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They put the case well for what should have been the approach to the pandemic at the outset, namely what was then and before the accepted approach to pandemics, protect the vulnerable.
Gigi talks of QALY — Quality of Adjusted Life Years — a measure used to allocate scarce resources to society-level health care. I also wrote about it very early on, but the concept, important as it was and remains, was ignored. Lockdowns it was, and costs be damned. These costs, psychological and monetary, are starting to come due. Look at the UK, for the damage Covid-accrued debt is doing to future generations who will have to repay it.
It’s a great discussion. I just wish John had drilled down a bit more on why Francis Collins and Tony Fauci were determined to crush the Barrington declaration, instead of having it debated. I know one answer might be “it’s an emergency. We can’t go debating issues in an emergency!”. But if it turns out the policy followed was wrong and harmful, as it likely will, the debate would have been worth it. Instead, these world-class scientists, famous epidemiologists, feminine Stanford, Oxford and Harvard, were silenced, dismissed as “fringe epidemiologists”. A scandal right there.
Anyway, listed and judge. In my view, following it all closely as a layperson, they had it right.
