A professor at Stanford University School of Medicine called COVID-19 closures the ‘biggest mistake in public health’.
Dr Jay Bhattacharya – a medical doctor whose recent research ‘focuses on the epidemiology of COVID-19 as well as an evaluation of policy responses to the epidemic’ – comments as part of a February interview with the Daily Clout, ‘ an author Naomi Wolf ‘founded’ to help anyone, from every lifestyle, use and influence democracy more powerfully. ‘Bhattacharya’s comments have not been widely reported until this week.
What did the professor say?
Bhattacharya began the interview with a discussion of the Great Barrington Declaration, which he co-authored. The document argues that COVID-19 closures’ have devastating consequences for short- and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower vaccination rates in children, worse cardiovascular disease, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess in the coming years, with the working class and younger members of society suffering the most. las dra. It is a serious injustice to keep students out of school. “It adds that ‘maintaining these measures until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, while unduly harming the less privileged.’
The statement from Thursday indicates that more than 13,000 medical and public health scientists have signed it, along with more than 41,000 medical practitioners.
With that, Bhattacharya told Wolf that the Great Barrington Declaration “comes from two basic facts.”
“One is that people who are older are at a much greater risk of dying from COVID than people who are younger … So the first plan of the Great Barrington Declaration: let’s protect the defenseless,” he said before he added that ‘the other idea is that locking up people themselves causes great damage. Locks are not a normal way of life. ‘
Bhattacharya also noted that ‘the damage is worse than COVID’ and that ‘the damage to people is catastrophic’. His reasoning is that “public health” means much more than protection against a virus, and that people need many more things in life to stay healthy – not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally – such as interacting with friends and the ability to make money, which prevented barriers.
The doctor’s “biggest public health mistake we’ve ever made” comes at point 26:45 in the video below, but the whole interview is worth it:
“Prof Jay Bhattacharya, Signatory of Gt Barrington Statement: Why ‘Lockdown’ Will Kill Millions”
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Anything else?
Newsweek took note of Bhattacharya’s comments, and the magazine said in an email:
I stand by my remark that lockdown is the biggest mistake in public health in the last 100 years. We will inflict the catastrophic health and psychological damage inflicted on almost every poor human being on earth for a generation to come.
At the same time, they did not control the epidemic in the places where they were most strongly imposed. In the US, they – at best – protected the “non-essential” class from COVID, while exposing the essential working class to the disease. The exclusions are dropping epidemiology.
This is not a new position for Bhattacharya, which declared last May that people are ‘mistaken’ if they believe the coronavirus coronavirus closure policy will provide COVID-19 safety.
As for Wolf, she was also in the news on the same topic and Tucker Carlson told Fox News late last month that America is turning into a “totalitarian state before everyone’s eyes” amid our government’s coronavirus exclusions: