A professor at Stanford University School of Medicine called the COVID-19 blockade “the biggest public health mistake I’ve ever made.”
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – a physician whose recent research “focuses on the epidemiology of COVID-19 as well as an assessment of policy responses to the epidemic” – commented on a February interview with the Daily Clout, a author of the magazine Naomi Wolf founded “to help anyone, in any field of life, to use and affect democracy more strongly.” Bhattacharya’s comments were not widely reported until this week.
What did the teacher say?
Bhattacharya began the interview by discussing the Great Barrington Declaration, which he co-authored. The document argues that COVID-19 blockages produce devastating effects on public health in the short and long term. The results (to name a few) include lower vaccination rates in children, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deterioration mental health – leading to higher excess mortality in the coming years, with the working class and younger members of society bearing the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a serious injustice. “He added that” maintaining these measures the availability of a vaccine will cause irreparable damage to disadvantaged people disproportionately affected ”.
Thursday’s statement says more than 13,000 medical and public health scientists signed it, along with more than 41,000 doctors.
With this, Bhattacharya told Wolf that the Great Barrington Declaration “comes from two basic facts.”
“One is that older people are at a much higher risk of dying from COVID than younger people … So the first plank of the Great Barrington Declaration: Protecting the Vulnerable,” he said before adding that “The other idea is that blockages themselves do great harm to people. Locks are not a normal way to live normally. ”
Bhattacharya also noted that “blocking damage is more serious than COVID” and that “people’s harm 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 only physically, but also mentally and emotionally – such as interacting with friends. and the ability to earn a living, which is blocked by blockages.
The doctor’s comment “the biggest public health mistake I’ve ever made” appears at 26:45 in the video below, but the whole interview is worth your time:
„Prof. Jay Bhattacharya, signatory of Gt Barrington’s statement: “Closure ‘will kill millions”
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Something else?
Newsweek noticed Bhattacharya’s comments, and the magazine said it was by their side in an email:
I stand behind my comment that blockages are the worst public health mistake of the last 100 years. We will count the catastrophic health and psychological damage inflicted on almost any poor person on earth for a generation.
At the same time, they did not serve to control the epidemic in the places where they were most strongly imposed. In the US, they protected – at best – the “non-essential” class of COVID, while exposing the essential working class to the disease. Blockages decrease epidemiology.
This is not a new position for Bhattacharya, who said in May last year that people are “wrong” if they believe coronavirus blocking policies will provide safety against COVID-19.
As for Wolf, she was also in the news on the same subject, telling Fox News’ Tucker Carlson late last month that America is turning into a “totalitarian state in the face of to all ”, against the background of the blocking of the coronavirus of our government: