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Over 6,000 scientists and doctors have signed a petition - The Great Barrington Declaration - supporting an end to the Wuhan virus lockdown strategies and in favor of a strategy promoting herd immunity, which is of course the usual way that humans have developed broad societal immunity to viruses like this one over the millennia.
The petition, which is named the Great Barrington Declaration after the town in Massachusetts it was signed in, was written on October 4 and has signatures from at least 2,826 medical and public health scientists, 3,794 medical practitioners and over 60,000 members of the general public.
"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," the petition says in its opening line. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health."
The petition goes on to talk about the goal of achieving herd immunity, which the authors believe will minimize the risk of infection to all, "including the vulnerable."
"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 petition says. "We call this Focused Protection."
Clearly "the debate" is not over.
Science is not just what the Democrat left mob howls about in their most fearful or most enraged moments. Science is a process, and all of these scientists are making a very critical point that needs to be respected.
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Thanks for posting! This declaration was led by leading epidemiologists from Oxford, Harvard and Stanford. It's not just herd immunity per se, there's a strong component of Focused Protection of the vulnerable population.
So now that 'the science' has spoken, anyone who promotes the lockdown approach needs to to be labelled 'anti-science'.
Over 6,000 scientists and doctors have signed a petition - The Great Barrington Declaration - supporting an end to the Wuhan virus lockdown strategies and in favor of a strategy promoting herd immunity, which is of course the usual way that humans have developed broad societal immunity to viruses like this one over the millennia.
Clearly "the debate" is not over.
Science is not just what the Democrat left mob howls about in their most fearful or most enraged moments. Science is a process, and all of these scientists are making a very critical point that needs to be respected.
Other than the massive death rate that comes with herd immunity, there is the lasting damage that is done to so many people. And they will all be considered preexisting conditions if the ACA is removed. This would be devastating for our country.
You realize, then, that it's not just scientists and doctors signing it, so the title of your thread is an error?
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