Have you read and signed the Great Barrington Declaration?

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https://gbdeclaration.org/ www.gbdeclaration.org


Please sign the Great Barrington Declaration that was authored by Dr Kulldorff (Harvard), Dr Gupta (Oxford) and Dr Bhattacharya (Stanford) if you believe that those are not vulnerable should be able to live their lives.

You can sign as a medical/public health scientist, medical practitioner or as the general public.

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[IMISREMEMBER]

Thanks for posting

 

[Willie99]

A dissenting opinion that gets no play from our lying POS biased media, may their souls burn in hell for what they've done to this country

I'll sign

 

[Ricboff]

great post BW.

update- 18,774 medical practioners have now signed. 7,896 medical/public health scientists

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The Great Barrington Declaration


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</section><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-22faf86 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="22faf86" data-element_type="section" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">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 PCR 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:








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Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.






Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.








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Medical and Public Health Scientists and Medical Practitioners


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Dr. Stephen Bremner,professor of medical statistics, University of Sussex, England






Dr. Anthony J Brookes, professor of genetics, University of Leicester, England








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Dr. Angus Dalgleish, oncologist, infectious disease expert and professor, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, England






Dr. Sylvia Fogel, autism expert and psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, USA







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Dr. Uri Gavish, biomedical consultant, Israel






Dr. Motti Gerlic, professor of clinical microbiology and immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel








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Dr. Mike Hulme, professor of human geography, University of Cambridge, England






Dr. Michael Jackson, research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand







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Dr. David Katz, physician and president, True Health Initiative, and founder of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, USA






Dr. Andrius Kavaliunas, epidemiologist and assistant professor at Karolinska Institute, Sweden







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Dr. Michael Levitt, biophysicist and professor of structural biology, Stanford University, USA.
Recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.






Dr. David Livermore, microbiologist, infectious disease epidemiologist and professor, University of East Anglia, England








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Dr. Paul McKeigue, physician, disease modeler and professor of epidemiology and public health, University of Edinburgh, Scotland





Dr. Cody Meissner, professor of pediatrics, expert on vaccine development, efficacy, and safety. Tufts University School of Medicine, USA







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Dr. Yaz Gulnur Muradoglu, professor of finance, director of the Behavioural Finance Working Group, Queen Mary University of London, England






Dr. Partha P. Majumder, professor and founder of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India








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Dr. Matthew Ratcliffe, professor of philosophy, specializing in philosophy of mental health, University of York, England






Dr. Mario Recker, malaria researcher and associate professor, University of Exeter, England







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Dr. Karol Sikora MA, physician, oncologist, and professor of medicine at the University of Buckingham, England






Dr. Matthew Strauss, critical care physician and assistant professor of medicine, Queen’s University, Canada







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Dr. Simon Thornley, epidemiologist and biostatistician, University of Auckland, New Zealand





Dr. Ellen Townsend, professor of psychology, head of the Self-Harm Research Group, University of Nottingham, England








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Dr. Simon Wood, biostatistician and professor, University of Edinburgh, Scotland










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Sounds great, right? Just one problem: The vast majority of infectious disease physicians, virologists, and epidemiologists don’t support it—and in fact, most of the scientific community believes that this approach will actively hurt vulnerable people rather than protecting them. “The authors are well known people in public health, but they don’t represent anything like a consensus view about how to approach COVID,” Yale University epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves told me. “The rest of the people in their field are looking at them aghast.” Indeed, the public health community has swarmed to point out the many problems with the Great Barrington plan, and many have also called outJacobin for promoting it.


Gonsalves, who wrote a critique of the document in The Nation, noted that the document starts with a flawed premise—that we’d only need to isolate a select few elderly and at-risk members of society. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 40 percent of Americans have a condition that puts them at risk for severe COVID-19. “We haven’t even been able to protect people in nursing homes,” says Gonsalves. “Now these people are saying let’s open up and we’ll somehow shield the vulnerable? It’s a recipe for disaster.”


At its core, the approach that the Great Barrington Declaration recommends is a gussied-up version of herd immunity, the epidemiological concept that once enough people in a population develop antibodies to a disease, it fades away because there aren’t enough hosts left to sustain it. It may seem like an appealing idea, but as epidemiologist and dean of the Rutgers University School of Public Health Perry Halkitis told me, the herd immunity approach demands that we sacrifice lives in order to get to our goal of jumpstarting the economy. Most likely, he said, the lives that we’d sacrifice would be the very ones that the document claims to protect. The authors claim that they’re protecting vulnerable people “feels disingenuous to me,” he said. “It doesn’t account for the fact that the more you engage people in auditoriums or stadiums—well people work there, and they’re working class people, and those people are vulnerable.”


The Great Barrington Declaration’s market-first philosophy makes sense when you consider its source: The document was created at a meeting of the American Institution for Economic Research, a libertarian-leaning think tank. The group’s mission statement says it “envisions a world in which societies are organized according to the principles of pure freedom—in which the role of government is sharply confined to the provision of public goods and individuals can flourish within a truly free market and a free society.” Over the last few weeks, the creators of the document have met with White House coronavirus advisor Scott Atlas, Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, all of whom have vociferously advocated against social distancing measures during the pandemic.

We’re close to a turning point in the virus: Vaccines will arrive sometime in the next year, and when they do, they’ll put us on a much safer course toward ending the pandemic. “We’ll get herd immunity, but let’s do that with a vaccine, not by sacrificing people,” said Halkitis. “It’s not 1918, for God’s sake.” In the meantime, both Halkitis and Gonsalves agreed that it would be dangerously unwise to follow the Great Barrington Declaration’s advice. “The idea that you can keep outbreaks among the young away from the elderly is ridiculous,” says Gonsalves. “They can spin it however they like, but they don’t really have a plan—it’s grotesque, and it borders on eugenics.”

 

[Ricboff]

lol, that didnt take long....

“We’ll get herd immunity, but let’s do that with a vaccine, not by sacrificing people,” said Halkitis. “It’s not 1918, for God’s sake.”


way too emotional.'sacrificing people' ,lol. Did he read the recommendations for the target group that the little bug hits from The Declaration? Gotta be more rational Halkitis, cant see the forest from the trees. Is he willign to sacrifice the thousands that will die as a result of lockdowns? the likely increased morbidity rates? the rise in mental illness? sounds like he is, ....doesnt sound like a very compassionate kinda guy