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I invited a few other people in the region who had been writing anti-lockdown posts. The next weekend I met the man who would become a great friend over time: Martin Kulldorff.

I dropped him a note and invited him for dinner. I thought, wow, this must be the loneliest man in the world. In September, I was scrolling through Twitter and bumped into some posts by an epidemiologist at Harvard University. So it was throughout the whole country in various degrees. The one thing on everyone’s mind was avoiding this one pathogen that they could not see.

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This beautiful town - full of highly educated and mostly well-to-do people - had been stricken with a profound psychological malady that prevented them from looking at the data or thinking clearly about much else at all. When you did see people at the store, they shuffled like penitents at a medieval burial, covering their bodies in wool, wearing huge masks, gloves, and sometimes even goggles.īy then, I was fully convinced that insanity had been unleashed on the world. I was living in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Sure enough, by August the lockdowns were not only still in place, but disease panic was everywhere and worse than ever. There were oblique suggestions coming out of the White House that this disaster could last until August, which I simply could not fathom. My experience has convinced me that good ideas - strategically timed and placed - can make a huge difference in the world. It was one of the proudest moments of my life to be part of its appearance. It was this document that had a decisive effect in challenging the lockdown narrative and causing tens of millions to take a second look. The reference is to the Great Barrington Declaration that appeared on October 4, 2020.

That latter group is not given nearly enough credit.

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It was also brave scientists who dared risk their reputations and professional standing by speaking out for rationality and intelligence. It was parents who demanded the schools open during impassioned speeches at school-board meetings. It was business people who protested through letters and sometimes opened their shops in defiance. She further pointed out that it was not only the governors. Our poor friends in the UK, Canada, and Europe are still under the illusion that they are controlling the virus. As a result, the US as a whole beat most countries in the world in re-opening. The experience in these open states, with hospitalizations and deaths dropping after the opening, along with booming economies and a huge influx of new residents, essentially shamed the closed states into taking another direction. Their governors stepped up and did the right thing in giving citizens their rights. What actually drove the opening of the economy, she continued, were the red states of South Dakota, Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and others. She pointed out how preposterous it is that the New York and California governors are taking any credit for handling the crises properly. Laura Ingraham on her Fox television show in July 2021 correctly celebrated the re-opening of the US economy, so long as it lasts.