Over 7,000 Scientists & Doctors Call for End to the Lockdowns
Oxford University professor Dr Sunetra Gupta was one of the authors of the open letter that was sent with the petition, along with Harvard University’s Dr Martin Kulldorff and Stanford’s Dr Jay Bhattacharya.
It declares that social distancing and mask mandates are causing ‘damaging physical and mental health impacts.’
The petition, dubbed the Great Barrington Declaration after the town in Massachusetts where it was written, has been signed by close to 73,000 members of the public at time of writing, as well as over 4,700 medical and public health scientists and around 3,200 medical practitioners.
“Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal,” it notes, adding “Keeping these [lockdown] measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.”
“Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health,” the declaration also declares.
It continues, “The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular [heart] 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,” the declaration adds.
“Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal, it concludes, explaining that “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,” it emphasises.
Finally, the declaration demands that normal life should resume, stating that “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.”
The declaration echoes President Trump’s words earlier this week when he returned to the White House and asked Americans not to live in fear or let let the virus dominate their everyday lives:
The declaration dovetails with other research that has concluded lockdowns will conservatively “destroy at least seven times more years of human life” than they save.
Germany’s Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Gerd Muller, has warned that lockdown measures throughout the globe will end up killing more people than the Coronavirus itself.
In an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, Muller warned that the response to the global pandemic has resulted in “one of the biggest” hunger and poverty crises in history.
Muller’s comments come five months after a leaked study from inside the German Ministry of the Interior revealed that the impact of the country’s lockdown could end up killing more people than the coronavirus due to victims of other serious illnesses not receiving treatment.
As we have previously highlighted, in the UK there have already been up to 10,000 excess deaths as a result of seriously ill people avoiding hospitals due to COVID-19 or not having their hospital treatments cancelled.
Professor Richard Sullivan also warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths in the UK than total coronavirus deaths due to people’s access to screenings and treatment being restricted as a result of the lockdown.
His comments were echoed by Peter Nilsson, a Swedish professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at Lund University, who said, “It’s so important to understand that the deaths of COVID-19 will be far less than the deaths caused by societal lockdown when the economy is ruined.”
According to Professor Karol Sikora, an NHS consultant oncologist, there could be 50,000 excess deaths from cancer as a result of routine screenings being suspended during the lockdown in the UK.
In addition, a study published in The Lancet that notes “physical distancing, school closures, trade restrictions, and country lockdowns” are worsening global child malnutrition.
Experts have also warned that there will be 1.4 million deaths globally from untreated TB infections due to the lockdown.
As we further previously highlighted, a data analyst consortium in South Africa found that the economic consequences of the country’s lockdown will lead to 29 times more people dying than the coronavirus itself.
Hundreds of doctors are also on record as opposing lockdown measures, warning that they will cause more death than the coronavirus itself.
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.
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Makena James
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Here are the craziest myths I’ve heard that everyone around here blindly accepts to be true.
1: “There is no such thing as herd immunity with this virus.” Should be obvious why this is not true. There has been herd immunity for every past virus, including the new flu mutations that come every year. How is the coronavirus any different?
2. “We acknowledge the virus spreads by aerosol, but cloth masks are magically able to contain that aerosol.” This should also be obviously a myth. Masks are not completely closed. They also have holes in them. If they were perfectly opaque, then we actually could not breathe at all in them. We’d run out of oxygen quickly. Masks are not completely closed, and so, aerosols can get around them easily as well as travel through the holes in a mask. Put on a mask and blow. Put your hand right in front of the mask. You should feel some of your air go through the mask onto your hand.
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Ed D.
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Of course you can feel the air through your mask. Air molecules are smaller than viruses.
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Colin g r
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So then put a glass in front of the mask and see it fog up.
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Rob
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If by “around here” you mean this website.. then you haven’t been paying attention to the articles posted here at all as this site has posted articles from the likes of Dr. Knut Wittowski who’s been saying since MARCH that Lockdowns were destructive and useless and that you MUST allow the population to get herd immunity. This site has also posted dozens and dozens of articles on the USELESSNESS Of masks almost from the start.
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Andy Rowlands
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The BBC reported about the Barrington Declaration yesterday, then a few hours later, the Independent reported the government had unilaterally rejected it.
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Conor Duggan
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This is from the UN themselves but I didn’t need them to tell me that school dinners play a huge part in the providing the nutritional needs of millions of low income children.
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/futures-370-million-children-jeopardy-school-closures-deprive-them-school-meals
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Dean Michael Jackson
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“…and that lockdown rules in both the US and UK are causing ‘irreparable damage’.”
That’s their purpose, of course, inclusive of ensuring our immune systems are weakened by staying home, and wearing masks (1) that increase carbon dioxide inhalation by 40x with each breath, thereby activating dormant viruses; and (2) causing one to rebreathe exhaled viruses, bacteria and fungi that will produce lung infections. and in some brain infections via the nasal olfactory nerves.
The purpose for the Marxist establishment is the “abolition of religion”, and the destruction of those civilizations “whose spiritual aroma is religion”:
Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Karl Marx (1843)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Critique_of_Hegels_Philosophy_of_Right.pdf
“The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.”
…and…
“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.”
…and…
“It is, therefore, the task of history, once the other-world of truth has vanished, to establish the truth of this world.”
Now you know what Marxists are referring to when they utter the phrase, “The Struggle”…
“The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.”
At my blog, bead the articles…
‘House of Cards: The Collapse of the ‘Collapse’ of the USSR’
‘Playing Hide And Seek In Yugoslavia’
Then read the article, ‘The Marxist Co-Option Of History And The Use Of The Scissors Strategy To Manipulate History Towards The Goal Of Marxist Liberation’
Solution
The West will form new political parties where candidates are vetted for Marxist ideology/blackmail, the use of the polygraph to be an important tool for such vetting. Then the West can finally liberate the globe of vanguard Communism.
My blog…
https://djdnotice.blogspot.com/2018/09/d-notice-articles-article-55-7418.html
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Alan
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I’m pleased to see this moving along. It looked like an insignificant gesture with just three people signing it when I first read about it. Prof Gupta stands out constantly. I noticed that in the very early days when I saw her with a panel of “experts” and she was the only one that kept to facts and did not speculate. If only the UK government had listened to her.
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Dr Roger Higgs
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The NHS advice: “Stay home to help us save lives” (photo above).
The reality: If you stay home FAR more people will die.
Thanks ‘experts’.
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Doug Harrison
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It is obvious to me that the harm being caused by this scamdemic is deliberate and planned. The planners will be feeling very pleased with themselves that they have most of the worlds governments in their pockets, cowering with fear or overcome with the opportunity to gain more permanent political power as in the UK and New Zealand.
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Tom O
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Quote –
“urging that those not in the at risk category should be able to get on with their lives as normal, and that lockdown rules in both the US and UK are causing ‘irreparable damage’.”
What the hell is this all about? I’m in the so called “risk category,” 76, and I see no reason that I can’t make my own damn decisions of whether or not I want to live a normal life as well. That should be MY decision, not one made by some numb ass bureaucrat or some wet nosed snowflake that is scared to get out of their closet. This “disease,” whatever it is, doesn’t seem to be interested in bothering with healthy people, so let us live our lives too.
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