Fri Feb 25, 2022 – 2:54 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — To hear Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford put it, there was nothing revolutionary about the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement he authored with Martin Kulldorff of Harvard and Sunetra Gupta of Oxford on why COVID-19 lockdowns were the wrong approach.
“We had a pandemic plan that worked for 100 years for respiratory pathogens,” said Bhattacharya. “The Great Barrington Declaration wasn’t a unique idea. The lockdowns were.”
In a podcast interview with The Heartland Institute, Bhattacharya reflected on the Declaration nearly 17 months after it was published and took the world by storm. Today it has been signed by over 925,000 scientists, medical practitioners, and members of the public. Its message is now starting to be acknowledged by countries, states, and cities as they lift their pandemic mandates. Public leaders have claimed the “science” has changed but Bhattacharya doesn’t see anything today that’s new, or different.
“The fundamental thing has not changed. The fundamental thing is that there is this big age-grading in the risk, so we still should be focusing on protecting the vulnerable, older people and people with chronic conditions,” said Bhattacharya. “The other thing about
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