19 April

I suspect many have not heard of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). In October 2020 a group of ‘scientists’ signed a short statement suggesting a way out of the Covid pandemic. The Covid ‘strategy’ we’re following today is pure GBD. Here was their idea. They said we should just protect ‘the vulnerable’, and let everybody else get back to normal life, building up immunity with vaccinations and infections. Which would then lead to herd immunity i.e. the end of the pandemic, as everybody being immune would stop Covid from spreading. Sound familiar? They called it ‘focused protection’ i.e protecting the vulnerable, while letting everybody else go back to normal. And how long did they say this process would take? 3-6 months. It’s now almost 4 YEARS later, and Covid has grown, not gone away. The vulnerable have died in the millions. It was bullshit, scientifically. Sponsored by the Koch network, billionaire Americans who sponsor much of the opposition to climate change action as well, including a lot of the anti-EV and anti-renewables slogans people regurgitate here.