Jay Bhattacharya is one of the few heroes to emerge from that society-wide misadventure we call “Covid”. A professor of health policy at Stanford, he was one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. It urged adherence to longstanding pandemic plans that emphasized the isolation and protection of the most vulnerable, rather than locking down society at large. He also conducted, with colleagues, the first seroprevalence study of the virus that causes Covid, in nearby Santa Clara county. It revealed that infection was widespread. This was crucial information, as it indicated that, despite widespread infection (estimated by them at 53,000 people), the vast majority of people were not having a significant enough health crisis to show up as a “confirmed case” (of these there were 1,200). This gave us a measure of how dangerous the virus was.
For these contributions, Jay was attacked by every organ of the Government/ Big Science complex that meters out status and funding to its own loyalists. Fauci and Francis Collins, in private emails, called for a smear campaign against him and a handful of other “fringe epidemiologists” at backwater, fringe universities such as Harvard and Oxford. His own institution of Stanford hung him out to dry. Yet he never backed down, and has been vindicated on every particular.
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