Covid: Let's also consider the measured alternate POV from doctors and scientists

 I think it should be said at the outset we don't get to see this alternate POV on conventional media sources. And we might also want to notice and keep in mind conventional media has been a little bit hysterical, and sometimes more than a little. When the alternate POV breaks through as it did with the Great Barrington Declaration, and if one is really familiar with what these virologists, epidemiologists, and public health scientists are saying, it quickly becomes obvious this POV is misrepresented.

As just one example, they do not say not to wear masks. They are not devoid of common sense...if the disease is respiratory we would obviously rather filter the air we breathe.

What they are saying is collective damage to human health from the virus is greatly exacerbated by lockdown. And they are insistent this POV is completely apolitical. It occurs to me if the pandemic had come at the beginning of a presidential term, with a president who was him or herself a calming influence, we would not have seen near the levels of hysteria about the pandemic. The virus doesn't care who the president is. We've conflated political hysteria, which was present before the pandemic, with a medical emergency, resulting in off the chart levels of "social hysteria disorder" (if I may coin a term).

Let's remember that "herd immunity" is not some kind of dirty word (as media would have us believe), it is simply the biological mechanism by which all epidemics and pandemics are eventually terminated. It can happen organically as people are exposed to the virus, and it can happen via the "viral mimics" in vaccines, and some combination of the two. We are led to believe the only mechanism by which pandemics are halted is via vaccines. If that were true it's very unlikely our species "sapiens" would have survived the 100,000 years of our time on the planet leading to the discovery of vaccine technology 200 years ago. 

Let's also remember that cases can go up while pandemic mortality goes down. And as I write cases are going up, we have to continue to be careful and use good common sense: wear a mask in doors and close quarter out of doors, wash your hands frequently, and keep a social distance from others.

Here's a conversation between an emergency room doctor who was in the thick of it, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. Since it is literally impossible to find a fair and balanced consideration of these views in conventional media we may want to hear what at least one of the experts holding this point of view has to say.