Having RFK Jr., Jay Bhattacharya, Dave Weldon ( an antivaxxer who will head the CDC) and Marty Makary in charge of US public health reads like a horror novel, or a plot decided by Putin to destroy America.
It really does. Kids are going to die from measles. We are going to see polio reemerge. And if the current bird flu actually makes the jump to humans we are so screwed. The long any other viruses that come along. Still can't believe 170 million people wanted this.
One long stream of lies issuing from the mouth of Jay Bhattacharya. He says he was silenced throughout the pandemic. Millions of children were out of school for years? Wtf is he talking about? 100 million people face starvation because of the economic devastation caused by lockdowns? Liar.
The GBD was based on the assumption that the real problem of the pandemic wasn’t the virus that was killing and disabling people. No, the real problem was the people who were ruining everyone else’s fun by getting killed and disabled by it.
I am so sorry. I understand the hiding in one’s house. That’s afflicted a lot of us, even those without Long Covid. I hope you recover quickly and completely.
I recovered completely from the long covid about nine months ago, thank you. 😊 I imagine it’s rather like getting out of a body cast — the recovery is done, and the rehabilitation begins. Which has been hard. But a far better kind of hard than before.
Sorry. He just admitted he would have imposed lockdowns. Say it ain’t so, Jay. He was the arch-enemy of lockdowns from the beginning. Are the Great Barrington Declaration. Infect them all!!
I’ll say it again. The only good things that come from Great Barrington are, in no specific order, the gourmet cheese shop that stocks Jersey Blue, the Sushi restaurant around the corner and the plethora of marijuana dispensaries in this libertarian paradise.
Suggestions: Napoleon’s insult of Talleyrand in modern terms: “une merde dans un costume en polyester bon marché” (a turd in a cheap polyester suit); a steaming, fly-covered, maggot-ridden, pile; an uncapped, overflowing, septic tank.
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I turned 42 this year. Out of the last five years, I spent 13 months largely hiding in my house, and 21 months struggling with long covid.
The “society would be better off without you” message championed by people like Dr. Bhattacharya was loud, clear, and horrifying.