New Incoming NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Catastrophic Failure of Lockdowns (2022)

This interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was originally released on EpochTV in April of 2022.

“They worked to create an illusion of consensus that didn’t exist … by working with the press and big tech to suppress the voices of scientists who disagreed with them.”

In this episode, we sit down with Stanford University professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. He’s a physician, epidemiologist, public health policy expert, and one of the three co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for focused protection of the most vulnerable, instead of crippling nationwide lockdowns.

Instead of protecting the elderly and immunocompromised—the people who faced exponentially higher rates of dying from COVID-19 than the young and healthy—lockdown policies protected the “laptop class,” the well-to-do, Dr. Bhattacharya said.

Lockdowns would ultimately devastate the poor, in America and around the world. In South Asia alone, lockdown policies killed an estimated 228,000 young children in the first wave of the pandemic, according to a U.N. report.

“This is the single biggest driver of inequality … in my lifetime,” says Dr. Bhattacharya.

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:00 - The Illusion of Consensus
0:00:27 - "Fringe Epidemiologists"
0:01:18 - 15 Days to Slow the Spread
0:02:08 - Flawed Models and Unintended Consequences
0:05:04 - Defining Lockdowns
0:07:11 - A Catastrophic Failure
0:08:23 - The Biggest Public Health Mistake in History
0:10:22 - Accusations of AIDS Denialism
0:14:16 - Marginalizing Dissenting Voices
0:18:15 - Focused Protection vs. Protecting the Laptop Class
0:20:48 - Trickle Down Epidemiology
0:25:28 - The Johns Hopkins Study
0:31:07 - Collateral Damage: Schools, Health, and Mental Health
0:40:15 - The Devastating Impact on Developing Countries
0:44:35 - Making Lockdowns a "Dirty Word"
0:46:09 - The Collapse of Trust in Public Health

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W9TC1Qa4fc