This guy was on the money with his analysis from day one, including saying at the start that many, many, many more people would be getting infected. But because he disagreed with the “solutions” being proposed, he was apparently getting deleted/blacked out/whatever on various social media. Then the Great Barrington declaration was put out, and again discredited because of some nutjob signatures on it (put there by who?, a conspiracy acknowledger would say). From the article:
authors of the declaration – Sunetra Gupta, of Oxford University, Jay Bhattacharya, of Stanford University, and Martin Kulldorff, of Harvard University – argue that Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions are having “devastating effects” on public health by disrupting routine care and harming mental health, with the underprivileged bearing the greatest burden.
While many governments are trying to suppress the virus until new treatments and vaccines are found, the trio write that older people and others at risk should be shielded while those in the least danger should “immediately be allowed to resume life as normal”.
Note the “shaming” language used to discredit opposing points of view at the time. Heck, we had “respected” posters on this site telling us skeptics of the “solutions” that we were insert denier descriptor here. From the article:
a Twitter thread responding to the declaration, Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist at Yale University, said shutdowns and other interventions were necessary to reduce rates of infection. With nearly half of the population having some underlying health risk for Covid-19, he said herd immunity strategies were about “culling the herd of the sick and disabled. It’s grotesque.
That title is pretty egregious. They only put Jew in the title for the clicks even though he clearly says the Chinese are less susceptible as well.
He was referencing this study which does show COVID impacts population disproportionately. It is; however, unfortunate that he is quick to go down the conspiracy theory road. I doubt COVID is a bio weapon specifically targeting certain ethnicities.
I think these trans men (born females) are defeating their own purpose. In their view, they are real men regardless of being born female, so is this a way of saying that they can still be considered women? Thus, no one who calls them signora could be accused of misgendering?
