"Dr. Martin Kulldorff is one of the most qualified public health pandemic experts in the United States. As a prominent epidemiologist and statistician, Dr. Kulldorff has worked on detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks for two decades. His methods are widely used around the world and by almost every state health department in the United States, as well as by hundreds of people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Dr. Kulldorff prefers to keep the reasons private, but it’s hard to ignore that he placed himself in the crosshairs of the pandemic narrative early on in the “15 days to slow the spread” lockdown and has since paid the price. It’s quite something for a public health scientist at the top of his game to admit that “both science and public health are broken.”
“For some reason, a public official narrative was established, and you weren’t allowed to question it—which, of course, is very detrimental, both to the pandemic and how to deal with the pandemic..." said Kulldorff.
The Great Barrington Declaration was published by Dr. Kulldorff with Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya in October 2020. The declaration calls for a more nuanced approach to the one-size-fits-all restrictions that had been imposed on much of Western society. "The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, which is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk,” the declaration states. Conventional public health science had deemed it unnecessary and potentially harmful to close schools and small businesses, to impose masking on the general public, and to quarantine healthy people.
Dr. Kulldorff said the document wasn’t for the politicians, or scientists, or even the doctors—although thousands of each signed it. The most important audience was the public,” he said, “because it’s the public that ultimately will end these misguided public health policies. It’s the public, regular people, who are suffering the consequences. The key thing was to break the pretense that there was scientific consensus for these lockdowns—which there wasn’t.” Click HERE to read the full article.
