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Last April, two California doctors did a lengthy press conference to encourage political leaders and public health professionals to ease lockdown restrictions. Long before the Great Barrington Declaration, two frontline physicians, Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi, expressed concerns about the social and emotional costs of isolation and its physical health implications. After discussing the rise in mental health and abuse patients they were seeing, even in April of 2020, Dr. Erickson explained the effects of lockdown on the immune system. As I summarized his comments at the time:
Dr. Erickson explained that the immune system is actually built by exposure to pathogens. Coming in contact with viruses and bacteria in the environment fires the body’s system for fighting infection. Additionally, the normal flora, or good germs we have on and in us all the time, also drop when we isolate.
16 May 2021,
India suffocates and buckles at the knees under the worst wave of coronavirus the world has seen
We continue on the same yellow brick road to development, paying homage to the same model, which makes humanity much poorer and pushes our planet further away from reasonable and fulfilling living. Poverty, as defined by economists, has certainly fallen and fantastic things happen as a result of the great creative talent of human beings. The imbalance, however is far too great. The existential threats are enormous.
When the World Health Organization determined that the Covid-19 outbreak was a pandemic (March 11
th, 2020), globalization was in full swing, racism persisted, migrants were everywhere on the high seas, climate change was warming up the planet, declarations were crumbling and elections were on the agenda.
Mukul Kesavan | | Published 16.05.21, 12:36 AM
This coming Monday, people in England will be allowed into bars, pubs and restaurants. The federal government in the United States of America has issued new mask guidelines for the fully vaccinated, permitting them to go unmasked, even indoors, under most circumstances. Reading these headlines in Delhi is a bit like squinting at another planet.
I wish these aliens well but there’s a part of me that wants to tell everyone I know in these countries to mask up and order in instead of eating out. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a set of startlingly optimistic scenarios, one of which envisages deaths in the US in the low tens per week in September. Low tens. Official figures in India put the current deaths per day at around four thousand. Bhramar Mukherjee, professor of biostatistics and epidemio
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