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Come on, Jeffrey Tucker and Great Barrington Declaration, just admit you were wrong

Admit you were wrong?
Why does this post feature an image of Taylor Swift? Simple. The article by Peggy Noonan that so triggered Jeffrey Tucker was about, of all things, how great Taylor Swift is and how she should be TIME's Person of the Year.

In response to an article praising Taylor Swift, Jeffrey Tucker demands that Peggy Noonan “admit she was wrong” about COVID-19. Hilarity ensues.

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Martin Kulldorff promotes an old antivax narrative about “natural immunity”

Martin Kulldorff
Martin Kulldorff strenuously denies being antivaccine while spouting antivaccine talking points.

Great Barrington Declaration author Martin Kulldorff, who is also the “scientific director” of the Brownstone Institute, a public health science denialist right wing “think tank,” is promoting an antivax narrative about “natural immunity” against COVID-19, because of course he is.

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The Great Barrington Declaration never would have worked

Great Barrington Declaration authors Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic in front of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington. (Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattarcharya.)

A new paper provides yet more evidence that the “let COVID-19 rip” strategy behind the Great Barrington Declaration would have made the pandemic even more disastrous than it has already been.