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“You’re Wrong! . . . Shut Up!”


These days it seems that there is no room for disagreement. If one disagrees with the prevailing opinion, then he/she is vilified and slandered. There is no room for any discussion . . . “If you disagree with me, go to hell. You’re wrong! Shut up. No, there will not be any discussion. The matter has already been settled.”

The best example in recent years is that of “man made global warming.” One somewhat erudite discussion group that I belong to would not allow an anti- man made global warming speaker to present a different side to the “accepted science” of man made global warming. (“You’re wrong. We are right. Shut up. There is no need for any discussion on the topic.”)

With this Covid pandemic we are seeing a similar pattern : “We are right and you’re wrong. Shut up. End of discussion.” I do agree that some things, like social distancing, seem to be common sense. It would seem logical that the farther one stays away from other people, the less likely one is to get the infection from another person. However, where did the magical six feet come from? In Europe it is one meter, the equivalent of about three feet. Do droplets travel less of a distance in Europe?

Lockdowns? If anyone has the audacity to disagree with lockdowns or masks . . . “you are a mean anti-social person that wishes harm to others. You’re wrong. Shut up. We do not need or want your opinion. Anyone who opposes lockdowns or the constant wearing of masks is  dangerous.”

The latest “we are right, you’re wrong, no discussion is needed” is against the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration, which is, in essence, a statement written by three public health experts from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford. It encourages governments to lift lockdown restrictions on young and healthy people while focusing protection measures on the elderly. This would allow COVID-19 to spread in a population where it is less likely to be deadly. The authors state that this would encourage widespread immunity that is not dependent on a vaccine.

These three epidemiologists have been vilified not only by the press, but also by other medical professionals that do not agree with them.(“Despite the fact that you are three distinguished epidemiologists, you are wrong. Shut up!”)

One of the main authors states that lockdown restrictions violate two main tenets of public health (from the WSJ):

  • You cannot just look at Covid but must look holistically at health and evaluate collateral damage,for example, worsening incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as an alarming decline in immunizations world wide.
  • You cannot just look at the short term; we will be dealing with these long term lockdown consequences for a very long time.

The proponents of government lockdowns in the name of protecting the public from dangerous ideas will not open up the topic to scientific discourse. (“We are right. You’re wrong. No discussion is needed. Shut up.”) 

What is very interesting is that the WHO, just within the last few weeks, has reversed its stance and has come out against lockdowns. I have seen neither this latest WHO statement nor a summary of The Great Barrington Declaration in my local “newspaper.”

Furthermore, as an aside, this is the issue I have with the all-knowing Dr. Fauci. He is only considering Covid from the morbidity and the mortality due to the virus itself. As best I can ascertain he does not consider any of the ancillary damage that comes from his one size fits all policies. It seems to me that he has put on blinders to any of the obvious ancillary damage that comes from his stringent views, and that is why, at this point, I think that he has outlived his usefulness. 

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