I thought I would re-visit the Great Barrington Declaration to see how the document holds after more than a year since it was published. I first read the document about 7 months ago.
The Declaration in part laid out a plan that utilized unvaccinated covid protected health workers. I wrote this piece talking about the whole Declaration.
The Great Barrington Declaration was authored and signed on October 4, 2020. The signers were Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. It laid out a plan for dealing with covid. If you have not read it here is a link.
From the declaration,
“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.”
We have seen all of these prediction come to pass. The working class and younger people we know are less prone to a harmful covid disease because of their age. However, they are the most affected by the massive shutdown of the economic drivers of our society. Service industries, food preparation, delivery, and transportation systems have been shut down affecting access to necessary goods to many more people. People are out of work; people are not able to get proper health care as hospitals are always waiting, waiting for the covid patients who may never arrive. So many of the deaths that had been attributed to covid were not caused by covid at all. Here is a report from England and Wales that says just 6,000 people died of covid instead of the 150,000 number reported earlier by the government.
Children have been out of school or in school wearing harmful masks and have an increasing level of mental health issues. Teacher Stacey Lance wrote,
“Our students were taught to think of their schools as hubs for infection and themselves as vectors of disease. This has fundamentally altered their understanding of themselves.”
The Declaration covered the likelihood of serious disease with this statement.
“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.”
The Declaration continues,
“keeping these measures (containment) in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage”
We know now that the vaccine didn’t curtail government containment policies so they continued to cause untold damage.
The declaration said,
“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.”
We will never know what the overall effect of vaccines but now we know that they likely had little beneficial effects. James Stanbury talks about their “negative efficacy” and that,
“While you may get a benefit for earlier variants (from vaccines), the benefit for other variants (and likely other diseases) is going to be negative. In short, you are getting a short term benefit against Delta, but at the expense of a degradation of your overall immunity to everything else.”
The Barrington declaration is correct in saying that health stability and immunity is not dependent on a vaccine.
It goes on to declare,
“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 know that those who are not vulnerable recover quickly from covid and if they have not been vaccinated their immunity is better. If we had put most of our care and energy into protecting the vulnerable and not wasted so much money, energy and professional time and worry on the masses, then the vulnerable would have been better served. It is difficult to find information on Intensive care units filling up and overflowing. I have only heard of a few. I know in Canada the province of Saskatchewan did have an overflow in their ICU. They are a province of a million people and have only 79 ICU beds. I don’t think it is just covid that is causing trouble in our hospitals. I have been to the emergency ward of my hospital a number of times prior to covid where there had been 7 or 8 patients in beds or chairs in the hallway.
We also know now that if other low cost treatments, like ivermectin, had been used that hospitalizations would have been much less. Stephanie Brail found information about ivermectin use in India. India has had many fewer deaths that the first world countries.
The Barrington Declaration goes on to talk about ways to protect the vulnerable; one way is to use staff that has acquired immunity. As we know much of the North American way is to fire the unvaccinated workers, even though they are the ones who could naturally became immune with covid recovery.
The Declaration states that life should not have changed for those who are not vulnerable. If they are sick they stay home. Everything stays open; all business can continue to operate. People can work from home but non-risk people should continue to go to work. This is a wise, prudent, rational, and loving approach, an approach that wouldn’t have fear mongering attached to it, and it wouldn’t have sparked the terrible way the unvaccinated have been treated.
One thing I greatly admire Barrington approach is shown with this statement,
“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.”
The vulnerable may participate it they wish. They can decide for themselves whether to see their families and friends or not. They will not be at the mercy of the state deciding for them what the state thinks I the best course.
I don’t see anything in The Great Barrington Declaration that doesn’t hit the bull’s eye.
In your third paragraph, you have a parenthesis: "(which is extremely misleading considering how many vaccinations occurred during this period)." I believe you mean "...how many CASES occurred..." as it is DURING the first 14 days of vaccination.
The data is slowly leaking out!
On a similar note:
Only 6,183 people died solely of COVID-19 in England & Wales
And only 833 under 60s.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/only-6183-people-died-solely-of-covid
I thought I would re-visit the Great Barrington Declaration to see how the document holds after more than a year since it was published. I first read the document about 7 months ago.
The Declaration in part laid out a plan that utilized unvaccinated covid protected health workers. I wrote this piece talking about the whole Declaration.
The Great Barrington Declaration was authored and signed on October 4, 2020. The signers were Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. It laid out a plan for dealing with covid. If you have not read it here is a link.
From the declaration,
“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.”
We have seen all of these prediction come to pass. The working class and younger people we know are less prone to a harmful covid disease because of their age. However, they are the most affected by the massive shutdown of the economic drivers of our society. Service industries, food preparation, delivery, and transportation systems have been shut down affecting access to necessary goods to many more people. People are out of work; people are not able to get proper health care as hospitals are always waiting, waiting for the covid patients who may never arrive. So many of the deaths that had been attributed to covid were not caused by covid at all. Here is a report from England and Wales that says just 6,000 people died of covid instead of the 150,000 number reported earlier by the government.
Children have been out of school or in school wearing harmful masks and have an increasing level of mental health issues. Teacher Stacey Lance wrote,
“Our students were taught to think of their schools as hubs for infection and themselves as vectors of disease. This has fundamentally altered their understanding of themselves.”
The Declaration covered the likelihood of serious disease with this statement.
“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.”
The Declaration continues,
“keeping these measures (containment) in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage”
We know now that the vaccine didn’t curtail government containment policies so they continued to cause untold damage.
The declaration said,
“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.”
We will never know what the overall effect of vaccines but now we know that they likely had little beneficial effects. James Stanbury talks about their “negative efficacy” and that,
“While you may get a benefit for earlier variants (from vaccines), the benefit for other variants (and likely other diseases) is going to be negative. In short, you are getting a short term benefit against Delta, but at the expense of a degradation of your overall immunity to everything else.”
The Barrington declaration is correct in saying that health stability and immunity is not dependent on a vaccine.
It goes on to declare,
“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 know that those who are not vulnerable recover quickly from covid and if they have not been vaccinated their immunity is better. If we had put most of our care and energy into protecting the vulnerable and not wasted so much money, energy and professional time and worry on the masses, then the vulnerable would have been better served. It is difficult to find information on Intensive care units filling up and overflowing. I have only heard of a few. I know in Canada the province of Saskatchewan did have an overflow in their ICU. They are a province of a million people and have only 79 ICU beds. I don’t think it is just covid that is causing trouble in our hospitals. I have been to the emergency ward of my hospital a number of times prior to covid where there had been 7 or 8 patients in beds or chairs in the hallway.
We also know now that if other low cost treatments, like ivermectin, had been used that hospitalizations would have been much less. Stephanie Brail found information about ivermectin use in India. India has had many fewer deaths that the first world countries.
The Barrington Declaration goes on to talk about ways to protect the vulnerable; one way is to use staff that has acquired immunity. As we know much of the North American way is to fire the unvaccinated workers, even though they are the ones who could naturally became immune with covid recovery.
The Declaration states that life should not have changed for those who are not vulnerable. If they are sick they stay home. Everything stays open; all business can continue to operate. People can work from home but non-risk people should continue to go to work. This is a wise, prudent, rational, and loving approach, an approach that wouldn’t have fear mongering attached to it, and it wouldn’t have sparked the terrible way the unvaccinated have been treated.
One thing I greatly admire Barrington approach is shown with this statement,
“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.”
The vulnerable may participate it they wish. They can decide for themselves whether to see their families and friends or not. They will not be at the mercy of the state deciding for them what the state thinks I the best course.
I don’t see anything in The Great Barrington Declaration that doesn’t hit the bull’s eye.
I think we have discovered the reason why public education has been so intent on discontinuing math as a subject of learning over the past few years.
If your cult followers can't count, it no longer even matters what the numbers actually are.
Good job.... and, I'd rather die than get bells palsy.
In your third paragraph, you have a parenthesis: "(which is extremely misleading considering how many vaccinations occurred during this period)." I believe you mean "...how many CASES occurred..." as it is DURING the first 14 days of vaccination.
Not that it IS a vaccination.
We need to buy them an old fashioned calculus board