Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the news during the last few days because of some interesting comments he made about COVID-19 lockdowns. However, no-one has reminded him about the Great Barrington Declaration that he used the mainstream media to quash.

The Great Barrington Declaration was an open letter published in October 2020 that criticised the COVID-19 lockdowns. The letter was signed by Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, a professor at Oxford University, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor.

Dr. Martin Kulldorff is a biostatistician. Dr. Sunetra Gupta is an infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology. Dr Jay Bhattacharya is one of the world's leading experts on public health policy. We might have thought that under normal circumstances three professors from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford, with experience that is directly relevant, would have been listened to during the pandemic. But these are not normal times. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

The Great Barrington Declaration called for an easing of lockdowns. The authors had the opinion that the lockdowns would eventually cause more harm than good, and there would be an increase in mortality in years to come. It called for measures to protect the vulnerable but to allow everyone else to continue life relatively normally.

After the declaration was published, Anthony Fauci and colleagues went into action to use the media to quash it.

Dr. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health sent an email to Dr. Fauci, which read:

“This proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists . . . seems to be getting a lot of attention – and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford. There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises.”

Dr. Fauci replied to Dr. Collins that the takedown was underway. Various media organisations were then triggered to follow Lord Fauci’s demands. For example, Wired magazine published an article to dismiss the Great Barrington Declaration by writing:

“Aside from the three lead signatories, there is little about the Great Barrington Declaration that feels convincingly scientific. Not its website, which boasts that the statement has been signed by 2,780 Medical and Public Health Scientists”

It’s interesting to note that the 2,780 signatures in October 2020 has now grown to more than 932,800 signatures.

In October 2020 any mention of the Great Barrington Declaration was also censored on social media platforms.

Back then, many of us ordinary folk were also asking questions like why the decision to lockdown had not included an estimation of the harms of the lockdowns?

In recent months these harms have started to come to light in the most diabolical way. Data from all around the world is showing a mysterious increase in excess deaths that are not from COVID-19 itself.

We don’t know yet how many of these excess deaths are attributable to the lockdowns and how many are attributable to the COVID vaccines. However, there have been all kinds of other health-related and economy-related negative effects of the lockdowns. Such as, a 77 percent increase in type 2 diabetes in youths.

The weight of public opinion has finally shifted. It is no longer even remotely possible to suggest that the lockdowns were a good thing. That’s why Anthony Fauci made this statement recently at the Atlantic Ideas Festival:

“Sometimes when you do draconian things it has collateral negative consequences just like when you shut things down, even temporarily, it does have deleterious consequences on the economy, the school children, you know that.”

Well, we can fight Fauci with this:

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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