Great Barrington Declaration legends Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya have written an op-ed in the New York Post calling for a U.S. ‘Covid commission’ to help the country come to terms with the debacle of the last three years and learn from it. Here’s an excerpt.
When America faced the national tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding in 1986, Congress created a commission with independent outside experts, including the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. His iconic demonstration of a faulty O-ring made brittle in the cold as the cause of the Challenger disaster led to fundamental reforms at NASA.
The American people deserve a similar bipartisan, scientifically minded COVID-19 commission so the public-health disaster of the past three years is not repeated.
Due to insufficient protection of older people — whose Covid-mortality risk is more than 1,000-fold higher than that of the young — official counts attribute more than one million deaths to Covid in the United States and almost seven million worldwide. Though people vehemently disagreed about the wisdom of lockdowns, school closures, vaccine mandates and discrimination, masks and so much else, there is near-universal agreement that what we did failed.
By early 2022, about 95% of Americans had contracted Covid despite the harsh countermeasures. A John Hopkins University meta-analysis concluded that lockdowns failed to contain the spread of Covid. At best, they temporarily protected the laptop class, who could work from home while being served by the working class.
The pandemic response itself has wrought tremendous collateral harm. There is now broad agreement that the school closures — in some states running a year or more — have set kids behind in ways that will lead them to worse outcomes as adults, including shorter, poorer lives.
One peer-reviewed paper estimated the spring 2020 closures alone may have cost American children millions of years in life expectancy. The damages are unequally distributed, with poor and minority children suffering the worst learning losses. Hundreds of thousands of kids never returned when schools finally opened.
So the American people deserve answers to fundamental questions about the pandemic. On what empirical basis were schools closed? Did public-health decision-makers consider the harms of their policies? Why do American public-health authorities insist on masking children as young as two years old when mask wearing “makes little or no difference” for Covid’s spread?
Perhaps the most perplexing sin of the public-health establishment is that it abandoned an essential commitment to science. For instance, why did public-health authorities ignore clear scientific data that Covid infection-acquired immunity is stronger than vaccine-acquired immunity? Vaccine mandates forced many frontline workers — heroes who contracted Covid early in the pandemic while doing essential work — to choose between their careers and a vaccine that provides less protection than the natural immunity they already had. University presidents forced young male students, including those with excellent immunity from a prior Covid infection, to accept an elevated risk of myocarditis as the price of a college education.
Kulldorff and Bhattacharya draw attention to the Norfolk Group document they have produced with six colleagues, which they describe as a “blueprint with 80 pages of questions that such a commission should ask”.
Worth reading in full.
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The world needs a truth Commission! But who will be doing the commissioning? The usual lying suspects?
The xi Biden ‘Truth’ Commission.
“Brought to you by Zelensky, Pfizer, PFauci, PFake $cience, CDC and ‘Doctor’ Jill Biden”
Conclusion: Trillions of lives were saved by the LDs and Stabby Jabby’s.
The power of the vested interests with an incentive to cover up the truth is immense – not the least of which is that a lot of ordinary people were fooled and won’t want to be reminded of it. So I fear any commission is unlikely to get to the “truth” and that some kind of wishy washy verdict will be returned that will enable people to “move on”. I don’t want there to be a “moving on”. In some ways I would rather the truth continues to drip out and the climbdowns continue.
The NASA enquiry was related to one specific project/incident, not questioning the entire establishment, including the security establishment.
I fear it will be even worse than moving on.
They will declare the Rona Fascism a grand success.
More mRNA they will declare. Magix elixirs to cure everything from being ugly to coping with the climate thingy.
They are already planning round 2 aren’t they.
There’s a lot of pushback in the US; don’t think they would get away with it.
The left owns all of thethree letter agencies- to dissent will be domestic terrorism.
Whilst I hope you are right, I am not aware that ANYONE has yrt been held to account for their lies and obvious corruption.
A very bad sign.
Indeed.
Nobody I am aware of.
Maybe just the history books.
I haven’t heard from Dr Sunetra Gupta in ages. Does anyone know what she’s up to? She used to be very prominent in giving interviews and such but now it’s just her two GBD colleagues that pop up with any regularity. Seems her twitter hasn’t been used since Aug 2022 either. It’s like she’s fallen off the face of the earth.
What we need and want is Nuremberg style tribunals to try for crimes against Humanity.
I’ll settle for mobile gallows.
The problem remains that there is nobody that I trust
We had a Truth Commission for the First World War and look what that caused.
What we need is the truth.
“….more than one million deaths to Covid in the United States and almost seven million worldwide ….”
almost seven million worldwide …. died of any cause within 28 days of a fake PCR test”
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7 million people across the world died from Covid? A mere drop in the ocean compared with the “Spanish” flu which killed 50 million or more after the First World War when the world’s population stood at around two and a half billion. And predominantly young people were afflicted by it compared to the elderly this time round.
Great idea. Let’s put Senator Rand Paul in charge of it.
Oh wait ….. he wouldn’t reach the “correct” conclusion.
Amen.