Pandemic absurdities: Firing people with natural immunity after Covid recovery, even though they are the least likely to spread Covid to others. 🧵 1/∞ brownstone.org/articles/hospi…
Pandemic absurdities: How some scientists, like NIH director Collins and Fauci, thought that you promote science by silencing scientists through “published takedowns”. 🧵2/∞ brownstone.org/articles/the-c…
Pandemic absurdities: School closures. Putting the hardest and most damaging restrictions on those with the lowest risk and miniscule Covid mortality. 🧵3/∞ brownstone.org/articles/hurti…
The coordinated media campaign against the Great Barrington Declaration claimed that it lacked specific proposals for protecting the old. Please read excerpts below and judge. More people would be alive today if more of these had been implemented. 1/9 gbdeclaration.org
"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 testing of other staff and all visitors .. " - @gbdeclaration 2/9
" .. 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 .." -@gbdeclaration 3/9
Unfortunately, @JeremyFarrar won the UK pandemic policy fight. Now he is trying to evade responsibility for the biggest public health mistake in history, with too many COVID deaths among the old and workers, and enormous collateral public health damage on children and adults. 2/5
Moreover, @JeremyFarrar is making false accusations against @SunetraGupta. Either he is deliberately distorting her science, or, he never bothered to read her papers and the @gbdeclaration, instead basing his slander on the inaccurate writings in e.g. the @guardian. 3/5
@drjenndowd@VPrasadMDMPH@melindacmills@BillHanage Vaccines are great for focused protection if we prioritize older high-risk people and their care takers, like Florida. To minimize deaths, we must also urgently improve protection of the old through standard public health measures listed in the @gbdeclaration & FAQ. 2/8
@drjenndowd@VPrasadMDMPH@melindacmills@BillHanage@gbdeclaration Nursing home residents have highest risk, but <1% of US population. People >60 who should work from home or take short sabbaticals are fewer than those currently working from home. There are many retirees, but protecting them with e.g. grocery deliveries is relatively easy. 3/8
#3 Public health is about everyone. It should not be used to shift the burden of disease from the affluent to the less affluent, as the #COVID19#lockdowns have done. torontosun.com/opinion/column…