The lockdown strategy has explicitly induced fear of COVID in the population, without regard to the greater risk older vulnerable populations face.
They have suffered far more adverse outcomes from COVID and the lockdowns than the laptop class of professionals who stayed at home without financial hardship during the pandemic.Ī rational COVID strategy would also significantly improve the mental health of all people, everywhere. Such a strategy would help minorities and the poor, who have also been silenced in the current debate. For them, the COVID restrictions cause many more problems than COVID itself. A more level-headed strategy would emphasize keeping schools open and letting younger members of our society – who have no voice in the concerns of the day – get back to their lives.
Once we recalibrate our viewpoint and accept the scientific fact that COVID is indeed an age-stratified disease, we can use our resources far more wisely.
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Hospitalizations and deaths overwhelmingly occur in the population over the age of 65 – so much that the risk of death after infection is thousands of times greater than for school children, the vast majority of whom have mild cases of COVID if infected, with full recovery. The GBD advocates understanding that large-scale containment of a highly contagious respiratory virus is impossible, and society should instead use its resources to protect those most at risk. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed the GBD, including tens of thousands of medical doctors and scientists. The release of the GBD shattered the notion that there was a scientific consensus in favor of lockdowns. The principles underlying the GBD are relevant today as the world transitions toward a saner, more rational, more sustainable, and more humane COVID policy.Ī year ago, on October 4, 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was released for support signatures to the public. The anniversary is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the devastating health and societal consequences of the lockdown and COVID-restriction policy, followed by so many governments worldwide. The Declaration is built around the concept of focused protection – using resources to protect people in the society most at-risk from COVID while avoiding the large-scale social and economic consequences of “one-size-fits-all” lockdowns. Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford Medical School, is marking its one-year anniversary this week. The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD), authored by Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford, Martin Kulldorff, Harvard University, and Prof.
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