60’000 Scientists Demand an End to Mass Vaccinations

While increasingly absurd measures are being taken around the world to combat the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, more and more voices are being raised against the utterly misguided health policies of the authorities.

Under threat of having their health pass revoked, people are being given the third vaccine dose! The focus has now shifted to vaccinating children between the ages of 5 and 11 — a decision that many doctors and researchers consider to be extremely serious.

Serious Side Effects

Mass vaccination with a still-experimental messenger RNA vaccine has long been a concern within the scientific community. As early as October 2020, three senior scientists — Prof. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — outlined an alternative approach to Covid-19 in the so-called Great Barrington Declaration. They are deeply concerned about the side effects of mass vaccination on the general population.

What do they advocate? «Targeted» protection. That is, to protect the elderly, the vulnerable, and the frail as much as possible, and to let everyone else live normally until society achieves a collective natural immunity that is comprehensive, robust, and long-lasting.However, mass vaccination with mRNA renders this collective immunity impossible, and thus the pandemic will not be sustainably brought to an end.

One of the original co-signatories was Dr. Simon Thornley, an epidemiologist and biostatistician at the University of Auckland. The Great Barrington Declaration has since been signed by 60’000 doctors and scientists and is becoming increasingly well known worldwide. A petition has so far collected 870’000 signatures of support.

The Great Barrington Declaration

As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we are deeply concerned about the damaging effects of prevailing COVID-19 policies on physical and mental health, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.

Coming from both the left and the right, and having dedicated our careers to protecting people, we have grave concerns about the short- and long-term impacts of the prevailing lockdown policies, which will lead to excess mortality in the coming years, with the working class and younger members of society bearing the greatest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that the risk of dying from COVID-19 is more than a thousand times higher in the elderly and frail than in the young. Indeed, COVID-19 is less dangerous for children than many other illnesses, including influenza.

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection declines for all – including the vulnerable. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – that is, the point at which the rate of new infections is stable. Our goal should therefore be to minimise mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity is to allow those at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally, so that they can build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at the highest risk. We call this focused protection.

Protecting vulnerable individuals should be the central goal of healthcare responses to COVID-19. For example, care homes should employ staff with acquired immunity and conduct frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retirees living at home should have food and other essential items delivered to their door. Where possible, they should meet family members outdoors rather than indoors. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches for multigenerational households, can be implemented and is well within the capabilities of public health professionals.

Those who are not at risk should immediately be able to resume their normal lives. Simple hygiene measures, such as washing hands and staying home when sick, should be practiced by everyone in order to lower the threshold for herd immunity. Schools and universities should be open for in-person instruction. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should resume. Young adults at low risk should work normally and not from home. Restaurants and other businesses should reopen. Arts, music, sport, and other cultural activities should resume. People who are at higher risk may choose to participate if they wish, while society as a whole benefits from the protection afforded to the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.