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The Lancet concluded decisively, “The evidence is very clear: controlling community spread of COVID-19 is the best way to protect our societies and economies until safe and effective vaccines and therapeutics arrive within the coming months.” Therefore, “Such a strategy would not end the COVID-19 pandemic but result in recurrent epidemics, as was the case with numerous infectious diseases before the advent of vaccination.” It argued that “there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection. On October 15, the British medical journal the Lancet issued a statement condemning the policy as “a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence.” The herd immunity strategy has rightly drawn scathing condemnations from the world’s premier public health organizations. It plans to allow additional hundreds of thousands of people to die amid a global resurgence of the pandemic caused by the premature abandonment of business closures and other efforts to contain the pandemic. Most importantly, the White House’s embrace of the document is a statement of intent for mass homicide.

The official embrace of herd immunity is an admission that the White House’s sabotaging of testing efforts, its failure to provide protective equipment and its misleading of the public were all deliberately designed to sacrifice human lives for the sake of the “economy.” Trump was asked at a televised town hall last night whether the policy of the administration was in fact “herd immunity.” He responded by making clear that it was, repeating again the mantra first proposed by the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman that “the cure can’t be worse than the problem itself”-that is, that there will be no return to restrictions on economic activity aimed at slowing the spread of the virus. That is because, from the standpoint of the authors of the article, mass infection, with its ensuing mass death, is a benefit to be sought. This is not an omission, it is deliberate. The document makes no mention of any public health measures to contain the disease, from testing to contact tracing to quarantine for the sick. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume.” Restaurants and other businesses should open. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed.

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It is, rather, a series of assertions constructed retroactively from the demand by US big business to abandon public health measures to contain the pandemic: “Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching.

The eight-paragraph declaration cites no scientific data and does not seriously attempt to argue its case. The declaration was developed in close coordination with Trump adviser Scott Atlas.

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This took the form of a public endorsement of the Great Barrington Declaration, a manifesto by the free market American Institute for Economic Research, which calls for the abandonment of all measures to contain the pandemic. This week, the White House officially embraced a policy of herd immunity in the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively declaring that the mass infection of the population is a positive good.