3/4/2023 0 Comments Barrington declarationIt is also likely that any future national or local interventions will be lighter than the full one we saw in the UK last spring, mainly because we know a lot more about the virus. But the thing is we haven’t been in a lockdown like that since mid-June, a point that seems to be lost on these fuckwits. Yes, lockdowns do have those effects on healthcare outcomes and the economy. The crux of their argument is that lockdown policies have significant adverse effects on other health outcomes and on the economy, so we should be shielding the vulnerable from infection while letting the virus rip through everyone else who will likely have a mild disease. So an ideal location to propose a strategy that would cause countless unnecessary deaths and untold misery. Great Barrington, where the outfit behind this nonsense is based, is a well-to-do town in western Massachusetts that has had fewer than five cases of COVID-19 and an average daily incidence rate per 100,000 of zero. If you’ve missed the ‘declaration’, please allow me to summarise it for you: The American Institute for Economic Research – who authored the ‘declaration’ – is proposing ‘ focused protection‘ for the elderly and vulnerable to allow the rest of society to return to normal life and build up herd immunity. They’re reporting it as a political story and ignoring the real one. On this story no one is ‘following the money’ and looking at the organisation behind the ‘declaration’, or even critically evaluating the science. Writing about rubbish science reporting has become a recurring theme for me, especially when the BBC politicises science stories with apparently zero editorial oversight, or in this case gullibly repeats US libertarian propaganda posing as a science story. This is based on lazy and credulous reporting of the so-called Great Barrington Declaration, which is a product of a right-wing libertarian economic think tank and has little to do with science.
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