More than 5,500 medical and public health scientists and 11,000 medical practitioners have signed the Barrington Declaration.
According to the declaration, “current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short- and long-term public health.” It concludes that “keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.” Going forward, “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.” The authors call this approach “focused protection.”
So everyone agrees to “listen to science”—17,500 versus Fauci and the scarf lady, end the nonsense. You won’t see this reported by the mainstream media.
Now WHO agrees that lockdowns are bad.
“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr. David Nabarro said to The Spectator’s Andrew Neil. “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources; protect your health workers who are exhausted. But by and large, we’d rather not do it.”
Somebody please tell the governor and all the county health people. Stop approaching this bass-ackwards.
Jan Lipski
Vandenberg Village
This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2020.