Declaration is call to “return to public health practice supported by data and science,” says one signatory.
Six weeks after it was first published, the Great Barrington Declaration — an international pronouncement meant to shine light on what it calls the “damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies” — has garnered nearly 700,000 signatures from scientists, academics, doctors and citizens worldwide, with more signatories being added each day as a fresh spate of lockdowns continues across Europe and parts of the United States.
Regional and nationwide lockdowns have been an international feature of the COVID-19 pandemic since almost the start of the year. At the outset of the pandemic, China instituted a severe lockdown of the Hubei province where the disease first originated. Global health officials were initially skeptical of the Chinese lockdown, which went against many major established pandemic guidelines.
As the virus spread west into Europe and the United States, however, many heads of state began instituting their own lockdowns, with major countries such as Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom instituting broad stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns, school closures and other unprecedented policies in order to prevent a modeled catastrophic death toll.
Let’s wait for the kens & kerens to get on here jaw jacking about how it is your responsibility to their health than their own self and even though they have some 50k+ Doctors telling you other wise, they still show you they are slaves for tossing out all common sense… Again I will ask, why didn’t you slaves to all of this for the H1N1? ZIKA? BIRD FLU? SWINE FLU? EBOLA (based on obama bin laden said)? MERS? SARS? TERBERCULOSIS? And if this virus is so god damn bad then why to the power that be have to cook the numbers and say people who died from a gun shot wound counts as a covid case? If this virus is so god damn bad then why do they have mask exclusions zones? If this virus is so bad then why does the govt leave it up to the states to decide what to do and why do different states all do something different? And on top of that, with every state doing different things, why are the cases still going up in ALL STATES??? And how are cases going up passed the previous reported cases months ago, when most of those same people already counted, has since gotten better form said virus, yet the never took the number off of the case count, now why is that????