Imagine there hadn't been an @NIH-led "devastating takedown" of the @gbdeclaration in Oct 2020. Imagine no media/social media suppression. We would have won the policy argument. Schools would have opened. We would have prioritized protection of the vulnerable. Instead, lockdowns.
@DrJBhattacharya @NIH @gbdeclaration I openly critized GBD without anyone telling me to do it. Protection of the vulnerables makes no sense. We would have had more deaths
@DrJBhattacharya @NIH @gbdeclaration Many of these vulnerable would have wanted to make a consent decision to their life's. My neighbour died alone in an inhuman medical system, surrounded by people he did not know. PS: Shortly before he died his watch got stolen in his locked down "covid prison" care home.
@DrJBhattacharya @NIH @gbdeclaration We need to personally sue those who performed the suppression
@DrJBhattacharya @NIH @gbdeclaration While your point is fair, the issue is NIH driven + govt suppression. The social media suppression was quite ancillary, though still unwelcome (but it is a hard job). Unfortunately, the rage is being directed against Twitter while it should be directed at govts.
@DrJBhattacharya @NIH @gbdeclaration GBD, and initially the WHO response, were the only sane voices. CDC and NIH (with social media tech support) won the day, and my deaf nephew spent two and a half CRITICAL early development years being punished for pulling down his mask in "school."
@DrJBhattacharya @NIH @gbdeclaration Yep. As an early signer of the GB Declaration, I thought I was losing the debate on social media because my arguments weren't persuasive. My reader numbers kept falling (after initially surging). Voices of fearmongering, non-expert, professionals gained volume. Now I know why.
@DrJBhattacharya @NIH @gbdeclaration Much of the inflation we are experiencing now is a result of shutdowns disrupting production and the government transfer payments to make up for lost income.