In the course of just 4 days since release, 4,700 medical and public health scientists, 8,838 medical Practitioners and 123,298 members of the general public have signed The Great Barrington Declaration. ⁃ TN Editor
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.
Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.
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Ail
October 8, 2020 3:06 pm
It’s interesting how they have so in those genetically modified products called vaccines.
a virus often integrates its own genetic information in with the host, but when it’s a Genetically modified organism type strain of virus it all depends on what they add to it, and what’s stopping them adding something to a virus strain for nefarious reasons? The people that often own pharmaceutical companies are eugenicists, technocratic and very pro depopulation so lowered vaccination rates might actually be a good thing 👍
Dave Walton
October 9, 2020 12:23 am
From a friend/researcher: The recent letter to the government opposing the lockdown (The Barrington Declaration) and again asking for Herd Immunity came from an American think tank connected to Koch Industries named the AIER – American Institute for Economic Research – the Devos family (who were behind the anti lockdown protests in Michigan) sit on the board. These Drs 9The Barrington declaration) met with Alex Azar the US Secretary of Health and Heritage Foundation member before they published. The chief Dr is Sunetra Gupta who is backed by not only the AIER but the UKs Nudge Unit – Behavioural Insight.… Read more »
OAN is now being sensored by high tech and oligarch corporations like Direct TV. They are trying to silence these brave and critical thinking Scientists, Doctors and Epidemiologists. I stand with the Great Barrington Agreement.
It’s interesting how they have so in those genetically modified products called vaccines.
a virus often integrates its own genetic information in with the host, but when it’s a Genetically modified organism type strain of virus it all depends on what they add to it, and what’s stopping them adding something to a virus strain for nefarious reasons? The people that often own pharmaceutical companies are eugenicists, technocratic and very pro depopulation so lowered vaccination rates might actually be a good thing 👍
From a friend/researcher: The recent letter to the government opposing the lockdown (The Barrington Declaration) and again asking for Herd Immunity came from an American think tank connected to Koch Industries named the AIER – American Institute for Economic Research – the Devos family (who were behind the anti lockdown protests in Michigan) sit on the board. These Drs 9The Barrington declaration) met with Alex Azar the US Secretary of Health and Heritage Foundation member before they published. The chief Dr is Sunetra Gupta who is backed by not only the AIER but the UKs Nudge Unit – Behavioural Insight.… Read more »
OAN is now being sensored by high tech and oligarch corporations like Direct TV. They are trying to silence these brave and critical thinking Scientists, Doctors and Epidemiologists. I stand with the Great Barrington Agreement.