A professor at Stanford University School of Medicine called the COVID-19 blockades the “biggest public health mistake we’ve ever made”.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – a doctor whose recent research “focuses on the epidemiology of COVID-19, as well as an assessment of political responses to the epidemic” – made his comment as part of a February interview with Daily Clout, outlet writer Naomi Wolf founded “to help anyone, in any position of life, to use and affect democracy more powerfully” Bhattacharya’s comments were not widely publicized until this week.
What did the teacher say?
Bhattacharya began the interview by discussing the Great Barrington Declaration, of which he coauthored. The document argues that the blockades of COVID-19 “are having devastating effects on public health in the short and long term. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease, less cancer screening and deterioration. mental health – leading to a greater excess of mortality in the coming years, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a serious injustice. ”He adds that“ keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable harm, with the disadvantaged being disproportionately harmed “.
The statement on Thursday indicates that more than 13,000 medical and public health scientists have signed it, along with more than 41,000 doctors.
With that, Bhattacharya told Wolf that the Greater Barrington Declaration “comes from two basic facts”.
“One is that older people have a much greater risk of dying from COVID than younger people … So the first part of the Greater Barrington Declaration: let’s protect the vulnerable,” he said before adding that “a another idea is that the blockages themselves do great harm to people. Blockages are not a normal natural way of life. ”
Bhattacharya also noted that “the damage from the blockade is worse than COVID” and that “the damage to people is catastrophic”. His reasoning is that “public health” means much more than protection from a virus, and that people need a lot more in life to stay healthy – not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally – like interacting with them. friends and the ability to earn a living, which the blockages prevented.
The doctor’s comment about the “biggest public health mistake we’ve ever made” reaches the 26:45 mark in the video below, but the entire interview is worth your time:
“Prof Jay Bhattacharya, Signatory to the Gt Barrington Declaration: Why ‘Lockdown’ Will Kill Millions”
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Anything else?
Newsweek heard Bhattacharya’s comments, and the magazine said he supported them in an email:
I maintain my comment that blockages are the worst public health mistake in the last 100 years. We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological damage, imposed on almost all poor people on the face of the earth, for a generation.
At the same time, they did not serve to control the epidemic in the places where it was most vigorously imposed. In the US, they have – at best – protected COVID’s “non-essential” class, while exposing the essential working class to disease. Blockages are drip epidemiology.
This is not a new position for Bhattacharya, who declared last May that people are “mistaken” if they believe that coronavirus blocking policies will provide security against COVID-19.
As for Wolf, she also made news on the same subject, telling Tucker Carlson of Fox News last month that America is transforming itself into a “totalitarian state before everyone’s eyes” amid our government’s coronavirus blockades: