Steve Watson
\nSUMMIT News<\/p>\n
Stanford University\u00a0professor of medicine Jay Bhattacharya says that in years to come lockdowns will be looked back upon as the most catastrophically harmful policy in \u201call of history\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking on The London Telegraph podcast \u2018Planet Normal\u2019, Bhattacharya noted that government scientific advisors\u00a0\u201cremain attached\u201d to the policy of lockdown in spite of the total \u201cfailure of this strategy\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think that future historians will look back on this and say this was the single biggest public health mistake, possibly of all history, in terms of the scope of the harm that it\u2019s caused,\u201d said Bhattacharya.<\/p>\n The epidemiologist\u00a0added \u201cEvery single poor person on the face of the earth has faced some harm, sometimes catastrophic harm, from this lockdown policy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAlmost from the very beginning, lockdown was going to have enormous collateral consequences, things that are sometimes hard to see but are nevertheless real,\u201d Bhattacharya added.<\/p>\n He further noted that serious mental and physical illnesses have been basically ignored and \u201cwe closed our eyes to them because we were so scared about the virus and so enamoured with this idea that the lockdown could stop the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen:<\/p>\n