Emails released under a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that in 2020, the National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins instructed Dr. Anthony Fauci to carry out a “quick and devastating” takedown of The Great Barrington Declaration.
The Declaration was written by experts.
It was written by Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford, and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University, and, according to its website, more than 15,000 medical & public health scientists and over 45,000 medical practitioners signed onto it.
They advocated for herd immunity to stop the pandemic. They also pushed for “focused protection” for the most vulnerable populations over universal lockdowns.
The declaration addressed lockdowns.
“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,” they wrote.
They write that the “current lockdown procedures are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”
Suicides, child abuse, wife battering, bankruptcy, alcoholism, and drug addiction are going off the charts.
They also dealt with immunity, as science has known for decades.
“As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls,” the declaration continues. “We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity … Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.”
Collins and Fauci were opposed to the science they espoused.
In an email to Fauci dated Oct. 8, 2020, Collins torched the Great Barrington Declaration as the work of “three fringe epidemiologists” that “seems to be getting a lot of attention.”
“There needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises,” Collins told Fauci. “I don’t see anything like that online yet – is it underway?”
They exchanged several emails echoing the same angry response.
“So now I know what it feels like to be the subject of a propaganda attack by my own government,” Bhattacharya tweeted after the release of the emails. “Discussion and engagement would have been a better path.
So now I know what it feels like to be the subject of a propaganda attack by my own government. Discussion and engagement would have been a better path. pic.twitter.com/p5tqigdRgg
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) December 17, 2021
A Side Note…
The man in the clip below addressed the former head of the NIH, Fauci’s former boss, Dr. Collins. Collins actively silenced opponents of the vaccine early on. He was out with his wife when he was approached by the person angry over his wife, a test subject whom he believes Collins abandoned during the vaccine study.
Translation:
“Dr. Francis Collins, former Director of the NIH and superior to Dr. Anthony Fauci, is confronted about alleged injuries from COVID-19 vaccines while out with his wife.
“You, Ralph Baric, and Anthony Fauci deserve to sit in prison for the rest of your lives. There’s so much blood on your hands,” he says in the clip from Telegram, @DrDMartinWorld
🇩🇪 Deutsche Übersetzung
Dr. Francis Collins, ehemaliger Direktor der NIH und Vorgesetzter von Dr. Anthony Fauci, wird während eines Ausflugs mit seiner Frau auf mutmassliche Verletzungen durch COVID-19-Impfstoffe angesprochen.
„Sie, Ralph Baric und Anthony Fauci verdienen es,… pic.twitter.com/3T5A0JbhjD
— Verein WIR – Christian Oesch (@verein_wir) July 29, 2026
