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<\/p>\nby Selwyn Duke
\nNew American<\/p>\n
As figures such as Dr. Anthony Fauci recommend months of lockdowns that threaten to exterminate much of our economy, yet another expert has weighed in essentially saying that this course offers all risk and no reward. In fact, epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski stated that lifting the lockdowns would cause the Wuhan virus to be \u201cexterminated\u201d in weeks.<\/p>\n
Dr. Wittkowski, the former longtime head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City, made his comments in an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with The Press & The Public Project (PPP) at the start of the month.<\/p>\n Wittkowski maintained \u201cthat the coronavirus could be \u2018exterminated\u2019 if we permitted most people to lead normal lives and sheltered the most vulnerable parts of society until the danger had passed,\u201d\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0College Fix<\/i>.<\/p>\n \u201cWith all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity,\u201d Wittkowski\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the PPP. \u201cAbout 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won\u2019t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children.\u201d<\/p>\n This is not conjecture. For example, consider that among 60 blood donors in\u00a0one northern Italian town<\/a>,\u00a040<\/i>\u00a0tested positive for Wuhan virus antibodies \u2014 meaning, they\u2019d contracted the disease\u00a0but had no symptoms and are now immune<\/i>. Moreover,\u00a0one study holds<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0half of Britain was already infected<\/i>\u00a0with the virus in late March already.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, it\u2019s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible,\u201d Wittkowski continued, \u201cand then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated.\u201d<\/p>\n Wittkowski said earlier in the interview that children should \u201ckeep going to school and infecting each other.\u201d This may sound odd. But it\u2019s precisely what\u2019s done, purposely, at \u201cinfection parties<\/a>\u201d \u2014 events where parents purposely expose their children to, let\u2019s say, a chicken pox-infected kid \u2014 to develop group immunity and avoid more serious disease-related issues later in life.<\/p>\n (I don\u2019t support this, mind you. There\u2019s a difference between proactively infecting your child with a disease and what Wittkowski is proposing: letting life continue and nature take its usual course.)<\/p>\n American Thinker<\/i>\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0Wittkowski\u2019s position very well today, writing that when \u201cthe percentage of people who\u2019d been infected, recovered, and gained immunity got high enough, there would no longer be enough carriers for it to spread.\u00a0So even those who hadn\u2019t acquired biological immunity nonetheless would become protected through\u00a0herd immunity<\/i>.\u201d (Wittkowski\u2019s PPP interview below.)<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg<\/a><\/p>\n Wittkowski also claimed that, insofar as combating the disease at the society-wide level goes, \u201csocial distancing\u201d won\u2019t be effective because you can\u2019t completely stop the spread of a respiratory disease. \u201cIt will go slowly, and so it will not build up herd immunity, but it will happen,\u201d he warned. \u201cAnd it will go on forever unless we let it go\u201d (i.e., take its course).<\/p>\n Asked about our common policy of \u201ccontainment\u201d or \u201csheltering in place,\u201d Wittkowski said that people are trying to \u201cflatten the curve.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t really know why,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut, what happens is if you flatten the curve, you also prolong, to widen it, and it takes more time. And I don\u2019t see a good reason for a respiratory disease to stay in the population longer than necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n But \u201cwhy\u201d may be simple: Some health experts admitted early on that the lockdowns wouldn\u2019t stop the disease. The idea\u00a0was<\/i>\u00a0to slow the spread \u2014 and thus prolong the outbreak\u00a0by design<\/i>\u00a0\u2014 so that our hospitals wouldn\u2019t be \u201coverwhelmed.\u201d The issue?<\/p>\n Our hospitals have been \u201cunderwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n This is good news, of course. But also news is that the models predicting an overwhelmed healthcare system have been underwhelming, to say the least. As Fox News host Tucker Carlson\u00a0discussed<\/a>\u00a0yesterday evening (video below), they have, in fact, fallen flat.<\/p>\n