protection.”
It is essentially the approach followed in Sweden (the country that has most successfully dealt with the virus), which is increasingly supported by the World Health Organization. It is also the very policy approach that President Trump has been recommending, to great criticism and disdain from Democrats and their leftist media allies.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
To leftists, “science” means exactly what they want it to mean whether supported by evidence or not.
I think this is the most rational approach, and clearly the right way to go. Thank you for posting this. I agree that the lockdown is diminishing a lot of our natural immunological health among all the other corollary effects.
Appreciate your vigilance to promote what is a rational approach to the whole thing in terms of what should occur as a matter of policy. Now if only we could agree on the other stuff...:-)
When I suggested this approach several months ago, I was severely criticized for age discrimination. In effect, my critics wanted uniform restrictions across all groups in the interest of maximizing ‘safety’ over freedom.
That’s the Marxist definition of “equality.”
Only ping pong blather from Fauci counts as real science. /s
You mean of FR? If so, there were more than a few Freezers posting to close almost all of the entire US down for weeks on end.
Actually had one Freeper post that it was a bad idea to even drive or walk far from you home I'm case you got in an accident and EMS needed to assist you.
Sorry for typos:
You mean on FR? If so, there were more than a few Freepers posting to close almost all of the entire US down for weeks on end.
Actually had one Freeper post that it was a bad idea to even drive or walk far from your home in case you got in an accident and EMS needed to assist you.
The Great Barrington Declaration is a proposal, written and signed at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on October 4th, 2020 addressing the response to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Brazil infection rate falls below US but...
Brazil isn’t even bothering to test anymore unless you are severely ill.
Brazil tests are therefore 28% positive vs US 6.8%.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30387-9/fulltext
I should have been clearer. That was on cruise critic, the most popular cruising website. Might just have been my military background, but it only makes sense to focus your protection on the most vulnerable while allowing those capable of taking care of themselves to do so.
This was NEVER about public health.
Limbaugh talking about this now.
Google is screwing with searches for it.
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