An Alternative to Lockdowns: Declaration Offers Trump a Chance to Lead on ‘Science’

It’s baseless to assume that the benefit of lockdowns outweighs their harm.

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A “closed” sign hangs in a local park in Exchange Place, N.J., with Lower Manhattan in New York City visible in the distance, April 25, 2020.

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On October 4, Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff, Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta, and Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya gathered at Great Barrington, Mass., to pen a declaration that, in just five days, has gained some 15,000 signatures from doctors and health scientists. The declaration calls for a smart alternative to the lockdowns and social-distancing rules that Joe Biden insists are based on “the science.”

Other experts have been quick to offer criticisms, of course. But that’s how science works. It rarely speaks with one voice. And this is why the declaration matters: It snatches the science card from Biden and everyone else who claims the science should dissuade us from returning to normal life.

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Jay W. Richards

Jay W. Richards is author of The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines. He’s an assistant research professor in the Busch School of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and executive editor of The Stream.

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