There was a similar, but not so severe dip in female life expectancy during this time. In 1990, the old Soviet Union fell apart, and its economy crashed into chaos, and life expectancy fell by between four and seven years. It did not return to that level until about 2011. We posed a significant problem for them, Bhattacharya says, because they couldn’t dismiss us as fringe. If you go to the World Bank website, and enter 'Life expectancy of Russian men', you will see that life expectancy at birth of Russian men in 1989 was 69 years. The Great Barrington Declaration has been signed by more than 920,000, including 46,412 medical practitioners and 15,707 scientists. Yes, CoVID-19 is cutting swathes through the elderly and vulnerable, but I don't think that we can simply shut down economic and commercial activity for an indefinite period and ignore the human costs of this course of action. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed the GBD, including tens of thousands of medical doctors and scientists. Video - Great Barrington Declaration Video From October 1-4, 2020, the American Institute for Economic Research hosted a remarkable meeting of top epidemiologists, economists, and journalists, to discuss the global emergency created by the unprecedented use of state compulsion in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The release of the GBD shattered the notion that there was a scientific consensus in favor of lockdowns. On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States, by: Dr. As someone who, by virtue of age (I won't be seeing 70 again!) is moving inexorably into the CoVID-19 cross-hairs, I take issue with those who sweepingly dismiss the Great Barrington Declaration " It's funded by those who seek to increase their own economic profits withous any consideration for the human costs of this pandemic." I don't know who is financially backing the project, but some of the signatories are not lightweights, and I don't think that they would knowingly align themselves with ruthless, swashbuckling rip-off capitalists. A year ago, on October 4, 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was released for support signatures to the public.
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