Terrifying citizens with overwhelming statistics is no help during a pandemic
Governments continue to encourage collective hysteria to promote lockdowns and ignore the more realistic Great Barrington Declaration
The paucity of diverse scientific views used in Covid-19 policymaking and the proliferation of undemocratic, quasi-scientific, untested, and coercive government decrees on the hoof, are deeply concerning and a raison d’être for popular resistance in various countries.
The predicament faced by policymakers and the victims of the pandemic was particularly highlighted by the Great Barrington Declaration, which set out an alternative solution to current approaches. It called for a smarter route to herd immunity by way of “focused protection” to avoid or minimise the economic and social harm of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns — sheltering vulnerable populations such as the elderly while letting everyone else go about their normal lives, maintaining that the lockdown harm is mentally and physically worse than the pandemic. ..
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