Fauci and the Barrington Declaration

The GRID

In this Episode of The GRID, host Chris Kuhlmann examines the Barrington Declaration, a document published by numerous highly educated, highly experienced doctors and scientists that spells out a public strategy for managing the pandemic and the nation back to recovery from COVID-19; comparing the credentialed leadership offered in the declaration to the leadership and credentials of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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Host: Chris Kuhlmann

Written by: Chris Kuhlmann

Produced by: Shaun Griffin

Music composed by JD Kuhlmann

Art: Shaun Griffin

Sound: Chris Kuhlmann and Shaun Griffin

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SHOW NOTES - Fauci and the Barrington Declaration

www.gbdeclaration.org

As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

By the way, those are not my thoughts, those are the thoughts of the Great Barrington Declaration. It was signed at American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Authored by 3 physicians and co-signed by 43 individuals worldwide. While many pulling the puppet strings would have you believe that medicine and science are 100% unified in the approach the US has taken, that is far from the truth.

I’m not talking about mere intellectual lightweights either. Here’s the quick bios on the 3 authors:

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.

What about the co-signers? Again, 43 cosigners from 9 countries?

Canada

2

England

11

Germany

6

India

1

Israel

5

New Zealand

2

Scotland

4

Sweden

2

US

10

43

What about their expertise, surely these couldn’t hold a candle to Dr. Fauci, the Allergy & Immunology expert? Wrong again.

Professor of Genetics

1

Pediatrics

1

Clinical Ethics

1

Vaccine development

1

Hypertension Researcher

1

Mathematician

1

Education & Prevention

1

Hygiene & Environmental Medicine

1

Informatics

1

Biomedical Data Science

1

Malaria Researcher

1

Cellular Biology

1

Biophysicist

1

Structural Biology

1

Human Geography

1

Genomics

1

Medical Statistics

1

Autism Provider

1

Virology

1

Finance

1

Oncologist

2

Statistical Modelling

2

Biomedical Consultant

2

Infectious Disease Expert

3

Biostatistics

3

Microbiology

4

Public Health/Policy

4

Research/Scientist

4

Immunology

5

Medical Psychology/Psychiatry

6

Physician

10

Professor or Assoc. Prof of Medicine

10

Epidemiology

11

It's about time a group of physicians and experts unified to present common sense recommendations.

So what do you think? Does the Great Barrington Declaration deserve consideration given than 43 docs from 9 countries with expertise in 33 different areas have signed onto it?

Do you think it holds merit in the COVID world we live in?

Oh, I just realized, I forgot to read the very last line of the declaration. Silly me.

Here’s what it says:

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States. You might have guessed this anyway because of the reference to vaccine development.

That’s right, this wasn’t written last week, it was written in the early fall of 2020, more than 16 months ago. Yet the principles in it are as applicable today as they were then.

Clearly, this group is pro-vaccine and still they are against general universal lockdown policies. These aren’t the pundits on CNN or MSNBC or the NY Times, these are disease experts, physicians, professors, scientists, and researchers that have dedicated their lives to this type of work.

Here we are in 2022 and the information we continue to learn through court cases, FOIA requests, emails, etc., is that what has and is going on behind the scenes is more dark and sinister than we would like to believe. That’s not really the subject of this podcast. I don’t even have time to go into the latest news that it’s likely American funds were used in part to create the COVID19 virus.

The reason we are even talking about this is because states, particularly blue states are doubling down on their lockdown policies. California, NY, vaccine passports and the ability to even move around to and fro as an American is being limited. This just cannot be. There’s a reason that these states are losing congressional seats as large numbers of families are retreating to Florida, Texas and other states that have a more pro-freedom outlook on current state.

However, I digress. I think it is imperative anytime we do a podcast to also look at the biblical perspective when possible?

What has the Lord called us to do? Well certainly he has called us to seek him with all of our hearts? The challenge is that Leaders who are making public policy are often not like-minded in faith.

Did you know that Fauci just received the Humanist of the Year Award? That’s right, the American Humanist Association just awarded him October 2021 with the Humanist of the Year Award for 2021 and I quote “Dr. Fauci embodies humanist values, including his steadfast commitment to science, his demonstrated empathy and compassion for others and his overall direct approach,” AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt told Religion News Service in an interview. “He has demonstrated how powerful science and human values can be in saving lives over the past year. If there was ever an appropriate humanist of the year, he is it.”

In 2003, Dr. Fauci said that “I look upon myself as a humanist. I have faith in the goodness of mankind.”

And that’s why we should be worried, because the mankind he speaks of, the leaders in our government, those who pull the strings of policy and regulations have shown to be ever void of a belief in Christ and scripture.

What does the bible say about the goodness of mankind? Jeremiah 17:9 says “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”

This is a major construct of the difference view-points of mankind. One reason that we cannot rely on the “goodness” of mankind is that goodness is defined by the individual, right and wrong have become so morally relative that literally it changes with the election of every new leader.

This is why we need Christ. I’m pro-freedom, pro-democracy, and I’m not pro or anti vaccine. But when the leaders are desperately void of Christ it is impossible for Jeremiah 17:9 to not apply. Our hope is in Christ, we desperately need him because of our wicked hearts.

So our faith has to be in Christ and not the government, not the great Barrington Declaration. I believe in the declaration, subscribe to it’s philosophy, but my hope is found in Christ.

Folks, we need Jesus more than ever. I’m not talking about we need Jesus to come and deliver us, that’s a given. I’m talking that Fauci, our government, myself, all of us need Jesus because of our wicked hearts.

I’m also going to do something that I’ve never done before on this podcast. I’m going to pray for our key leaders, specifically, President Biden, VP Harris, and Anthony Fauci.

Lord, we are all desperately wicked because our hearts are inclined to selfishness, sinfulness, and self-preservation. It’s not just true of our leaders, it’s true of the human condition. Yet today, let us walk humbly as we lift up our leaders. We pray Father, that you would move on the hearts of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Dr. Anthony Fauci. We ask that you move on their hearts not to deliver us or produce an outcome that we desire, but we ask that you move on their hearts for two reasons 1) That they might become children of God and inherit your kingdom, that they would know your grace, your mercy, and that you would do a mighty work on their hearts to your glory. 2) We pray you would give them the supernatural Christ influenced wisdom to lead this nation in a way that glorifies you. To lead in a way that points to Christ in everything, that they would become ambassadors for you willingly or not. We pray this in the name of Jesus.