‘Change course and end the lockdowns’
IT is time to end the lockdowns.
Anyone who wishes to isolate, whether because they are vulnerable or for other reasons, should be supported in doing so safely.
Anyone else who wishes to resume normal life, and take the risk of catching the virus, should be free to do so. The choice should be ours.
This is what should have been done from the beginning.
The Great Barrington Declaration is a proposal written and signed at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on October 4, 2020, addressing the response to Covid.
The declaration advocates an approach the authors refer to as ‘focused protection’ based on statistical levels of risk, as opposed to blanket lockdowns.
Over 10,000 scientists and medical practitioners signed the declaration, along with over 100,000 members of the public, calling for a change of policy on lockdowns.
Also, Dr David Nabarro, the World Health Organisation’s special envoy on Covid-19, urged world leaders this week to ‘stop using lockdowns as your primary control method’ for blunting a virus surge.
“We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” he said.
Despite all this evidence that lockdowns do far more harm than good, do far more harm than Covid, Boris is ploughing on and ramping up the lockdowns instead of scrapping them.
A change of course is now long overdue.