Thank goodness the author's "Great Barrington Declaration" was not implemented. Enough people died even without letting COVID-19 spread rampantly with no interv

Thank goodness the author's "Great Barrington Declaration" was not implemented. Enough people died even without letting COVID-19 spread rampantly with no interventions, and we now know that getting infected doesn't do much to prevent multiple infections, so the idea that we would reach herd immunity quickly seems problematic in retrospect (and, seemed problematic to a significant number of epidemiologists at the time). I'll point out two things, the author claims that tens of thousands of people signed the GBD. From Wikipedia: > While the authors' website claims that over 14,000 scientists, 40,000 medical practitioners, and more than 800,000 members of the public signed the declaration,[44][45] this list—which anyone could sign online and which required merely clicking a checkbox to claim the status of "scientist"—contains some evidently-fake names, including: "Mr Banana Rama", "Harold Shipman", and "Prof Cominic Dummings".[46][47][48] More than 100 psychotherapists, numerous homeopaths, physiotherapists, massage therapists, and other non-relevant people were found to be signatories, including a performer of Khoomei—a Mongolian style of overtone singing—described as a "therapeutic sound practitioner".[47] An article in The Independent reported that the false signatures put claims about the breadth of support in doubt.[48] Bhattacharya responded by saying that the authors "did not have the resources to audit each signature," and that people had "abused our trust" by adding fake names. Second, the author admits that he was not negatively punished by Stanford. Instead he felt "deplatformed". But no one is entitled to the right to speak, publicize, or foment on the behalf of their employer, or by using the resources of their employer. No one was stopping the author from publicizing his philosophy freely on his own and he is still gainfully employed to this day. His version of "academic freedom" means the university must support research and proselytizing that it founds noxious. I'm sure he's free to be a professor somewhere else more suited to his pursuits.