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Scientists and medical professionals increasingly oppose lockdowns

Finally some sanity is entering the broader scientific and medical community. They are finally looking at the data with a practical eye rather than being gripped by reactionary fear.

The Great Barrington Declaration, which was authored by Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford U and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard U, will hopefully bring more light to the enormous ills caused by lockdowns, especially upon the poor and young. It calls upon governments to find another approach and has been signed by 10,000 other scientific and medical professionals.

https://gbdeclaration.org/

Hopefully places like NY and CA, which have been choking their economies and their people for 7 long months now, will finally get the message. Soon many NY and CA school children will be hopelessly behind in their academic programs and many low income workers are becoming increasingly desperate and reliant upon the government for basic needs.

Here in FL we have had leaders who have understood these costs for months, which is why the state did not lockdown as hard as other places or maintain lockdowns for very long. The result is substantially less unemployment, kids going to school and sports, and overall a much healthier and happier state to live in. Our state budget is even showing relative health, unlike the unfixable devastation that CA and NY have wreaked upon their own finances. FL is what happens when committed leaders avoid giving in to herd panic and instead actually let the data guide them.